Conservation is “hot”

When something makes the front page of The New York Times—below the fold— you know that it is “hot” and “on trend”. Thus, when Carol Vogel’s article on the reinstallation of Tullio Lombardo’s sculpture of “Adam” in the Metropolitan Museum after a twelve year study and conservation project (“Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall”) made the front page of The New York Times on Sunday November 9, 2014, conservation officially became “hot”, dare we say “sexy”. The question we should be asking ourselves is how can we as conservators can make use of this current popularity to do serious outreach to the public.