In the arts section of the November 15, 2015 issue of The New York Times, Roberta Smith wrote about her visit with Museum of Modern Art sculpture conservator \u00a0Lynda Zycherman and what she learned from Lynda about the conservation research that preceded the opening of MoMA\u2019s Picasso sculpture show (\u201cArt \u2018CSI\u2019: Of Beauty Beneath Picasso\u201d). Smith wrote about seeing \u201chow a professional thinks through a work\u2019s being, tracks physical clues and subjects them to forensic scrutiny and scientific testing, with results that potentially yield new art historical knowledge\u201d. \u00a0All in all, Smith presented conservation in a wonderful light. However, while discussing how MoMA\u2019s conservators try to recreate artists\u2019 works to better understand them, she wrote, \u201cchief conservator Jim Coddingham had also tried to recreate Pollock drip paintings\u2014which made newly clear why many forgers start out as conservators\u201d\u2014a statement I find false (at least for American conservators) and insulting to the profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the arts section of the November 15, 2015 issue of The New York Times, Roberta Smith wrote about her visit with Museum of Modern Art sculpture conservator \u00a0Lynda Zycherman and what she learned from Lynda about the conservation research that preceded the opening of MoMA\u2019s Picasso sculpture show (\u201cArt \u2018CSI\u2019: Of Beauty Beneath Picasso\u201d). … Continue reading “A wonderful article containing an unfortunate insult to the profession”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13563","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\/13563","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=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}