The Curators Participate in the Conservation-Acquisition Meeting

The Curators Participate in the Conservation-Acquisition Meeting
1. Watch the film: An Acquiring Mind: Phillip de Montebello, and answer this question: "if curators want to acquire an object for the Met, what do they do? Describe the acquisition process at the Met and the role of the director (formerly Phillip de Montebello) in that process."
In the film, if curators want to acquire an object for the Met, they take several steps. The first step involves a presentation by curators of the acquisition proposals. The curators participate in the conservation-acquisition meeting in a scientific council subcommittee that includes its president. The members' past acquisitions were presented via approval. Secondly, the curators meet the public to establish the acquisition committee composed of 12 voting members appointed by the culture minister. Lastly, the process involved entering the collection that consists of the purchasing consideration.
The acquisition process at the Metropolitan Museum of art involves identifying works of art with the job of almost 100 curators and curatorial assistants. Working with the research team, scientists, and conservators, they help acquire pieces' location, authentication, and proposition to facilitate Met's collection. The process involved painting from the Buddhist banners to medieval manuscripts to the gowns presented in the Costume Institute. De Montebello was in charge of the requests for purchases from every unit. The process includes the efforts of painstaking exertions in preserving and restoring objects that will be on display for millions of museum visitors. The significance of the acquisition process is to be a repository for great works of art and preserve the heritage of humankind. According to de Montebello, the preservation purpose is for the need of existing and future generations.
The role of the director is to ensure that there is a smooth running of the processes in the museum through proper coordination. The main purpose of de Montebello was to run the museum for the benefit of the public. The focus was to enhance innovation in conservation techniques that contributed much to the cultural institution. His main function was to enhance art in Europe to serve as the world's greatest history preservation. He left big shoes to be filled by the next director, but the roles are clearly defined and can hence be implemented.
2. Watch the film: Miami Sting, and Describe how the "sting" worked.
Miami Sting highlights the elaborate story of how two Ruben paintings were stolen from the museum of fine arts, a museum in La Coruna, a small city suburb in Spain. It was supposed to be a perfect art heist, with the perpetrators trying to leave no evidence behind. The film describes the efforts by the police, lawyers, and all the other relevant players in the art industry in trying to get these paintings back. This was essentially through performing a series of sting operations based on the pieces of evidence that they got. The film also traces the mastermind behind the theft.
A sting operation usually entails having an undercover agent or detective playing the role of an accomplice to a given crime to get deeper and closer to the perpetrators of the same and have them arrested. They, therefore...