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When it comes to long-term storage of art, damage can be calculated in more ways than whether a piece of art is noticeably defaced. The biggest threat to these

When it comes to long-term storage of art, damage can be calculated in more ways than whether a piece of art is noticeably defaced. The biggest threat to these pieces lies in being stored outside of a climate, light, and humidity-controlled environment. When the lifespan of a thing is hundreds or thousands of years, this matters just as much. However, if the museum doesn't normally keep its stored pieces in a controlled environment, then this should be no different. But kudos to these organizations for trusting the students enough to do this.

jandrese 7y ago
Presumably the kids get an education on where to place the works. Not next to a window where it's going to eat full sun in the afternoon for example. I also assume that it's the kind of thing that is mostly only known to the kind of kids that are going to take good care of the works.
opwieurposiu 7y ago
Storage has other problems; A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. A painting requires a viewer for it to become art.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  > A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. It may just as well not exist at all.
- cgriswald 7y ago
  A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. But a copy can’t answer some questions so preserving the original for future study (and new questions, ideas, and technology) is valuable.
  - simonh 7y ago
    The point is though that future study doesn’t necessarily have a higher value than current study. Especially if the art is likely to degrade over time in some respects anyway.
  - skeptical900067 7y ago
    >A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. Maybe for a lay-viewer. As an amateur realist painter, even the very best prints seem to lose 75-80% of the mark-making and process clues that are easily observable in originals.

jandrese 7y ago

Presumably the kids get an education on where to place the works. Not next to a window where it's going to eat full sun in the afternoon for example. I also assume that it's the kind of thing that is mostly only known to the kind of kids that are going to take good care of the works.

opwieurposiu 7y ago

Storage has other problems; A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. A painting requires a viewer for it to become art.

jacquesm 7y ago
> A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. It may just as well not exist at all.
cgriswald 7y ago
A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. But a copy can’t answer some questions so preserving the original for future study (and new questions, ideas, and technology) is valuable.
- simonh 7y ago
  The point is though that future study doesn’t necessarily have a higher value than current study. Especially if the art is likely to degrade over time in some respects anyway.
- skeptical900067 7y ago
  >A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. Maybe for a lay-viewer. As an amateur realist painter, even the very best prints seem to lose 75-80% of the mark-making and process clues that are easily observable in originals.