As part of the Mellon Research Initiative of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Jim Coddingto, Chief Conservator of The Museum of Modern Art has organized a conference on “Conservation and Its Contexts” which will take place on Saturday December 7, 2013 between 10am and 5pm. The conference will examine the emerging interactions between conservation and associated disciplines including art history, archaeology, and ethnography. The speakers will be Noemie Etienne, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts; Michael Gallagher, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fernando Dominquez Rubio, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, UC-San Diego; and GlennWharton, Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies, NYU.
For those who cannot attend in person, the conference will be streamed live at http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/livestream.htm
Conference on "Conservation and Its Contexts" to be streamed live
