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… No, you are not to touch it. The potato is part of a conservation experiment to determine how long it takes for a … Art of Two Germanys includes Sigmar Polke's Potato House Object (1967), and as neither the potato farmer Dorothea is … team's…

… are used. I spoke with Terry Schaeffer in LACMA's Conservation Center on the subject and she told me that U.S. … fluorescents emit more UV light, which can be damaging to objects. The decision to light via fluorescent or tungsten … that ensures a correct…

… meeting  with the director, curator, heads of exhibitions, conservation, construction services, and other involved … the positioning of the work in the actual space. Ephemeral objects Ephemeral objects under Plexiglas vitrine Ephemeral …

… difficulty of cleaning is compounded by the color of the object, black, which really shows dust from Southern …

… 24, 2018 Amanda Burr, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Paper Conservation Conservation This Japanese woodblock print, … to any exhibition or loan, conservators at LACMA assess an object’s condition and determine whether or not it will … that do not…

… of ancient Colombian ceramics. This large collection of 914 objects had been acquired from a private collector in 2007. … were also a number of challenges in working with these objects. First and foremost, the arts of ancient Colombia … possible I enlisted the…

… community is that proper protocol dictates that the objects be “welcomed” by the local indigenous people—in the … Kamalu du Preez, and Kama Moiha welcoming featherwork objects to LACMA, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA Cindi … and position the works. Below, Kamalu…

… project entails the students co-organizing a rotation of objects from the permanent collection around a theme, researching the objects, writing object labels and gallery text, determining … underrepresented minorities in curatorial, education, or…