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DESCRIPTION:Just in time for Halloween! Join us for a program investigating
  the dark side of some of the world’s most vibrant pigments. BGC professor
  Jennifer Mass will explain how lead\, uranium\, and arsenic are used to c
 reate these glorious but deadly hues and discuss their material histories 
 with Dr. Spike Bucklow (University of Cambridge)\, author of Red: The Art 
 and Science of a Colour.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be c
 irculated to registrants the day before the event. ASL Access will be prov
 ided by ProBono ASL.Meet the Speakers!Spike Bucklow is professor of materi
 al culture at the Hamilton Kerr Institute\, University of Cambridge\, wher
 e he has taught the conservation of paintings for 20 years. He originally 
 trained as a scientist and started working in the arts in the 1980s by mak
 ing pre-CGI special effects in cult and blockbuster movies\, including Sta
 r Wars and Indiana Jones. After retraining as a conservator he worked on E
 ngland’s oldest altarpiece\, the Westminster Retable (c.1260)\, which prom
 pted a lasting interest in the traditional sciences. This has resulted in 
 critically acclaimed books including The Alchemy of Paint (2009)\, The Rid
 dle of the Image (2014)\, Red (2016)\, and The Anatomy of Riches (2018). H
 is latest book\, Children of Mercury\, is an astrological study of painter
 s’ whole lives seen through the Seven Ages\, as made famous in Shakespeare
 ’s As You Like It (1599/1623). It will be published in the spring of 2022.
 Jennifer L. Mass is  the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage S
 cience at Bard Graduate Center. She leads the scientific vetting committee
  at TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) New York and is the president and f
 ounder of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art\, LLC. Dr. Mass serves on the ad
 visory board of the Center for Art Law and lectures on cultural heritage s
 cience and the law at Columbia Law School as well as other law programs th
 roughout the United States. She is the former director of the Scientific R
 esearch and Analysis Laboratory at the Winterthur Museum\, professor of co
 nservation science at the University of Delaware master of science program
  in art conservation. Mass earned her PhD in inorganic chemistry and mater
 ials engineering from Cornell University\, and did her postdoctoral work a
 t the Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation at the Metropolita
 n Museum of Art.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Beautiful and Deadly
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