Weather and atmosphere-based artworks draw upon our innate ability to sense and make sense of our world. This paper examines the challenges contemporary art conservators face when confronted with these complex works and explores creative strategies for their documentation and care.
ART HISTORICAL RESEARCH
As international avant-garde movements like Kinetic, Interactive, and Programmed Art developed toward the end of the 1950s, an exhibition was mounted in a typewriter showroom in Milan. This essay examines the historic exhibition and several of contemporary iterations.
Milan in Motion:
Revisiting Olivetti’s 1962 Arte Programmata Exhibition and its Contemporary Iterations
Weather Permitting:
Conservation and Documentation Challenges of Weather and Atmosphere-Based Artworks
This essay explores the collaborative and nuanced decision-making process used by conservators at The Museum of Modern Art to bring Paik’s player piano back to life and mirrors the multidisciplinary working relationship modern art conservators have had to adopt in their daily practice.
The tomb of a high-ranking courtier in the Egypt’s 5th Dynasty ensured the decedent’s high status would be perennially on display. Buried beneath the sand for over 4,200 years, Perneb’s tomb has landed in Central Park to once again stirs respect and admiration in its visitors.
An Historical and Contextual Analysis of The Mastaba Tomb of Perneb, a Rare Surviving Nonroyal Old Kingdom Egyptian Burial
A Performance Fit for Paik:
Historical Background and Pre-Acquisition Assessment of Nam June Paik’s Untitled (Piano)
Images, L to R: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mario Dondero, The Museum of Modern Art, Encyclopedia Brittanica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heb-Sed)