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SPACE! ART! CONSERVATION!
All of my interests intersect here.
hyde or die
A conservator on Eva Hesse’s material choices.
Super fascinating looking into what conservators are facing regarding contemporary artists unconventional material choices.
Articles like this make me think that maybe some art isn’t to be restored, maybe they chose those materials for the precise reason that they do decay.
But you can’t really know, can you?
“We still have members of the community who will tell you that when they were children they would climb the towers (even though we wouldn’t allow this now) and treat it as the local jungle gym. Older members of the community remember being asked by Simon Rodia to collect broken bits of glass and miscellany, and they were paid for that activity.
For the many different constituencies down there it tends to be a meeting place. That for me illustrates the power of art, creating a neutral space where we can come together and negotiate whatever is going on with our community socially, culturally, economically, politically, etc.
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— Brooke Davis Anderson on the importance of preserving Watts Towers
CAIRO.- In this photo taken early Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, and made available Monday, Jan. 31, parts of unidentified mummies are seen damaged on the floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Early Saturday morning, looters entered from the glass dome on the roof of the museum with ropes with the intention to loot antiquities. Civilian and army soldiers surrounded the museum and detained several looters. According the Egyptian army and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, no items were stolen, but several were damaged.
» Specific Objections: Are Museums Getting Donald Judd Wrong?
This is an interesting story about conservation issues with contemporary minimalist sculptures touching on the difficulty of handling some pieces when the artist is no longer with us.
I saw a piece of his at the Denver Museum of Art and I think they did the piece justice. I wonder if Ballentine would agree?
