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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 17:30:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wendy Watson <[log in to unmask]>
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Cc: Wendy Watson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Conservation Symposium in NYC
 
Thought people might be interested in having information about a
symposium on art conservation that is coming up next month:
 
 
 
Symposium:
The Mortality of Things:  Issues in Art Conservation
at The Equitable Center
787 Seventh Avenue (at 51st street)
New York, New York
Saturday, November 12, 1994
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
 
A symposium presented by the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and The
Equitable Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition, Altered States:
Conservation, Analysis, and the Interpretation of Works of Art, organized
by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, which will be on view at the
National Academy of Design from 5 October through 27 November 1994.
 
 
Morning
 
9:30   Coffee and check-in at the Equitable Atrium under the Roy
Lichtenstein Mural
 
10:00  Welcome
 
10:05  Joyce Hill Stoner
        Director and Chair of Art Conservation
        University of Delaware/Winterthur
        Newark, Delaware
        "The Mortality of Things"
 
10:30  James Martin
        Associate Conservator of Paintings and Research Associate
        Williamstown Art Conservation Center
        Williamstown, Massachusetts
        "Science and the Art of Conservation"
 
11:00  Arthur Beale
        Director of Objects Conservation and Scientific Research
        The Museum of Fine Arts
        Boston, Massachusetts
        "Defining the Intent to Deceive: Conservators and
        Scientists as Art Forgery Detectives"
 
11:30  Antoine Wilmering
        Conservator of Furniture
        The Metropolitan Museum of Art
        New York, New York
        "A Renaissance Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, Italy:
        An Overview of the Conservation Treatment"
 
 
12:00  Break for Lunch (a list of restaurants will be distributed)
 
 
Symposium program, page two
 
 
 
Afternoon
 
1:30  Margaret Holben Ellis
        Chairman
        Conservation Center
        Institute of Fine Arts
        New York University
        New York, New York
        "The Impact of Technology on the Production and Preservation of
Twentieth Century Art"
 
2:00   James Coddington
        Senior Painting Conservator
        Museum of Modern Art
        New York, New York
        "All Good Pictures Crack: Practical Theories of Conserving
        Contemporary Art"
 
2:30  Stephen Mellor
        Chief Conservator
        National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
        Washington, DC
        "Treatment of African Art as a Reflection of Collecting History"
 
3:00  Tom Branchick
        Director of Paintings Conservation
        Williamstown Art Conservation Center
        Williamstown, Massachusetts
        "Under the Influence: Art in Public Places"
 
3:30  Questions and Final Remarks
 
 
 
Wendy Watson
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum