Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 3:00pm

Davis Galleries

Co-curators Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and Claire Whitner will discuss how the current installation of the Davis’s Italian Old Master paintings collection is intended to provoke discussion of the behind-the-scenes decision-making that happens among curators: which paintings should be placed on view and why, whether  conservation is an option, how should “hangs” be arranged, what information should be included in labels, among others.  Objects conservator, Gerri Strickler, will join the conversation with her assessment of the Davis’s collection of polychrome sculpture and discuss how these preliminary findings will determine whether treatment is possible and if so, how it will be carried out.