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Conservation

Conserving contemporary art: immortality starts here

The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) turned down the opportunity to acquire a seminal work by Robert Rauschenberg because of fears the piece would be too difficult to conserve. The sculpture... MORE

Published online: 09 May 2013

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Boston museum sets its sights 20ft high

Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls an 18th-century English drawing room

Published online: 08 May 2013

Auckland Castle opens with grand ambitions

Historic home of the bishops of Durham is restored, hopes to draw tourists with its exotic collection of Zurbaráns

Published online: 02 May 2013

Fight to preserve Egypt’s ancient Jewish sites

New leader wants the government to recognise that “Jewish temples are like the pyramids and the Sphinx”— an important part of the country’s history

Published online: 26 April 2013

Tunnels discovered under Mussolini’s former headquarters

Restoration team at Palazzo Venezia find dictator’s planned hiding place

Published online: 17 April 2013

Conservators told to follow Star Trek captain’s orders

At Icon’s triennial conference in Glasgow this week, the oft-repeated message was “engage” and “make it so”

Published online: 12 April 2013

Gallery

Gallery: Framing Vermeer

Vermeer’s Woman in Blue reading a Letter (1663-4) has had four frames in the past 170 years. Astonishingly, all survive at the Rijksmuseum—offering a unique opportunity to study the impact of framing on the Delft master’s work.

Gallery: Mirrored Mona Lisa

A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture. Here, the two works are compared to each other.

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