Conservation Lab
This column on art and object conservation ran on VICE's Creators Project in 2016 and 2017. View the entire series of 42 articles here.
We Hit the Studio with a Private Painting Restorer
How to Rescue Fashion Before It Self-Destructs
The Artful Science of Mending Works on Paper
Layer by Layer Reconstructions of Old Master Paintings
Inside Harvard’s Incredible Collection of Rare Pigments
Inside an Independent Book Restorer’s Studio
How the Brooklyn Museum Cares for Its Collection
The Race to Save Computer-Based Art
How to Preserve Human Specimens
When an Unplayable Record Preserves a Long-Lost Language
Go Behind the Scenes of the Met’s Costume Institute
Crack a Window into the Art of Glass Preservation
Art & Culture
From 2015 to 2017, I contributed nearly 100 articles to VICE's Creators Project, in addition to my regular column on art conservation (above). View all posts here; a varied selection is at right.
These Poetic Photograms Were Made in Total Darkness in Nature
A Lower East Side Gallery is Completely Falling Apart — Or Is It?
No Really, These Century-Old Aquatic Creatures Are Made of Glass
10 Delightfully Strange Objects from New York’s Newest Antiques Fair
Listen to the Sound of Extinct Habitats Preserved by an Ex-Hollywood Composer
The Mystical Works of an Outsider Artist Who Doesn’t Actually Exist
Enter a Kaleidoscopic Dystopia Rendered in Ink and Charcoal
19th Century Wax Figures Slice Open the Human Body
Turns Out 1960s Yugoslavia Was a Hotbed for Computer Art
Thanks to Pollution, Here Are 4,000 Ways to Misread the Hollywood Sign