The Key To Seeing (And Saving) Priceless Art | Out of Our Elements

Can chemistry help us save precious art?
Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?sub...
↓ More info below ↓

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateTerra.

To find out how science and art are intertwined, Out of Our Elements Host Arlo Pérez Esquivel talks to Harvard Art Museums’ Narayan Khandekar, an organic chemist who leads research and conservation activities at The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, about the tools (including a catalogue of more than 2,700 pigments) it uses to scientifically analyze paintings.

Then, art conservator Liza Leto-Fulton demonstrates how to make paint using pigment and a binding medium. And she explains why, despite technological and scientific advances, the human touch is still an important part of conservation.

Read on NOVA about microbes that might destroy—or help art conservators save—priceless works of art: https://to.pbs.org/3CpEHPp

---

You can seek out our hosts here:
:: Caitlin Saks ::
Twitter: https://twitter.com/caitlin_saks

:: Arlo Pérez Esquivel ::
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perez.arlo

---

Series Produced and Hosted by: Caitlin Saks and Arlo Pérez Esquivel
Associate Producer: Angelica Coleman
Associate Researcher: Christina Monnen
Science Advisor: Matthew Eddy
Animation: Edgeworx Studios
Executive Producers: Julia Cort and Chris Schmidt

Executives in Charge for PBS: Adam Dylewski, Jess Kasza
Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: Niki Walker
Digital Editor: Hanna Ali
Senior Digital Editor: Sukee Bennett
Rights Manager: Hannah Gotwals
Business Manager: Elisabeth Frele
Digital Managing Producer: Kristine Allington
Coordinating Producer: Elizabeth Benjes
Director of Public Relations: Jennifer Welsh
Legal and Business Affairs: Susan Rosen and Eric Brass

Archival:
Brian Edgerton
Edgeworx
Getty
Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Pascal Cotte, Rob Tinworth
Surrey Nanosystems
Storyblocks

Music: APM

Special Thanks: Nygel Jones

Funding for NOVA provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the NOVA Science Trust.

Original Production Funding for Out of Our Elements provided by
Anne Ray Foundation, a Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy

Out of Our Elements is a production of GBH.
© 2021 WGBH. All rights reserved.

Видео The Key To Seeing (And Saving) Priceless Art | Out of Our Elements канала PBS Terra