{"id":11789,"date":"2015-01-04T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:01:09","slug":"after-more-than-a-decade-will-this-be-the-time-when-its-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/04\/after-more-than-a-decade-will-this-be-the-time-when-its-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"After more than a decade, will this be the time when it's restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Kristina Peterson writing in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 (\u201cCalder Sculpture Triggers Heavenly Debate in Washington<\/a>\u201d), there is a debate going on among U.S. senators over whether the sculpture that fills the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building– \u201cMountains and Clouds\u201d fabricated after a design by Alexander Calder\u2014 should be restored so that its mobile elements will once again be operational. This situation raises a number of thoughts about the factors that go into making the decision to conserve a work of art. Among them: What has to change for a work to get treatment if it has been left in a damaged condition for more than a decade? If many of the people who will involved in making the decision about appropriating money for its treatment dislike a work, will it have a chance of being treated? Would it make a difference if the work were thought of as being \u201cby Calder\u201d rather than being \u201cafter a design by Calder\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Kristina Peterson writing in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 (\u201cCalder Sculpture Triggers Heavenly Debate in Washington\u201d), there is a debate going on among U.S. senators over whether the sculpture that fills the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building– \u201cMountains and Clouds\u201d fabricated after a design … Continue reading “After more than a decade, will this be the time when it's restored”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","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=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}