Conservation & Preservation
Abstract Expressionists' studio and Osage pictograph cave included on list of endangered US cultural sites
The latest National Trust for Historic Preservation list of endangered sites includes a cave of ancient pictographs in Missouri and the Hamptons home of painters James Brooks and Charlotte Park
Enormous mural on California dam may be removed after attempts to secure legal protections fail
The 80,000 sq. ft ‘Bicentennial Freedom Mural’ was marked for removal due to levels of lead in the paint used to make it and its deteriorating condition
Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco to be conserved, not deaccessioned
The San Francisco Art Institute has received $200,000 from the Mellon Foundation to conserve the 1931 fresco
Cut from its frame in brazen theft and lost for 30 years, restored De Kooning painting will take centre stage in Getty show
Los Angeles museum will unveil the results of an intensive conservation of Woman-Ochre, which was badly damaged when it was stolen in 1985
William Morris's 'heaven on earth' home in the Cotswolds reopens after restoration
New research has helped to bring back lost objects and features at Kelmscott Manor, where the English Arts and Crafts designer lived for 25 years
After years of emergencies, Italy launches 'unprecedented' plan to protect churches against earthquake damage
Culture ministry earmarks EU pandemic recovery funds to mitigate the impact of future disasters on religious buildings around the country
Seven artists’ studios and environments added to US National Trust for Historic Preservation programme
The new additions to the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios reflect an effort to add greater diversity to the network of sites
Medieval Jewish codex to be shown in New York before conservation
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will begin conservation efforts later this year with a $27,600 grant from The European Fine Art Foundation
Brazilian Modernist building struck by fire receives Getty conservation grant
The Jorge Machado Moreira-designed architecture and urbanism building of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has received a $240,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to support the conservation of its archive
Saving the art of Palestinian textiles: West Bank museum and V&A join forces to create new conservation studio
Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes
Sculptures vandalised by Isis return to ancient city of Hatra after restoration
Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp
Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project
New initiative by Save Venice will focus on more than 30 female artists who worked in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, from Marietta Robusti to Rosalba Carriera
Former panopticon prison on Italian island to be turned into 'academy' for Europe's future leaders—and artist residency
The 18th-century horseshoe-shaped structure followed principle of social theorist Jeremy Bentham, which allowed for constant surveillance of inmates
Historic Peruvian church to be restored after earthquake
The Church of La Jalca Grande, one of the first churches built in Peru after the Spanish conquest, was constructed using stones from pre-Hispanic monuments
True mettle: restoring Hampton Court Palace's glorious but scarred Baroque iron screens
Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs
Van Gogh gets a facelift: conservation of self-portrait to be revealed in London
The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition
Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland
Restoration of Courtauld Gallery's Botticelli altarpiece yields surprising new discoveries
Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution
Ancient Krishnas are reunited with their body parts
A collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Museum of Cambodia revealed that each boy god had been given the other’s limbs during earlier conservation work
Of teapots and rubabs: a story of breaking and mending in Afghanistan
In a country that has been at war with others and itself for decades, the danger lies in forgetting how to repair the damage, says archaeologist and cultural heritage specialist Bastien Varoutsikos
Getty Foundation donates $1.3m to preserve Arizona national monument
The Wupatki National Monument contains an ancient Indigenous complex and more than 5,000 adjacent archaeological sites
A sneak peek at France's first cultural venue celebrating stained glass
The Cité du Vitrail will open in the medieval town of Troyes in spring 2022, but preview tours are running this weekend for the European Heritage Days
Ancient Chinese sites hit by flash floods this summer
Deadly rains in central Henan province threatened key Unesco World Heritage sites and hundreds of national relics. Experts warn the disaster may be a taste of future trouble
Klee Wyck, a historic home used by Emily Carr in West Vancouver, to be demolished
The property, bequeathed to the district by a physician friend of the artist for use as an arts centre, has been neglected for decades
Protocols are already available to help save Afghanistan’s cultural heritage
In 2015, the Association of Art Museum Directors established a structure under which museums can act to protect cultural property in immanent peril
Afghanistan: the historical sites of key concern after the Taliban's return
From the Bamiyan Valley to an ancient spiritual centre of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, former Unesco senior official Francesco Bandarin looks at the embattled country’s most important landmarks
Vancouver public sculpture is for the birds no more
Stacked car installation that became a roost for local pigeons and starlings—and was covered by their poo—will be restored and eventually relocated
Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire
The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house
British Museum to restore glass artefacts shattered in Beirut explosion
Eight vessels from the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut will undergo conservation thanks to €25,000 grant from Tefaf fund
Nailed it: Kizhi Pogost church is finally restored on Russian island of remarkable wooden buildings
Newly reopened 18th-century Church of the Transfiguration, topped with 22 domes, is said to have been built without a single nail