A January 21, 2014 National Public Radio \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d piece focused on the \u201cL\u2019Arte Aiuta l\u2019Arte\u201d (\u201cArt Helping Art\u201d) program of the Italian Cultural Ministry in which the proceeds\u00a0from\u00a0\u00a0ticket sales for performances taking place at state museums and monuments are dedicated to the restoration of Italy\u2019s visual arts heritage. The public relations gimmick\u2014people can vote on Facebook for the one of eight works selected by the government\u00a0 which they feel is most deserving of restoration. The money raised from the performances will be used for the conservation of the contest winner. While this program may well make Italians more aware of their cultural heritage and inspire concern for its impending loss, does it not have the potential to turn cultural heritage into a popularity contest a la \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d or\u00a0 to induce general feelings of despair\u00a0 as for every work that receives treatment there\u00a0are\u00a0seven works of equal importance that will not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A January 21, 2014 National Public Radio \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d piece focused on the \u201cL\u2019Arte Aiuta l\u2019Arte\u201d (\u201cArt Helping Art\u201d) program of the Italian Cultural Ministry in which the proceeds\u00a0from\u00a0\u00a0ticket sales for performances taking place at state museums and monuments are dedicated to the restoration of Italy\u2019s visual arts heritage. The public relations gimmick\u2014people can … Continue reading “Is it a good idea to base conservation decisions on a popularity contest?”<\/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-9632","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\/9632","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=9632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}