ICOM-CC is inviting contributions for its 18th Triennial Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 4–8 September 2017. The deadline for abstracts of prospective papers is 15 April 2016. Contributions from...
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been awarded the biennial Forbes Prize for conspicuous services to...
Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shirting Perspectives (2014)
INCCA members Pip Laurenson and Vivian van Saaze contributed a chapter in the book Performativity in the Gallery on Collecting Performance-Based Art. Full reference is: Laurenson, P. and Saaze, V. van...
Artists working with video, audio, and digital materials face unique challenges. Conventional archival practices for electronic media don't always take into account the need for artists to maintain...
Art technological journal ‘Die Technischen Mitteilungen für Malerei’ online
For six decades starting from the 1880s the ‘Die Technischen Mitteilungen für Malerei’ (TMM) (Technical Journal for Painting) described the development of painting materials and techniques. The...
CAPS workshop 2016: Workshop on cleaning acrylic painted surfaces
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) is pleased to announce Cleaning of Acrylic Painted Surfaces 2016 (CAPS 2016), July 12-15, 2016, at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida...
The Explicit Material: On the Intersections of Cultures of Curation and Conservation
Session of the 104th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA) Washington, D.C. The "explicit material" approach wishes to advance a way of thinking about the materiality of objects as...
This event is free and you do not need to sign up to come. If you do have questions however please contact: Angela Matyssek via email: matyssek@staff.uni-marburg.de Seit den 1960er Jahren entstehen...
Meeting: Expression and Sensibility. Art Technological Sources at the Rise of Modernity
INTERIM MEETING OF THE ICOM-CC WORKING GROUP ART TECHNOLOGICAL SOURCE RESEARCH CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th symposium of the ICOM-CC working group Art Technological Source Research will be held at the...
Since the discovery of metal soap-related degradation phenomena in paintings at the beginning of this century, two topic-related conferences were held, the De Mayerne Day Amsterdam in 2005 and the...