{"id":18503,"date":"2018-04-05T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=18503"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:09:52","slug":"the-paintings-will-be-exhibited-in-a-soft-diffuse-light-that-simulates-the-light-in-which-they-were-painted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/04\/05\/the-paintings-will-be-exhibited-in-a-soft-diffuse-light-that-simulates-the-light-in-which-they-were-painted\/","title":{"rendered":"The paintings will be exhibited  in a soft, diffuse light that simulates the light in which they were painted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article by James Barron in the April 4, 2018 issue of The New York Times (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/03\/arts\/design\/met-museum-paintings-renovation.html\">\u201cMet lets in the  light\u201d<\/a>), after postponing it for decades, the Metropolitan Museum Is undertaking a $150 million dollar project to replace the skylights, ducts, pipes, and cables in its European Paintings Galleries.  Many of these hidden mechanisms which open and close to allow an ideal amount of light into the galleries have deteriorated to the point where they no longer function, leaving  some galleries too dark and others  with light levels that are higher than they should be. When the work is complete, the paintings will be exhibited  in a soft, diffuse light that simulates the light in which they were painted.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article by James Barron in the April 4, 2018 issue of The New York Times (\u201cMet lets in the light\u201d), after postponing it for decades, the Metropolitan Museum Is undertaking a $150 million dollar project to replace the skylights, ducts, pipes, and cables in its European Paintings Galleries. Many of these hidden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/04\/05\/the-paintings-will-be-exhibited-in-a-soft-diffuse-light-that-simulates-the-light-in-which-they-were-painted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The paintings will be exhibited  in a soft, diffuse light that simulates the light in which they were painted&#8221;<\/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-18503","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\/18503","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=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}