The second conference is to be held at the Guggenheim, Bilbao on
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September 13-17, 2004. Titled 20th Congress of the International Institute for
Conservation it is geared for curators, art historians, and conservators. The conference
will have a broad range of topics, including such mundane issues as “launching a new
museum: upward displacement of air-conditioning and computer-controlled daylight
illumination.”105 It also includes numerous sessions that address the hanging of
contemporary art works, including one that speaks to the issues of installing work in
“museums without walls.” Furthermore, the conference contains a session entitled
“maladies of mill-produced metal in modern art.”106 Interestingly, this session may not
only apply to sculpture but also to the titanium shingles that sheath the Guggenheim
Bilbao, itself. The findings set forth in this dissertation have anticipated and compliment
the issues now activated by these conferences and their international corps of
participants.