In Art Conservation, There Is No Perfect Solution
Conservator Rosa Lowinger reflects on her time working at LACMA in the 1980s in an excerpt from her new memoir, Dwell Time.
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How Nazi-looted treasures ended up in a Jewish-owned collection
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, photographed on November 15, 2016. (The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London) LONDON (Jewish News) — One day in 1969, Arthur Gilbert, a Jewish immigrant to Los Angeles from London, wandered into an antique shop on the city’s upscale Rodeo Drive – and fell in love. Specifically, he fell in love with an almost forgotten and startling art form — what Gilbert called micromosaics — thousands and thousands of tiny pieces of glass that form a picture, almost indistinguishable from a painting. The techniqu...
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