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2015 Thursday December 17

Art Technological Source Research Working Group - ATSR Newsletter 1/2015: Art Technological Source Research (ATSR) Newsletter 2015 and Call for Papersand Call for Papers: Expression and Sensibility. Art Technological Sources...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Art Technological Source Research)

2015 Thursday December 17

Getty Conservation Institute Workshops – The Digital Print: Contemporary Practice, Identification, and Preservation - Workshop July 25 – 29, 2016: The nature of photography is evolving. Rapid and transformative innovations are both exciting and challenging for conservators. The profession needs t...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Photographic Materials)

2015 Wednesday December 16

CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERIM MEETING OF THE ICOM-CC WORKING GROUP ART TECHNOLOGICAL SOURCE RESEARCH: Call for papers: Expression and Sensibility. Art Technological Sources at the Rise of Modernity, 10-11 November 2016, Staatliche Akademie der Bildende...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Art Technological Source Research)

2015 Friday December 11

Programme and registration for ICOM-CC Interim Meeting of the Wood, Furniture, and Lacquer & the Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations Working Groups in Potsdam, Germany, April 2016: Programme, registration and conference information now avaialble and open.   The conference is a cross disciplinary forum inviting conserva...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Art Technological Source Research, Documentation, Education and Training in Conservation, Modern Materials and Contemporary Art, Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures, Paintings, Preventive Conservation, Scientific Research, Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations, Wood, Furniture and Lacquer)

2015 Friday November 13

Conserving large-scale art works made of polyurethane foam in Danish art and design from the 1960′s to today: new CATS research project: The Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conseravtion (CATS) is heading up a collaborative research project aiming to develop sustainable and envi...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Modern Materials and Contemporary Art)

2015 Wednesday October 21

ICOM-CC 6th Experts' Meeting: Enamel on Metal: The 6TH EXPERTS’ MEETING ON ENAMEL ON METAL will be held at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, 19th ‐ 20th May, 2016 Call for...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Glass and Ceramics, Metals)

2015 Wednesday October 21

Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations Meeting Final Programme - Painting the Flesh, Madrid: Final programme of the Interim meeting of the Working Group on Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations in Madrid, 19-20 November 2015, is...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations)

2015 Wednesday October 21

Extended Abstracts 5th EXPERTS' MEETING ON ENAMEL ON METAL CONSERVATION: Download Extended Abstracts 5th EXPERTS' MEETING ON ENAMEL ON METAL CONSERVATION....

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Glass and Ceramics, Metals)

2015 Thursday September 24

International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Comfort in Historic Buildings: UPDATES on the Second International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Comfort in Historic Buildings (EECHB2016)  which will take place in the c...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Preventive Conservation)

2015 Thursday September 17

CORDOBA Project - Seminar on Gilt Leather: One-day seminar on gilt leather to conclude the research project CORDOBA which focused on the analysis of the silver foils in gilt leather decors by i...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Graphic Documents, Leather and Related Materials, Metals, Scientific Research, Wet Organic and Archaeological Materials)

2015 Wednesday September 16

Joint Interim Meeting - Scientific Research & Education and Training in Conservation Working Groups: Conservation Science and Education April 13-14, 2016 Joint Interim Meeting with ICOM-CC Working Groups Scientific Research, and Education and Tr...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Education and Training in Conservation, Scientific Research)

2015 Monday August 24

E-blast Khaled Asaad in Palmyra Syria - August 2015: ICOM-CC strongly supports ICOM’ s condemnation of the killing of the Syrian archaeologist Khaled Assad Tuesday morning in Palmyra. Our support a...

