{"id":9405,"date":"2013-10-21T05:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2013-10-21T05:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:52:40","slug":"is-all-art-worth-preserving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/10\/21\/is-all-art-worth-preserving\/","title":{"rendered":"Is all art worth preserving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the October 18, 2013 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Clemens Bonsdorf \u00a0wrote about a preservation dilemma (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303759604579093533823266184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cNorway Debates Demolishing Picassos\u201d<\/a>). Norway\u2019s Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs has recommended the demolition of two Brutalist style buildings that were damaged by terrorist bombings in 2011. However, those buildings contain site-specific murals designed by Picasso and executed by Carl Nesjar. While some contend that the murals\u2014the first done by Picasso in that technique\u2014are of historic importance, others are of the belief that \u201cnot everything that Picasso created was great and the works Nesjar applied for Picasso are not worth keeping\u201d. It is doubtful that anyone believes that every work of art ever created is worth preserving. The question is who gets to decide which works are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the October 18, 2013 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Clemens Bonsdorf \u00a0wrote about a preservation dilemma (\u201cNorway Debates Demolishing Picassos\u201d). Norway\u2019s Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs has recommended the demolition of two Brutalist style buildings that were damaged by terrorist bombings in 2011. However, those buildings contain site-specific murals designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/10\/21\/is-all-art-worth-preserving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is all art worth preserving?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":9505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","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\/9405","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=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}