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Was “Night” was treated by conservators or did she spend a day at the salon?

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 19 days ago
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An obituary that takes up more than half a page of The New York Times! Conservators are getting some respect!

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 04-09-2021
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A detailed, slightly horrifying, and (we hope) exaggerated description of how a painting was cleaned in England in the later 19th century

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 03-12-2021
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If the mural is broken into sections, has the artist’s conception really been preserved?

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 03-07-2021
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Does this sound like a future France-based version of the Getty Research and Conservation Centers?

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 02-23-2021
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Conservation article on pigments in the Style not Science Section

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 02-10-2021
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The Times got the terminology right

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 01-29-2021
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She is no longer willing or able to maintain the detachment she long believed was expected of a conservator

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 01-25-2021
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Cringe, but contemplate the diverse museum staff and the “ extraordinary vision of who we could be in the future

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 01-15-2021
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Our monuments, institutions and values are all vulnerable and must be constantly cared for

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 01-11-2021
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Is it possible that these disastrous failed restorations are brought to the press' attention in order to raise public demand for regulation of the field?

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 11-12-2020
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It is good to know that something exists which can hold back the flooding of Venice

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 10-07-2020
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Creating a sculpture from parts of a number of other sculptures is not equivalent to reconstructing a broken sculpture from its fragments

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 10-07-2020
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Call for papers 2021 College Art Association Meeting Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association session

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 09-09-2020
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Call for Papers 2021 College Art Association Annual Meeting session "Art's Undoing: Impermanence, Degradation, and Destruction"

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 08-14-2020
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Call for Papers 2021 College Art Association Anual Meeting session "Art's Undoing: Impermanence, Degradation, and Destruction"

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 08-14-2020
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Do they believe that highly skilled conservators work for minimum wage?

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 06-25-2020
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An entire article devoted to one of their materials. Conservators interested in public outreach should be pleased .

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 05-07-2020
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Kudos to the conservator for being the one to provide concrete data that can be used to develop the new guidelines

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 05-07-2020
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These days, not only is she a conservator of objects, she is also a conservator of fish

By Rebecca Rushfield posted 05-03-2020
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