(Categories: ICOM, ICOM-CC)

2015 Wednesday August 5

Programme for Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations Working Group Interim meeting in Madrid, 19 & 20 November 2015: PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME for the Sculpture, Polychromy, and Architectural Decorations Working Group Interim Meeting in Madrid, 19 & 20 November 2015 ...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Art Technological Source Research, Documentation, Education and Training in Conservation, Paintings, Scientific Research, Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations, Wood, Furniture and Lacquer)

2015 Saturday August 1

Call for Papers: Two-day Symposium on “Collecting and Conserving Performance Art”: In June 2016, the specialty group Modern Art and Cultural Heritage (MKKM) of the German Association of Conservator-Restorers (VDR) will host an intern...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Modern Materials and Contemporary Art)

2015 Tuesday July 28

International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Comfort in Historic Buildings: 19th-21st of October 2016, Brussels, Belgium at the Belgian Royal Library. Abstract submissions open for the Second International Conference o...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Preventive Conservation)

2015 Sunday July 5

"Framework for Preserving Heritage Collections” poster is now available for purchase from Canadian Conservation Institute: The Canadian Conservation Institute is delighted to announce that the updated “Framework for Preserving Heritage Collections” poster is no...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Thursday June 18

A survey for users of display cases & glazed frames for local environmental control of indoor heritage collections: This global survey aims to document the recent practices and perspectives of collection managers who use display cases and glazed frames to slow deter...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Preventive Conservation)

2015 Monday June 15

European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) Thematic Network on Conservation - WORKSHOP V: CONSERVATION/ADAPTATION: KEEPING ALIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF HERITAGE WITH ‘SYMBOLIC VALUE’. EAAE Thematic Networ...

(Categories: Preventive Conservation)

2015 Friday June 5

13th ICOM-CC Wet Organic Archaeological Materials (WOAM) Working Group Conference - 2016: CALL for PAPERS and POSTERS 16 - 21 May 2016 - Florence, Italy For the 2013-2016 Triennial period, the Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Work...

(Categories: ICOM-CC, Wet Organic and Archaeological Materials)

2015 Wednesday June 3

INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ) 2016 - 12th International Conference:   "Indoor Air Quality - in Heritage and Historic Environments" 12th International Conference  Birmingham (UK), Thinktank, 3-4...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Preventive Conservation, Scientific Research)

2015 Tuesday May 12

International Symposium Paul Coremans- A Belgian Monuments Man and his Impact on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage worldwide: Place: Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) Brussels, Belgium. Dates: 15-17 June 2015 The KIK-IRPA is organising an international sy...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Sunday May 10

GLASS REFLECTIONS Conference 2015: Glass Reflections Conference University of Cambridge - Murray Edwards College (UK) 7 to 9 September 2015 The programme of presented papers, with au...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Glass and Ceramics)

2015 Thursday April 16

The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) E-Book Netherlandish Panel Paintings and Frames: The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels (KIK-IRPA) and the Getty Foundation announced today the publication of Frames and Supports ...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Art Technological Source Research, Documentation, Education and Training in Conservation, Paintings, Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations, Theory and History of Conservation, Wood, Furniture and Lacquer)

2015 Tuesday April 7

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL Vol. 67 No. 267-268 - Museums, heritage and capacity building: MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL Vol. 67 No. 267-268 - Museums, heritage and capacity building Call for Papers ICOM is preparing a double issue of Museum I...

(Categories: ICOM)

2015 Friday April 3

Conference on “Artists' Materials. The Study of the Painter’s Atelier in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century”:     A one-day conference will examine the subject of painters’ materials and ateliers from a multidisciplinary perspective:...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Wednesday April 1

HORIZON 2020 Preserving cultural artefacts by preventing corrosion: An EU-funded research project has developed highly-sensitive detectors to monitor corrosive atmospheric pollutants in museums and archives. The detect...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Thursday March 26

'Flesh, Gold and Wood', The Saint Denis altarpiece in Liege and the question of partial paint practices in the 16th Century: Brussels, Belgium - 22, 23, 24 October 2015 The recent treatment of the Brussels altarpiece of the Church of St Denis in Liège by the KIK-IRPA...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Tuesday February 3

Gilding Materials and Techniques in European Art 25-27 May 2015, Évora, Portugal: This international conference proposes to act as the final dissemination action of the Gilt-teller project (PTDC/EAT-EAT/116700/2010; www.gilt-teller....

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC)

2015 Sunday January 11

THANGKA CONSERVATION MASTERCLASS: Wednesday 04 March to Friday 06 March 2015 The course will consist of an historical over view of thangkas, it will touch on the geometry and design...

(Categories: Non ICOM/ICOM-CC, Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures, Paintings, Textiles)

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