A More Plastic Future for Valuable Art

From the Getty

Who knew? From all the rubbish on the beach, believe most of us thought that plastics were indestructible, the Dustin Hoffman, "Graduate" way to go because they had a limitless future. So, go figure: For artistic and conservation concern, plastics do degrade, get damaged and even disappear into a powder. They crack, warp and ooze. And for more than a quarter century, those worried about preserving and protecting art works with plastics in them have fretted about exactly what to do. New research, in a project called POPART (the acronym has its own clever etymology), aim to tackle this woe.

Getty Tackles Preservation of Plastic