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Small but Mighty: Nano-Cellulose Applications in Photograph Conservation | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker

By Marissa Maynard

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some of the trickiest conservation treatments for photographs are in-painting and creating fills for missing emulsion. It is difficult to match the color and gloss that vary from photo to photo, and even when highly nuanced, these variations are perceptible to the human eye. As part of my Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the CMA’s conservation department, I am conducting research on the application of cast nanocellulose films in photograph conservation (fig. 1), which has the potential to expand treatment options for a wide variety of photographic materials in the CMA’s collection.

Figure 1. Maynard working on removing cast nanocellulose from
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Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022

By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art

Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time period, an artistic style, a theme, a person, and at times a blend of them all. The challenge is that we must convey that information within the well-informed parameters set by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s department of interpretation, which sets the museum’s standards for length and accessible content and language, among other important endeavors. As a curator, it is my job to provide factual and interesting information that has the potential to engage every visitor. This is no short order! Were we to place every line of research on the walls of the gallery, there would be no room

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Boston Globe: At the Portland Museum of Art, the gift of ‘Presence’

The museum celebrates a key photographic acquisition with options from the selection of Judy Glickman Lauder

By Mark Feeney Globe Staff
Updated November 15, 2022, 2:49 p.m.

This short article at first appears in the Boston World.

Richard Avedon, “Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan,night attire by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959.” RICHARD AVEDON/PORTLAND MUSEUM OF Art, MAINE, JUDY GLICKMAN LAUDER Assortment. © THE RICHARD AVEDON Foundation

PORTLAND — The top quality and wide variety of the pictures in any provided selection ascertain regardless of whether the assortment is worth searching at. That’s really clear. What’s considerably less apparent is that the character of the collector determines irrespective of whether that collection is value considering about. It is just one detail to seem at shots when they are in front of you. It’s rather a different to …

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Juxtapoz Magazine – Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock @ Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis

“It starts with trying… to make these sexual graphic cartoony sketches in my notebook, then abstracting that and producing it much more geometric, much more summary,” Loie Hollowell told Juxtapoz a handful of decades back. “I don’t know, I’m not an art historian, and I are unable to give a long description of what the history of abstraction is, but for me, these performs are portraits of particular ordeals.” That is a revealing explanation from the artist, that even in these paintings that she finalizes, the overall body elements and sexuality are not some form of Magic Eye situation. These designs turn out to be more and much more obvious that there is anything physical, practically direct in their representation.

The increasing star of modern day artwork, with representation by the hallowed Rate Gallery and exhibitions all over the planet, turns to drawing in Tick Tock Tummy Clock at the

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Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022

By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives

This summer time, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My operate involved many assignments, from updating metadata to scanning textbooks for the Web Archive, but significantly of my time was committed to digitizing artists’ collections in the archives. The first elements I scanned ended up John Paul Miller’s sketchbooks.

Miller (1918–2013) was a renowned Cleveland jeweler. Acquiring graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), he returned after Military service in Environment War II to be part of the school’s personnel as a professor. At the exact time, he began producing parts for local jewellery keep Potter & Mellen. Although Miller was qualified in industrial design and style and spent his profession targeted on jewelry, he also harbored a deep like for watercolor and produced equally photographs of his travels and a selection

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Masterpiece in the Subway, Trash in the Museum

 

Right here is how they examined it: To start with, they went out to thrift merchants, flea markets, and yard product sales and acquired a bunch of “insignificant” objects for an ordinary of $1.25 an object. Then, they hired a bunch of writers, each renowned and not-so-famed, to invent a story “that attributed importance” to each item. At last, they outlined each individual item on eBay, applying the invented stories as the object’s description, and no matter what they had initially compensated for the item as the auction’s beginning rate. By the conclude of the experiment, they had marketed $128.74 truly worth of trinkets for $3,612.51. They manufactured a financial gain of more than 2,700% of their expense simply just by crafting the right stories.

 

Learn to Seem Earlier the Context and the Story

 

Initial, if you can, in your own thoughts, shift beyond context, you can understand to see

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