I understand that these glasses are used by art conservators for fine-detail work.
Can someone please tell me what these glasses are called? Or where to find these specific glasses on the internet? I'm specifically looking for these metal wireframe glasses.
Thank you in advance!
Hey all, just feeling a bit hopeless after another job rejection.
I’m a recent masters of art conservation graduate who has interned at some large institutions within my country, but still cannot find an emerging conservator job for the life of me.
The most common thing I find with rejections is that I don’t have as much experience as the competition, but can’t find any experience to add to my resume.
It’s rough, and I know many many other graduates are going through the same thing but it still sucks. Anyway, just wanted to rant:(
Up on the fifth floor of the Harvard Art Museums, sunlight pours into a glass-walled conservation lab, where restoration is quietly underway. Frames and paintings lie across the workspace in various stages of repair, each requiring a different method of preservation and reconstruction. Moving carefully among them is Allison K. Jackson, an associate frame conservator at the Harvard Art Museums.
While a visitor might spend minutes analyzing a painting, the frame rarely commands the same attention. Jackson’s life work, however, suggests we should look again.
“Frames themselves were not always considered works of art in their own right,” Jackson says. “It feels pioneering to consider the frames as works of art themselves, about sharing the impact of frames on an artwork, and making sure they are treated as such.”
If you collect records you know that splitting like this is a common occurrence when they aren’t packed properly. Is there any way to restore it? I was thinking that perhaps a bit of glue could be used to seal it and then go over it with a pen. Any ideas? I don’t need it to be perfect and more want to do it just to try something.