Conservation
Support Conservation
To make a contribution to the Conservation Department, please call (212) 671-5402.
The Artist Documentation Program
The Artist Documentation Program interviews artists and their close associates in order to gain a better understanding of their materials, working techniques, and intent for conservation of their works.
The Conservation Department at the Whitney Museum was founded in 2001. From the outset, it was designed to be both a treatment and research center. As such, it moved into a reclaimed and renovated modest space within the current building designed by Marcel Breuer. Conceived as a partner with the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at the Harvard Art Museum, it shares in the Center’s dissemination of information through teaching, lecturing, and publication.
Conserving Calder’s Circus
In this video, Whitney conservators Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Eleonora Nagy, archivist Anita Duquette, and art historian Joan Simon describe the process of restoring one of the most beloved works in the Whitney’s collection, Alexander Calder’s Circus.
