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By Rob Lewis ACR, Collections Care Manager, Birmingham Museums Trust Lizzie assesses stained glass on display. Part of Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) is home to the largest public Pre-Raphaelite collection in the world, numbering over 3000 paintings, drawings, prints and examples of decorative art and design. Toward the end of 2019, BMAG

By Lisa Conte, Head of Conservation, National September 11 Memorial & Museum Fig. 1 “New York Metamorphosis”, Courtesy of Dwight Primiano. New York Metamorphosis, a large-scale charcoal drawing on paper created by Norwegian-born artist Torild Stray, was acquired by the 9/11 Memorial Museum in 2017. Stray created the 60 in x 168 in (152.4 cm

By Albert Lewis, Preparator at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Tru Vue 6mm Optium Museum Acrylic® oversized sheets have enabled the ideal combination of viewing experience and protection for the large scale, scroll mounted ink paintings in Ink Worlds, a special exhibition of contemporary ink paintings from 1960 to the present at the Cantor Arts

Following its recent conservation, updated framing and new glazing, the Japanese screen “Pine Tree with Pheasants and Ducks” returns to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Drafting Studio at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. A National Historic Landmark that was once Wright’s home and architectural studio, Taliesin houses an extensive collection of works that he purchased throughout his

By Cuong T. Nguyen, Minoo Larson, Erin Murray Mathematica: A World of Numbers…and Beyond is a permanent exhibit at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation at The Henry Ford (THF) that opened on September 23, 2017. The exhibit contains both kinetic and static representations of mathematical ideas from the 20th Century American designers Charles and Ray Eames. There are

By Ramon Diaz, project manager at Sectis Design When art is (literally) money, Tru Vue® preserves value(s) When a major Washington, DC exhibition of a Colombian artist needed professional grade display cases, they turned to Miami startup Sectis Design. For the Venezuelan owners of Sectis, the opportunity to mount Santiago Montoya’s work at the Organization of American

By Carolyn Hays, Tru Vue Sr. Marketing Manager Photo credit: Carlos Rodríguez Cid, Andante Films Rubén Belloso, well-known for his realistic portraits in pastel, announced his upcoming solo exhibition at the Muse Antoine Lecuyer in Saint Quentin, France.  Opening mid-December 2017, this exhibition features 12 to 14 works displayed with Tru Vue Optium Museum Acrylic and

By Victoria Hanley, Paper Conservator, National Museums Scotland Introduction The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial is a temporary exhibition on at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS), Edinburgh until 3 September 2017. It represents the story of one tomb, built around 1290BC and reused for over 1000 years. On display are a range of stunning artefacts, textiles and papyri

By Julie L. McGee, Curator of African American Art, University Museums and Associate Professor, Black American Studies, University of Delaware; Jessica Silverman, Senior Paper Conservator & Preservation Consultant, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA); Amy Heuer, Communications Coordinator, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) THE ARTIST Amos Ashanti Johnson (American, born

By Nicholas Burnett, Director, Museum Conservation Services Ltd; Ken McNamara, Director, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge; Sarah Finney, Conservator, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge In the first instalment of Stripping the Land Bare, we described the recent conservation and restoration of William Smith’s 1815 geological map of England and Wales “A DELINEATION of the STRATA of ENGLAND

By Ryan Hewson, Collection and Preservation Project Manager, Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation In 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright began his home, Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning “shining brow,” acknowledges its perch on the brow of a stately hill. This hill captivated Wright as a teenager working on the surrounding farms