Conservation

No longer glossing over the subject

The preservation of works made with synthetic paint is a hot topic

Published online: 13 June 2013

 
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Conserving works made with synthetic paints

Paintings by Still, Pollock and Riley restored

Published online: 13 June 2013

New home for Mary Rose

Purpose-built museum opens, showing ship’s hull and recovered artefacts—from anchors to nit combs

Published online: 31 May 2013

China investigates Sichuan earthquake, five years on

Officials report on the extent of damage caused by 7.0-magnitude quake to heritage sites and what can be done to conserve them

Published online: 29 May 2013

Picasso vandal sentenced to two years jail time

Uriel Landeros claimed defacement of work at the Menil Collection, Houston was political statement

Published online: 24 May 2013

Caligula reunited with his barges

Restored statue, broken by tomb robbers, to go on display at Roman ship museum

Published online: 23 May 2013

Unicorn tapestries recreated

The famous cycle of seven, early 16th-century Netherlandish tapestries, “The Hunt of the Unicorn”, has been recreated at a cost of £2m as...

How do you say "shoo kitty" in Latin?

Anyone with a cat and a laptop at home will feel sympathy for the medieval scribe who worked on this manuscript. The photo was posted on...

A bloody mess averted

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, had to remove Marc Quinn’s frozen sculpture Self 2, 1996, from the...