Georgia O'Keeffe's Dangerous Soap
This recently published report is notable for a number of reasons.
Two themes to highlight:
Critical examination of assumptions: “For decades, conservationists and scholars assumed these tiny protrusions were grains of sand, kicked up from the New Mexico desert where O’Keeffe lived and worked.”
Continuous collection of climate metrics: “After we understand what sort of environmental conditions they have been in, what sort of relative humidity, what sort of temperatures, whether they have been in direct sunlight, then we can prescribe a particular environment with particular conditions that will allow the art work to survive over a very long period of time,” Walton said.