AGO Frames Conference available online
November 22 2024
Picture: ago.ca
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
In case you didn't manage to make it to the Art Gallery of Ontario's (AGO) recent two-day conference entitled Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context, the art gallery has published recordings of all the presentations for free online (click on the link to read more).
Here's the blurb explaining the purpose of the conference:
This online conference on the history and conservation of frames was co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium presented current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics.


