Does art want to be conserved?
Several months ago, WJT Mitchell from the University of Chicago delivered a lecture and a follow-up seminar at the Stanford art department which discussed part of his book: What Do Pictures […]
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Protecting Patina on “Large Torso: Arch”
Henry Moore’s “Large Torso: Arch” is one of the many bronze sculptures we have in the collection here at Stanford. Like most bronzes, it has a chemical patina that was […]
Johann Joaquim Winckelmann
I was excited to learn in Ivy’s recent post about her exhibition “True Colors” that Johann Joaquim Winckelmann was partially responsible for spreading the myth about the whiteness of ancient […]
