Join us for our third annual Ask a Conservator Day on November 4th, 2021. Last year's event featured fantastic conservation and preservation professionals demonstrating the incredible ways our community works to preserve cultural heritage, as well as sharing personal stories about their...
This past June I travelled to Minneapolis to help guide a pre-conference session titled “Long-term Expectations for the Care and Management of Public Art” at a meeting for the advocacy group the Americans for the Arts. The goal was to break attendees into smaller discussions where people could...
According to an article by Nina Siegal in the October 16, 2018 issue of The New York Times ( “Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’ to Undergo years of Restoration” ), when “The Night Watch” undergoes its first conservation treatment in more than forty years, the work—which will take several years-- will...
According to an article by Raphael Minder in the September 9, 2018 issue of The New York Times (" In Repaint Job, Virgin Mary Gets Turquoise Hair "), another artwork in a Spanish church has been given a restoration by an untrained (in conservation) churchgoer. Such unfortunate restorations seem...