When something makes the front page of The New York Times\u2014below the fold\u2014 you know that it is \u201chot\u201d and \u201con trend\u201d. Thus, when Carol Vogel\u2019s article on the reinstallation of Tullio Lombardo\u2019s sculpture of \u201cAdam\u201d in the Metropolitan Museum after a twelve year study and conservation project (\u201cRecreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall\u201d) made the front page of The New York Times on Sunday November 9, 2014, conservation officially became \u201chot\u201d, dare we say \u201csexy\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When something makes the front page of The New York Times\u2014below the fold\u2014 you know that it is \u201chot\u201d and \u201con trend\u201d. Thus, when Carol Vogel\u2019s article on the reinstallation of Tullio Lombardo\u2019s sculpture of \u201cAdam\u201d in the Metropolitan Museum after a twelve year study and conservation project (\u201cRecreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After … Continue reading “Conservation is \u201chot\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}