Conservation students of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn conducted two interviews with artist Merike Estna as part of a four-day workshop given by Sanneke Stigter of the University of...
Call for Applications: Assistant Media Conservator
The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for the position of Assistant Media Conservator to work within the Media Conservation section of the David Booth Conservation Department...
Call for papers: Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s
Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s 2018 CAA | College Art Association, Los Angeles, Feb 21-24, 2018 - call for papers In the 1960s, the art world and its...
The Institute of Conservation (Icon) are pleased to announce that a 40th anniversary special issue of the Journal of the Institute of Conservation (Vol 40, no 2) is now available online with the print...
Call for papers: What is authentic about restoration?
Call for papers "What is authentic about restoration?" for an upcoming issue of Aesthetic Investigations focused on the philosophical implications of preservation, restoration, and conservation, as it...
Test samples Surface activity and contact angle measurement Contact angle measurements Surface activity after treatment Corona and atmospheric air plasma treatment Photo-oxidation Light stabiliser...
Photo-oxidation Polypropylene is highly sensitive to the incident UV part of the sun’s radiation in the region 290–400 nm, which is responsible for the radiation-induced polymer photo-oxidation (Al...
Popular polypropylene Chemical and physical properties of polypropylene Production process Degredation of polypropelene References Popular polypropylene Polypropylene (PP), a highly crystalline...
Wil (W.E.M.) Fruytier-van der Lande (1915–2007), one of the pioneers of modern art wall tapestries in the Netherlands, made most of her work in the period between 1950 and 1980. Internationally, Wil...