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Art conservation science research in the press

  • A Lost Picasso? Uncovering Old Secrets to Identify Modern Sculptures
    Alloy composition profiles could help identify, date and authenticate bronzes  http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/08/sculptureDNA.html
  • F. Casadio “The Synchrotron: Particle Accelerator or Time Machine? A Tale of Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Cutting-Edge Contemporary Technology,” Bulletin of the Asian Art Society of the Art Institute, 2005
  •  “Behind the Scenes: Conservators take a look back in time” in News and Events, The Art Institute of Chicago, members’ magazine, November/December 2005
  • “Partners Strengthen Art Conservation. Northwestern’s Effort with Art Institute, Argonne Lab Will Offer a Model of Cross disciplinary Collaboration,” by Megan Fellman, Northwestern Observer, December 1, 2005. Front page and page 7.
  • “Northwestern Collaborates with Art Institute on Conservation Science,” December, Northwestern e-news  sent to more than 81,000 alumni and friends of the university.  http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2005/11/conservation.html
  • “Cutting through the mists of Time” an article featured on the Web site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and made available in the lobby of Argonne’s APS main building in 2006.
  • “Not Jaded about Research. Engineering School, Art Institute Collaboration Unravels Historical Mystery,” posted on-line on NU website on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006: http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/newsletter/mccormick.html (the link is unfortunately no longer active)
  •  “The Art Of Teaching: Revealing Mysteries of the Past” in Centerpiece, A quarterly Publication Featuring the Northwestern University Research Centers, Fall 2006, Vol. 6 / Number 1, pp. 5
  • Art and Science collaborate to explore the past with X-Rays at Argonne National Laboratory posted in the Argonne website on April, 2nd, 2007 (http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2007/APS070330.html) and broadcasted on 3/26/07 on Chicago NPR station WBEZ (http://audio.wbez.org/cityroom/2007/03/cityroom_20070326_lkalsnes_Big%20.mp3)
  • “Historic sunset regained” by Richard Van Noorden, published on line on Chemistry World, a journal of the Royal chemical Society, April 3, 2007 (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/April/03040701.asp)
  • “Study in scarlet. Why was there no color in the sky of a Winslow Homer painting? Art Institute detectives crack this and other mysteries”, By Marni Pyke, the Daily Herald, Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 (http://www.dailyherald.com/search/printstory.asp?id=307987)
  • “Photonics for Art’s Sake”, by Hank Hogan, Photonics Spectra, June 2007, Vol. 41, Issue 6, pp. 46-53
  • “Students explore the intersection of science and art. Why is red paint red?”, McCormick, Spring 2007, page 14, an article on NU’s magazine on the research experience for teacher’s internship shared between with NU and AIC.
  •  Beneath the color, secrets of an artist: High-tech tools shed light on how Winslow Homer created his masterpieces by William Mullen, Feb 29, 2008 Chicago Tribune, front page and page 14;
  • Northwestern Observer, Northwestern University News and Information, March 29, 2007 'Watching Art and Science Come Together”;
  • Northwestern Observer, Northwestern University News and Information, June 26th, 2008, “Investigating Homer’s Lost Reds” by Megan Fellman p.7;
  • “Encounter: Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne, Color Guard” by Jeff Cockrell, Northshore Magazine, August 2008, p.17;


Crosscurrents

 

“Conserving masterpieces: today’s chemists penetrate mysteries of yesterday’s art” by Lisa Stein, in Cross Currents printed by Northwestern University’s Weinberg college of art and sciences fall/winter 2007/2008 volume 8, number 2, p.18-20  (include also image of first page of pdf (cross-Current_2008.pdf)

Winslow Homer painting
Study in Scarlet
Why was there no color in the sky of a Winslow Homer painting? Art Institute detectives crack this and other mysteries. Daily Herald
McCormick by Design Spring 2006 cover
The Art of Engineering
The McCormick School and the Art Institute of Chicago demonstrate that interesting conservation problems involving some of the museum’s ancient jades and paintings could best be addressed collaboratively. The partners will now broaden their work as they continue to conduct important interdisciplinary research and offer education programs focused on fundamental issues involving science and art that require outstanding research quality and intellectual breadth. McCormick by Design Spring 2006


Article about the Chinese Bronze research collaboration with AIC, NU and Argonne National Lab is featured in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of the Art Institute of Chicago's News and Events members' magazine.


The National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago collaborated to organize “Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre,” an Art Institute exhibit that places the artist’s work at the peak of his career between 1888 and 1896 in concert with the work of other artists of the period.  In preparation for the exhibit (July 16 - Oct. 10, 2005), scientists at the Art Institute and at Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center collaborated to reveal fascinating and detailed technical art history about Lautrec’s Ballet Dancers and other masterpieces. See the article in CenterPiece on page 4.


Alyson Whitney received the young investigator award for the best oral presentation at the recent 3rd International Conference on the application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, Paris, Aug. 31-Sept. 3 2005. Alyson presented the work from “An innovative surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for the identification of six traditional red lakes and dyestuffs” Alyson V. Whitney, Richard P. Van Duyne and Francesca Casadio.

 

 


Chicago Tribune article -Wednesday, July 13, 2005
CSI:Art History

 

 

 

 


McCormick by Design article - Spring 2005
The Art Institute of Chicago and McCormick: A shared interest in conservation

 
     

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