There will be sessions of particular interest for conservators at the 2014 annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the College Art Association (CAA), both of which are to take place in Chicago in February—the CAA from February 12-15 and the AAAS from February 13- 17.
At the AAAS meeting on February 14th from 10:00- 11:30am there will be a session on “Preserving Our Cultural Heritage: Science in the Service of Art”, organized by Nicholas Bigelow and Leonor Sierra of the University of Rochester and from 1:00- 2:30pm there will be a session on “Reconstructing and Deconstructing Paintings: Innovations At and below the Surface”, organized by Francesca Casadio of The Art Institute of Chicago and Katherine Faber of Northwestern University.
At the CAA Meeting on February 12th from 12:30- 2:00pm there will be a “Learning to Look Workshop” on the technical aspects of Claude Monet’s Paintings to be held in the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago (which I have organized) and from 2:30- 5:00pm there will be a session on “Secrets of the Old Masters: Materials, Manuals, and Myths” organized by Kristin Renee deGhetaldi and Brian Baade of the University of Delaware. On February 15th at 9:00am, there will be a Public Art Dialogue on “Vandalism, Removal, Relocation, Destruction: The Dilemma of Public Art’s Permanence”, organized by Erika Doss of the University of Notre Dame.
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