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Unframed Blog
| Apr 11, 2017
… in Mexico City), the program, which includes research, conservation, exhibitions, programming, and conversations … shared that…
Unframed Blog
| Aug 11, 2014
… the students co-curated a virtual exhibition drawn from objects in LACMA’s encyclopedic collection. The exhibition, … wrote…
Unframed Blog
| Nov 20, 2018
… including paintings, textiles, sculptures, and decorative objects. While many artworks are manageable for a team of four to handle…
Unframed Blog
| Jan 05, 2010
… the Director’s Roundtable Garden, is an atypical one in the conservation world. It needs care not because it’s been … Bequest To…
Unframed Blog
| Nov 14, 2022
… Ancient Americas, and Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director, and Dr. Megan E. O’Neil, … result of an…
Unframed Blog
| Aug 08, 2016
… contains thousands of photographs, ephemera, and other objects from Polynesia. Among the many incredible works are … redwood…
Unframed Blog
| Dec 02, 2019
… 2, 2019 Madison Brockman, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation How closely do you look at a work of art? Detailed…
Unframed Blog
| Feb 13, 2012
… to Alison’s children. After discussing LACMA’s Watts Towers conservation efforts, we got around to talking about … The Towers are…
1976 | Gelatin silver print
to Senator Jesse Helms and other conservative forces who, in 1989-90, objected ...
1986 | Wood, metal, beads, pigment, string, and rubber
of pioneering Black assemblage artist Betye Saar and art conservator Richard Saar, ... range of art objects—all of which fueled her desire to create work ...
1985 | Wood, tin, shards and pigment
Black assemblage artist Betye Saar and art conservator Richard Saar, ... range of art objects—all of which fueled her desire to create work ...
1983 | Wood, lead, and rope
assemblage artist Betye Saar and art conservator Richard Saar, Alison Saar grew ... objects—all of which fueled her desire to create work reflecting what she has ...
1925 | Oil on canvas
Objectivity) exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1925. Among the twelve ... leanings, Schrimpf is considered part of the more “conservative,” predominantly southern German contingent of New Objectivity artists, due ...
circa 1934 | Oil on canvas
career. In Essays on Art he expressed his reverence for the simple objects ... to us. Things, objects, mutely cry to us: Touch us, taste us, feel us, see ... in his figure paintings, in his still lifes he remained conservative ...
negative 1976, printed 1990 | Gelatin silver print
and other conservative forces who objected to Mapplethorpe's posthumous ...
1976 | Gelatin silver print
was condemned by Senator Jesse Helms and other conservative forces who objected ...
6th century A.D. | Earthenware
sure that it was authentic. To hear conservator John Hirx explain ... ;></script> <object id="kaltura_player_1375240582" ... content="application/x-shockwave-flash"></span> </object> Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Mintz, ...
1912 | Oil on canvas
contemplation, or quiet examination of an object. Often, as in this painting ... fascination with an object that she holds in her hand. In these paintings Hassam ... delineation of form Hassam was more conservative in the window series than ...
circa 1900 | Oil on canvas
l’oeil as the sole aim of his art. In Harnett’s paintings, objects were ... before they were convinced that the objects they were seeing were painted, ... could affect an object rather than with the precise rendering ...
1916 | Oil on canvas
objects. Breckenridge often borrowed from Matisse the device of placing a painting or patterned hanging, here an altar cloth, behind the objects ... (1880-1952), and the two even used the same objects in their still-life ...
circa 1450 | Light yellow marble with black striations
object, while her raised right hand may have grasped its lower edge. She ... for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, 1984. Pal, ...
1925 | Oil on canvas
Henri’s portrayal of Ada Harrison is somewhat conservative, probably due ... With an emphasis on material objects and textures, academic artists immortalized ... with the objective detail of a photograph. Artists were now encouraged to leave ...
1899 | Oil on canvas
then, the painting is deeply conservative. But its essential modernity ... With an emphasis on material objects and textures, academic artists immortalized ... with the objective detail of a photograph. Artists were now encouraged to leave ...
1627 | Oil on canvas
(letter dated 22 April 1987, Reni object file, Department of European ... Ugo was appointed conservator of Rome in the years 1686, 1695, and 1704. ...