The Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative is a program started by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). It began in 2007 in response to the...

The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) is an independent charity that champions the collecting of outstanding contemporary art and craft for UK museum collections...

both works of art and of curiosité, dimly echoed in the English curios, and the origins in Paris, Amsterdam and London of the modern art market have been...

community, and nationality. In English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms modern art and contemporary...

Hutchings, Rich and Marina La Salle. 2015. Why Archaeologists Misrepresent Their Practice—A North American Perspective. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology...

Freeman's (1805) and Lyon & Turnbull (1826). By the end of the 18th century, auctions of art works were commonly held in taverns and coffeehouses. These...

energy costs, and minimise the use of toxic or harmful solvents. A number of research projects, working groups, and other initiatives have explored how...

their research. Archivists' duties include acquiring and appraising new collections, arranging and describing records, providing reference service, and preserving...

management (CRM) is the vocation and practice of managing heritage assets, and other cultural resources such as contemporary art. It incorporates Cultural Heritage...

showed them. By putting new roofs on the buildings, rebuilding foundations, and resealing glass that is in window frames, the State is able to keep buildings...

Many art museums have curators dedicated to specific historical periods and geographic regions, such as American art and modern or contemporary art.[citation...

critics from the architectural profession and related professions assume that modern urban design and contemporary architecture are an expression of social...

Fakes, Forgeries and Trickery, a virtual museum exhibition at Library and Archives Canada An example of overpainting in the contemporary still life painting...

sonar and radar tests, core samples of the wall, infrared cameras, and x-rays. The Superintendent appointed Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, a respected art restorer...

depicting Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and style are typical of traditional Catholic art. While press accounts agree that the original painting...

the Museum of Sydney (in Sydney, Australia), where the remains of drains and privies are shown in their original context, along with other archeological...

Künste Bern Fratelli Alinari Studio Art Centers International, Florence (SACI) Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum The International master...

com/pdfdoc/papersave/papersave-swiss-brosch_en.pdf[permanent dead link‍] Anders, Manfred. "Mass Deacidification — Conservation for Libraries, Archives und...

activist, Upper West Side of Manhattan) John Ruskin (1819/20–1900) British art critic, watercolorist, social thinker, philanthropist) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc...

or a search for causality. In the United Kingdom, the Natural and Environmental Research Council provides funding for archaeometry separate from the funding...

among different libraries, and copyright law. However, many of these problems are being solved through educational initiatives. Educational programs are...

significance, a registrar must take the initiative to study the museum's collection. They must be calm, flexible, resourceful, and focus on the details. Registrars...

composition. However, modern conservation seeks to treat books and paper as little as possible. Peter Waters, considered the father of modern book conservation...

Examination and Preservation of Works of Art, that the modern approach to inpainting was established. Helmut Ruhemann (1891–1973), a German restorer and conservator...

documentation, such as Donor and Provenance Questionnaires and research files pertaining to the object's history or context/art historical significance are...

sources, such as the George Eastman House, the archives of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Fox Movietone News film archives at the University of South Carolina...

Italy during the Napoleonic period. Another method, used by Hacquin's contemporary, Jean-Michel Picault, dissolved the ground layer chemically, apparently...

restoration of torn paintings by reweaving individual threads. Conservation and restoration of paintings WAAC newsletter: "Conference Review: Rissverklebung...

and migration to a language-neutral format like XML. Preservation of digital resources is of a paramount importance for deposit libraries, research libraries...

museums and art gallery collections. The term is more frequently used in Canada and Australia where it refers to works of art, rituals, ceremonies and aural...