An artist himself, Myers is an art conservator specializing in period frames and altar pieces. His deck has been spliced in half to resemble an altar and mounted in a gold frame. “Some of these boards won’t even look like skateboards,” he says. Artist Ryan Murray used the deck as a...
The Royal Society of London, where John James Audubon was a Fellow,displays our prints in Chicheley Hall, a 300-year-old estate in Buckinghamshire, England which serves as the International Science Conference Center. A paper conservator addressed the crumbling portion of an original Havell Wood Duc...
This month, with trepidation, my husband and I put a lovely Inuit watercolor into the hands of a conservator. Would she be able to remove all the mildew from life in a damp summer cottage? The results were nothing short of miraculous. At Artnet, Min Chen writes about a larger work of...
-The intricacy of the sitter’s braided hairstyle and the subtleties in the tones of her dark hair were revealed – the conservator could now pick out shades of aubergine and deep blue in her dark hair. -It brought out the clarity of the pearls in her hair, and how they are reflecting...
The process is time-consuming and mostly boring, but every now and then I discover a forgotten encounter. And, one such occasion was a presentation given by Bob Entwistle, Conservator at Christchurch Mansion, about this beautiful and intriguing black and gold japanned cabinet. ...
Winter women are those who bring into the next cycle what should be saved. They are the deep conservators of knowledge and power. Not for nothing did ancient peoples honour the grandmother. In her calm deliberateness, she winters over our truth, she freezes out false-heartedness. ...
These forms of rapid response are timely and meaningful. But I had to hunt for the above examples. Meanwhile, without my asking, my inbox is overflowing with a deluge of virtual museum tours, live-streamed opera performances, and digital educational resources. And it makes me wonder: is this...
The group then moved to explore Pollock’s materials and methods in a studio session with one of our painting conservators, considering how experimenting with materials and methods might enrich our understanding of the art work. Molleen Theodore, Associate Curator of Programs, leads staff in a ...
complicates the experience of viewing and interpreting a work of art. The group then moved to explore Pollock’s materials and methods in a studio session with one of our painting conservators, considering how experimenting with materials and methods might enrich our understanding of the art work...
How might critics’ reviews about exhibitions be meaningfully incorporated in gallery teaching? How would museumgoers react if asked to draw a work of art as perfectly as possible–the opposite of conventional wisdom in museum education? These are just a few questions that educators from cultural ...