All Essays
Paper Conservation
An object included in the exhibition Mandalas initiated discussions amongst curators and conservators about the ethical considerations of inpainting.
October 24, 2024
Recently, three exhibitions with works on scrolled paper challenged Paper Conservation staff to find mounting methods that showcased the objects in visually exciting ways.
Rebecca Capua, Yana van Dyke, and Rachel Mustalish
October 24, 2024
In 2022, The Met offered for the first time a fellowship designed to bridge the worlds of curatorial practice, and the scientific study of art.
Olivia Dill
May 31, 2023
Paper Conservation Fellow Cornelia Busslehner examines Hungarian artist Dora Maurer’s displacements (a) series.
Cornelia Busslehner
April 10, 2023
Conservator Rebecca Capua talks about opportunities for prospective graduate students in the Department of Paper Conservation.
Rebecca Capua
January 26, 2023
The animated films of Disney are some of the best known worldwide. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns several of the animation cels and drawings that were a fundamental part of the filmmaking process.
Rachel Mustalish
January 12, 2022
Conservators at The Met describe the difficulties of preserving pastels.
Marjorie Shelley
August 27, 2020
With minor variations, the papyrus roll was produced essentially the same way throughout its approximately 4,000-year history.
Rebecca Capua
March 1, 2015
As with many inventions, it is hard to ascertain what initially inspired goldsmiths to adapt the champlevé technique for printmaking.
Angela Campbell and Femke Speelberg
November 1, 2012
Although developed in the mid-nineteenth century for commercial purposes, it is the twentieth-century artist who has adopted plastics as an art material.
Rachel Mustalish
October 1, 2004