Scroll hidden in animal mummy may lead to the discovery of more old texts

The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, will concentrate on time-based media, digital and performance art

Current owner of the collector William Stern’s former home wants to uncover work that was painted over when the Menil Collection sold the property

Corpse is identified as Anna Catharina Bischoff, who is great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of British foreign secretary

Chinese collector may step in to save the barn, after Arts Council rejects funding bid

New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant

Multiple lawsuits launched in the wake of Trump’s decision to shrink national parks in Utah

First-ever major restoration for the artist’s only work in a Russian museum

The restored Virgin and Child in Glory at the Walker Art Gallery reveals Spanish master's "exquisite skills"

The treatment of Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum's fragile alabaster ensemble could pave the way for future loans

Dismantlement and reconstruction

The museum aims to open the cleaning process to the public, with a conservator on hand to answer questions

The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests

Thomas Campbell posted an image of the Salvator Mundi before conservation, triggering a row with its former co-owner Robert Simon and Christie’s Loic Gouzer

Curators call on St Petersburg prosecutor to investigate "criminal expropriation" of the artefact

How the New York museum is leading the way in conserving half a millennium of style

Two years of investigation preceded the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition of highlights from the Johnson Collection

Figure found using X-ray photography during research by National Galleries of Scotland and Courtauld Institute of Art

Mellon Foundation grant helps to establish conservation centre at city’s Asian art museum

Portrait by Thomas Couture belonged to a French politician who opposed the Nazis

Monarch’s ceremonial bed has survived many battles

The £30m fund helps locals to safeguard and promote heritage at risk in 12 countries in the Middle East and Africa

New research by the National Gallery of Art looks into the complex question of what constituted a finished work in the eyes of the artist

Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list

A surprise find in the Bronx is now part of an exhibition on Baroque painter Cristóbal de Villalpando

“New symbol of Russia” created by New York’s High Line architects is accused of being “catastrophically” out of place

The painting has rarely gone off display at the museum since its opening in 1928—until now

Study of Latin American works from the Coleccíon Patricia Phelps de Cisneros reveals orientation shifts, household paint and ways to obtain that perfect edge

Latest commission at the Headlands Center for the Arts continues long tradition of rehabilitation projects at the former military complex