{"id":18852,"date":"2018-07-08T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2018-07-08T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T17:57:42","slug":"we-are-not-doing-enough-to-educate-the-owners-and-guardians-of-works-of-art-about-what-conservation-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/07\/08\/we-are-not-doing-enough-to-educate-the-owners-and-guardians-of-works-of-art-about-what-conservation-is\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not doing enough to educate the owners and guardians of works of art  about what conservation is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the story of the unfortunate restoration of a 16th century wooden figure of St. George from a church in Estella in Northern Spain began to appear in newspapers (see as an example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/spain-estella-church-statue.html\">\u201cBotched Restoration of a Statue in Spain Sets Off a Firestorm\u201d  <\/a>, by Mark A. Walsh, The New York times, June 27, 2018), I thought I would not write about it. After all, every article made the obvious comparison to the 2012 \u201cBeast Jesus\u201d restoration which was also carried out in Spain and suggested that all was not lost as this might end up boosting tourism in the town. But then I thought about how this is the latest wake-up call for the conservation profession. We are not doing enough to educate the owners and guardians of works of art  about what conservation is if, in 2018, church authorities will send a complex polychrome sculpture to a fix-it shop rather than to a professional conservator.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the story of the unfortunate restoration of a 16th century wooden figure of St. George from a church in Estella in Northern Spain began to appear in newspapers (see as an example \u201cBotched Restoration of a Statue in Spain Sets Off a Firestorm\u201d , by Mark A. Walsh, The New York times, June 27, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2018\/07\/08\/we-are-not-doing-enough-to-educate-the-owners-and-guardians-of-works-of-art-about-what-conservation-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are not doing enough to educate the owners and guardians of works of art  about what conservation is&#8221;<\/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-18852","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\/18852","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=18852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}