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Conservation and its Contexts

A conference organized in conjunction with the Mellon Research Initiative

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th Street, New York City

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.

For a conference agenda click here.
This conference will be streamed live on this webpage.

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, Ph.D. 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 accomodate overflow.

About the Mellon Research Initiative
In March 2010 the Institute of Fine Arts was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a four-year project to examine the state of advanced research in the fields that are the primary components of the program at Institute of Fine Arts: art history, archaeology, and conservation. The aim of the project is to ask where these areas are going, what are the strengths in given areas of study, what do they require in terms of resources to pursue advanced research, how these resources are best managed, and how is learning best delivered in curriculum and training programs. The project acknowledges the Institute's leading role in these fields, but is also intended to review the IFA's current position, organization, and research activities and to suggest ways to enhance and to forward its leadership. For more information, please click here.

Upcoming 2013-2014 events of the Mellon Research Initiative:

February 1, 2014* | Digital Tools Workshop
Organized by Jonathan Hay, Deputy Director for Faculty and Administration; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

*Please note date change

February 28, 2014 | Is Contemporary Art History?
Organized by Robert Slifkin, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. For more information click here.

April 11, 2014 | Materiality in Japan: Making, Breaking and Conserving Works of Art and Architecture
Organized by Anton Schweizer, 2012-2014 IFA/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. For more information click here.

November 7-8, 2014 | From ‘Surface’ to ‘Substrate’: The Archaeology and Art History of Material Transfers
Organized by David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London