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2012 Annual Meeting: Frank Lloyd Wright and Midwest Modern Mason City, Iowa 10-14 October 2012 While early in his career, Frank Lloyd Wright began to design buildings that would have an international influence and have long been considered internationally significant as well as quintessentially American, he can also be examined as first and foremost an …

The final day of talks at the WAAC Annual Meeting did not disappoint. There was another great group of talks in the half day session that included practical information as well as papers that discussed larger ethical issues presented during certain conservation approaches. A talk by Wyndell Faulk (Concept to Fabrication: The Deniro Collection, “Men …

One of the things I’m most enjoying about the WAAC Annual Meeting is the variety of the papers that have been presented. I usually attend conferences that focus on my area of specialization or have to pick and choose which talks to go to maybe missing something that could be very interesting or relevant. The …

Restoration of a video installation, disaster response due to Texas wildfires, conserving a sandstone facade, cold storage of photographs, treating paper collections in 12 Alaskan museums and developing an architectural conservation plan for a university…those were just some of the topics presented today on the second day of the WAAC Annual meeting. Conservators from all …

For the last seven years, WAAC meeting attendees have eagerly anticipated what has become a staple event at the annual meeting, the Silent Auction. An idea conceived by conservator and former WAAC board member Beverly Perkins, the Silent Auction is usually held over two days of the meeting to raise money for a local organization …

Austin, Texas. This is where the 2011 Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC) annual meeting is being held and where I’ll be for the rest of the week (Oct. 19-22). I’m excited about being here. It’s my first time at a WAAC meeting and my first time in Austin. And I’ve only heard good things …

FAIC is pleased to announce a collaboration with Research and Writing to present two special online meetings in November 2011   On Tuesday, November 1, 12:00-1:30 pm ET (UCT -4:00) What a Good Contract Includes download more information here In this meeting, we will discuss: The five basic components of a well-written contract The role …

The Walters Art Museum has just opened an exhibtion which focuses on a 10th century copy of Archimedes’ writings, the parchment of which was scraped and reused for a prayer book in the 13th century. The October 17, 2011 issue of The New York Times contains an exhibit review by Edward Rothstein which plays up …

The Artists Documentation program founded by Carol Mancusi-Ungaro has received a $195,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will enable it to make the recordings of interviews available through the Menil Collection website( per The New York Times, October 14, 2011).

According to a short piece in the “Antiques” column of the October 14, 2011 issue of The New York Times, the anaylsis and treatment of Alfaro Siqueiros’ mural, “American Tropical” is nearing completion and an interpretive center for the mural will open next fall. Due to its controversial political subject matter, the people who commissioned …

After three decades of research, Gay Myers and Lance Mayer have published their book, “American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860″. Eve M. Kahn writing in the “Antiques” column of the October 14, 2011 issue of The New York Times gives the book high praise and tempts us with snippets.

Conservators (particularly those who work with contemporary art) know just how complicated it can be to fabricate, install and maintain an oversized work of art. An article in the October 8, 2011 issue of the New York Times, titled “How Do You Move a 340-Ton Artwork? Very Carefully”, provides the public with a glimpse into …

 During his first-ever trip to Haiti this summer, Yale conservator Mark Aronson couldn’t help but notice one of the more uplifting aspects of life in the earthquake-ravaged country: the ubiquitous presence of art… From “Yale Conservator Helps Restore Artwork in Haiti,” Yale News, October 5, 2011, by Susan Gonzalez To read more and view a slideshow …

On October 5th, architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron unveiled their design for the restoration of the Park Avenue Armory. Their concept involves the excavation of the layers of paint, plaster and wallpaper which have built up since 1881– to quote Herzog, to “explore the very act of transformation, the evolution of an important …

The Sunday October 2, 2011 arts section of the New York Times reproduces four photographs of x-radiographs that David Maisel took during a residency at the Getty Research Institute. The photos, part of a project entitled “History’s Shadow”, were produced by a process that involved manipulation of the tones and colors, and are presented as …