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Art Bio Matters
Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
Assembling scientists, curators/historians, and conservators to study of biological materials in cultural heritage
About us
ART BIO MATTERS aims to provide a stimulating forum in which to explore current and new directions in the study of biological materials found in cultural heritage collections through a biannual meeting and a dedicated website. A key aspect of the forum is the opportunity to discuss research at any stage of completion among a balanced community of experts in a format designed to promote collegial dialogue and debate. While the core disciplines of ABM are science, curatorial/cultural history, and conservation, ABM welcomes other stakeholders involved in cultural heritage studies. Art Bio Matters 2021, September 22 - 24. Applications to register opening early May. 2021 Organizers: Julie Arslanoglu, Research Scientist, Metropolitan Museum of Art Margaret Holben Ellis, Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita, Institute of Fine Arts New York University 2021 Steering Committee: Dr. Erma Hermens, Professor in Studio Practice and Technical Art History, Rijksmuseum Dr. Chris Mason, Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine Dr. Constantine Petridis, Chair and Curator Arts of Africa, The Art Institute of Chicago Amy Tjiong, Conservator, American Museum of Natural History Dr. Caroline Tokarski, Professor, University of Bordeaux Frank Trujillo, Drue Heinz Book Conservator, The Morgan Library & Museum Coordinator: Dr. Aleksandra Popowich, Research Associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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We're excited to announce Art Bio Matter's first member conversation of 2025 with Katherine “Kat” McFarlin, a conservator from the American Museum of Natural History and Cynthia Hahn, a professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00 am ET. As with all Art Bio Matter events, membership is required to attend and participate in the discussion. If you haven't joined yet, you can easily do so on the main website: artbiomatters.org/join-abm ------- Perceptions of Human Remains with Katherine “Kat” McFarlin and Cynthia Hahn Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00 am ET This discussion centers around one question - how do practices around interacting with bodily remains vary across cultures and time periods? Two branching lines of inquiry immediately arise from this initial query. First, how do we define (or identify) human remains, and subsequently what then constitutes respect for the deceased? Does reverence for the dead only extend to the physical body, or does it extend to - or even originate from - the applied cultural practices, associated objects and artworks, or religious contexts? Second, how were these remains intended to be seen and how should we ‘see’ them? Is visibility only possible for certain audiences? How should these concepts influence the modern study and display of human and non-human remains in institutional contexts? Where is the line between what can be scientifically known, and what ethically should be known? Cynthia, an art historian, and Kat, a conservator, will be holding an informal conversation on these topics, which may well be of interest to a wider range of scholars and practitioners: curators, scientists, and academics whose work involves human remains, and anyone else who may be concerned with thoughtful approaches regarding the study and stewardship of physical remains and associated belongings.
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Senior researcher, PPSM Lab, ENS Paris-Saclay CNRS; Coordinator, DIM PAMIR Région Île-de-France
Second major synchrotron session on the tomographic testing of bio-based treatments for metal artefacts by Professor Edith Joseph from the HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale team at Synchrotron SOLEIL with Edith Joseph, Patrycja Janina Petrasz, Giulia D'Agostino, Qing Wu, Serge Cohen and Andrew King, involving three partners on the Université Paris-Saclay campus: #PPSM, IPANEMA Lab and Synchrotron SOLEIL. GoGreen Conservation | European Commission
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JOB ALERT 📢 Join Our Team as Head of Organic Conservation Owing to a fabulous job move and promotion for the current post holder our Head of Organic Conservation role is now being recruited to. The Head of Organic Conservation plays a pivotal role in providing leadership in organic conservation across all of our sites. The role is part of the museum's Conservation senior management team. This role requires extensive experience in organic conservation and excellent planning and negotiation skills. Applications only via https://lnkd.in/ezGXRDvT or through the British Museum jobs landing page https://lnkd.in/eRRMHV6c Deadline 10 March, with interviews planned for W/S 17 March 2025.
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Check out this article by Rachel Lackner from the special issue for Dyes in History and Archaeology 42. Read other articles in this issue here: https://lnkd.in/e4-RuWep
Open Access | IF: 2.0 (Q2) | CiteScore: 2.9 (Q1) | EiCs: Nicola Masini and Francesco Soldovieri
This paper provides an organic colorant analysis of Julius Caesar from the Heroes Tapestries, as part of a long-term campaign to document, study, and conserve these tapestries from The Cloisters collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 👉📖 https://brnw.ch/21wQrbA 🔍 Analysis with liquid #chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass #spectrometry (LC-qToF-MS) revealed the presence of several multiply chlorinated xanthones produced only by certain species of lichen. Various lichen dye sources have been documented in the literature for centuries and are classified as either ammonia fermentation method (AFM) or boiling water method (BWM) dyes based on their method of production. However, none of these known sources produce the distinctive metabolites present in the #tapestry. 🧶LC-qToF-MS was also used to compare the chemical composition of the #dyes in the tapestry with that of several species of crustose lichen. Lichen metabolites, including thiophanic acid and arthothelin, were definitively identified in the tapestry based on comparison with lichen xanthone standards and a reference of Lecanora sulphurata, confirming the presence of a lichen source. This finding marks the first time that lichen xanthones have been identified in a historic object and the first evidence that BWM lichen dyes may have been used prior to the eighteenth century.
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New post-doc opp at the PMA!
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) invites applications for a two-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scientific Research, which begins September 2025 and ends August 2027. See details on our website! https://lnkd.in/ewUuNBDS
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This will be a fantastic resource for those who work in libraries and archives! There's a wide range of papers on all aspects of toxic materials that might be encountered in historic books. Papers are currently going up in Latest Articles as they are accepted by Studies in Conservation, and a printed themed very full double issue will come out as issues 7/8 of Vol. 70, 2025.
Curious about the forthcoming Bibliotoxicology special issue of Studies in Conservation? Our free and open Editorial Introduction is a quick read and provides important context. You can access it online at the link below. The full print special issue will be coming out in November/December 2025. Rosie Grayburn #bibliotoxicology #poisonbookproject https://lnkd.in/emUz2nsW
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Conservation Graduate Internship in the Avenir Conservation Center/Denver Museum of Nature & Science!
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At the Natural History Museum we are recruiting a Head of Conservation, If you know anyone who might be passionate about this important and fascinating work, please share this opportunity with them. https://lnkd.in/eFFEYGyk