Getty Conservation Institute

This dynamic panel discussion explored how conservation can shape and expand access to museum collections. As museums worldwide place increasing emphasis on making their collections available, w...

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Artist Rodney McMillian transforms commonplace materials—such as vinyl flooring, bedding, and furniture—into visceral works that explore history, power, and lived experience. Through a wide-ranging...

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Drawing on a wide-ranging practice that includes painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance, Rodney McMillian interrogates political and social systems while embedding meaning into t...

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Full Lecture Title — Mechanical research applied to overall structural assessment of large archaeological wooden objects from the Viking age Presenter: David Hauer, Museum of Cultural History, Uni...

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Full Lecture Title — Advancing Our Understanding of the Chemo-Mechanical Response of Oil Paint(ings): an Integrated Numerical-Experimental Study Oil paintings age and degrade over time due to comp...

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Full Lecture Title — Mechanical Analysis of Restoration Protocols Using Digital Image Correlation: Application to Textile and Paintings Strip lining intervention on the Deploration of Christ, a ...

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Full Lecture Title — Invasive to Non-Invasive: Coupling DMA with DIC to interrogate the mechanical response of plastic composite objects during dynamic environmental management In this presentatio...

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Full Lecture Title — Evaluation of a Tear Mending by Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) and Analysis of the Impact of its Restoration on the Flatness of the Work When we restore a tear on an easel...

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Full Lecture Title — Invasive to Non-Invasive: Coupling DMA with DIC to interrogate the mechanical response of plastic composite objects during dynamic environmental management In this presentati...

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Presenter: Michal Łukomski

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Full Lecture Title — Complexity in the Hygro-Mechanical Behaviour of Wooden Panel Paintings: Undeniable Presence And Implications For Modelling and Conservation Much research has been devoted to s...

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Full Lecture Title— Materials Research @ IPI: Towards Informed Decision Making and TangibleOutcomes for Sustainable Preservation This presentation discusses the fundaments of the Image Permanenc...

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Full Lecture Title — Predicting the Long-Term Mechanical Behavior of Animal Glues Using Time-Temperature-Humidity Superposition Animal glues have extensively been used by craftsmen to artists. It ...

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Full Lecture Title — Long-Term Hygromechanical Effects of Freezing Treatment for Disinfestation of 18th-Century Wooden Sculptures This presentation investigates the hygromechanical effects of a di...

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Reliable prediction of early-stage damage--progression of defects or confirming certain predictions at an early stage--is a key discipline in cultural heritage research. The Acoustic Emission (A...

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Historic tapestry collections have been considered among the most significant forms of art from the 15th to 18th century in Europe. When on open display, tapestries are exposed to environmental f...

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Museums present an interesting array of problems related to the monitoring of the local environment, and the degree to which this environment affects the objects on display. These problems apply to...

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The mechanical aspects of canvas conservation and the study of the effects of conservation treatments require the quantification of material properties and mechanical behavior. However, mechanica...

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Computational models are becoming an increasingly larger part of predictive analysis and preventive conservation for cultural heritage. The Copenhagen painting model (Lee et al 2022) showed how a...

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Color is more than something we see. It is an effect on the visual system and in the brain, but it is also physically imparted on materials. Color is a specific kind of light, and it is also a resp...