{"id":360,"date":"2009-03-24T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/against_forgetting_-_the_conse\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:29:27","slug":"against_forgetting_-_the_conse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/against_forgetting_-_the_conse.html","title":{"rendered":"Against time – the conservation of art"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYT art critic John Russell<\/a> once called an oil painting a “vegetable construct that changes in time.” Conservation steps in to manage change, whether it evolved slowly or happened in a second. <\/p>\n

A case of the latter: Jeff Koons’ St. John the Baptist<\/em> probably cracked its arm during a short ride through Seattle from Artech<\/a> storage to the Bagley and Virginia Wright Exhibition Space in 2004.
\nProduced in an edition of three with an artist’s proof, Saint John<\/em> is from the 1988 Banality<\/i> series of large-scale, ceramic sculptures. <\/p>\n

Michael Jackson and Bubbles<\/em> from the same series is the largest porcelain sculpture ever made. Saint John<\/em> is a close second, at 56 inches high, 29 inches wide and 17 inches deep.
\nStory about the conservation efforts that left John<\/em> whole but with a scar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday night at Cornish College of the Arts<\/a> is a panel discussion with the overblown title, Eros-Bios-Thanatos: Conundrums in Conservation of Contemporary Art, <\/em>at 1000 Lenora Street, 7:30-9 p.m., 7th floor.<\/p>\n

The panelists are worth hearing: Mitchell Hearns Bishop from the Getty Conservation Institute & curator, Los Angeles County Arboretum;
\nNicholas Dorman, chief conservator, Seattle Art Museum;
\nClaire Gerhard, independent conservator, now in Seattle recently working at the Whitney, MoMa & Mozambique, and moderator Elizabeth Darrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYT art critic John Russell once called an oil painting a “vegetable construct that changes in time.” Conservation steps in to manage change, whether it evolved slowly or happened in a second. A case of the latter: Jeff Koons’ St. John the Baptist probably cracked its arm during a short ride through Seattle from Artech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}