Two symposia that will be of interest to many conservators are scheduled to take place in the earlier part of 2017. On February 24-25, 2017, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Dallas with the participation of the Dallas Museum of Modern Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center will hold a symposium on “Artists’ Writing on Materials and Techniques” that will bring together art historians, curators and conservators to explore artists’ writings about materials and techniques and the relationship between artists’ textual and visual practices. On March 31- April 1, 2017, the History of Art Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will hold a symposium on the topic “Objects of Study: Paper, Ink and the Material Turn”. This symposium will bring together archivists, artists, conservators and curators to discuss how each discipline defines “materiality” and to draw up goals for object based study.
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