Mellon Research Initiative: Events
Conservation and Its Contexts
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December 7, 2013
Organized by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
This session will examine the emerging interactions between conservation and associated disciplines. Art history, archaeology, ethnography, and other disciplines are absorbing aspects of the theory, practice, and rhetoric of conservation while conservation does the same from those disciplines. This multi-disciplinary symposium will examine this trend in terms of present practice, as well as from a historical perspective.
Speakers
Noémie Etienne, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Michael Gallagher, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Matthew Hayes, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Glenn Wharton, Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies, New York University
Organized by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
RSVP information:
This event is open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this event, please click here . Please note that seating in the Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. A reservation does not guarantee a seat in the lecture hall. We will provide a simulcast in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow.
Agenda
10:00am
Registration
10:30am
Introduction and welcome: Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
10:45am
Noémie Etienne, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Conservation and Art History: Shared Histories
11:30am
Break
11:45am
Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
The (uneasy) rise of the conservator
12:30pm
Break
2pm
Matthew Hayes, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Postmodern Turn in Contemporary Conservation
2:30pm
Glenn Wharton, Clinical Associate Professor of Museum Studies, New York University
Knowledge Production and the Destabilized Conservation Object
3:15pm
Break
3:30pm
Michael Gallagher, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painting Conservation and Treatment: Close Relatives or Estranged Friends
4:15pm
Discussion
5:00pm
Reception