The newly renovated and expanded Philip A. and Lynn Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the University Art Museums will be dedicated on Saturday, Nov. 2, with a special luncheon, a full day of lectures and panel discussions, and an evening gala. The reopening of Warburg Hall and the opening of the installation "Investigating the Renaissance" will also be celebrated.

Reservations must be made for the luncheon and the gala. Tickets are $50 for each event. The luncheon, to be held in the Fogg Courtyard, will honor Philip and Lynn Straus and the Warburg family. The gala, also in the Courtyard, features music and dancing, and tours of the Straus Center.

Daytime lectures include "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Paintings at the Fogg Art Museum, 1925-45" at 11 a.m. by Ron Spronk, Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow of the Straus Center for Conservation; and "What's in a Name? The Status of Attribution in Early Netherlandish Painting" at 4 p.m. by Maryan Ainsworth of the Paintings Conservation Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The conservation center was established in 1928 and is the oldest fine arts conservation treatment, research, and training facility in the United States.

For information, call the Friends, Fellows, and Special Programs office at 495-4544.

 

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