https://hyperallergic.com/699655/pastels-are-damned-beautiful/ Sensitive to Art & its Discontents Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:10:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://hyperallergic.com/699655/pastels-are-damned-beautiful/#comment-597107 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:51:57 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=699655#comment-597107 Thank you for this article. The show sounds glorious! And so good to see an exhibition drawn heavily from a museum’s own collection – like shopping your closet. It’s an important resource for many reasons and hopefully the trend will continue.
I would like to point out that pastel artworks are more problematic to exhibit as their delicate surface requires that they be transported flat. Vibrations from travel are a real risk. Additionally, they must be glazed under glass, not plexiglas (which creates a magnetic field that can lift the dust), so large works are quite heavy. These two factors can make pastel works less likely to be shown and certainly less likely to be included in loan shows.

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