Conservation
St Mark’s architect warns that Venice’s historic houses are falling down
In an interview, Maria Piana, the architect responsible for the famous basilica, says urgent action is needed to save the city’s houses from rising water levels
Salvation for artist’s apocalyptic prophecy house
Isaiah Robertson's house covered in kaleidoscopic assemblages in Niagara Falls, New York, to open to the public as an art destination and community gathering space
Artist Mary Miss sues US art centre to block demolition of her Land art environment
Municipal officials recently approved the Des Moines Art Center’s plans to demolish “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”
Two climate activists charged for pouring red powder on National Archives display of the US Constitution
The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency
Under the bonnet: €300,000 Ferrari-funded restoration completed on 13th-century Cimabue fresco
Maestà di Assisi, located in the saint's home town, which survived a deadly earthquake in 1997, has been returned to its original luminosity
Trinity College Dublin turns a page on Old Library conservation
A major €90m upgrade of the hallowed Long Room—and its 200,000 books—begins at the end of the year, while its famous Book of Kells gets an immersive makeover
Uproar over US art centre’s plan to demolish Land art environment by Mary Miss
The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa intends to demolish Miss’s environmental intervention, against the artist’s wishes
Venice city council proposes limiting tourist groups and banning loudspeakers
Latest measures are attempt to stem mass tourism and conserve the historic city
Venice should charge tourists at least €25 but make them proud to save the city
The current €5 plan does not aim to limit numbers and will not raise significant funds
Revealed: the damp-proof lead layer protecting Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Scientists discovered extra seam during Operation Night Watch conservation project at the Rijksmuseum
Private donations save Bologna’s Garisenda tower from collapse
City had been forced to cordon off leaning 12th-century structure
President Macron confirms Notre Dame opening date plus plans for a new museum
While worshippers will be permitted to enter the cathedral by December 2024, a revamp of the surrounding area will continue
Waddesdon Manor’s elephant swings its trunk once more
Restored to its former glory, the 200kg automaton is now on show at the Buckingham mansion
DIY insulation and cow bones: Oxford college renovation reveals what life was like as a 17th-century student
The conservation of St John’s College has uncovered hidden paintings, underfloor fire escapes and an intriguing signature
Model restoration: Holbein painting of Tudor merchant returned to original glory—including sharper cheekbones
The newly conserved portrait of Derich Born will star in the Queen's Gallery show on the northern Renaissance artist
Controversial Stonehenge tunnel scheme gets greenlight from UK government
Campaign groups say move is ‘as inexplicable as it is disgraceful’
Art and heritage groups must ‘take action now’ to protect culture against climate change, report says
Authors of a new report from the the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities say climate change is the most significant threat in conservation
Climate protestors who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas sculpture face prison time
The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy
Russian authorities confirm that famous 'Trinity' icon will be transferred to church despite protests from restorers and art historians
The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition
Hungry art student eats Maurizio Cattelan’s banana work
The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall
Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists
Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage
Conservation of Chris Burden’s Urban Light and large Warhol Oxidation canvas among projects supported by latest Bank of America grants
In all 23 projects, from Virginia to Hong Kong, are receiving support through the bank's latest round of conservation grants
Keeping it real—fashion supremo Erdem Moralıoğlu is fascinated by museum conservation
The designer consulted restorers at the National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Britain for his latest collection
Pompidou restores three paintings damaged in the Beirut explosion
Kees Van Dongen's portrait of the Lebanese art collector Nicolas Sursock among the works that needed restoration
Notre Dame to reopen in December 2024
Though the Parisian cathedral's nave is expected to reopen to the public by the end of 2024, work to restore the entire site could last until 2028
Vast light installation on San Francisco's Bay Bridge goes dark amid $11m fundraising effort to keep it on
After a decade of illuminating the Bay Area's second-most iconic span, Leo Villareal's artwork will be removed due to outages and weather damage
Huge Paul McCarthy installation seeks forever home
The artist’s “WS White Snow”, an installation which had only been on public display once, is on view in the artist’s studio amid efforts to secure its long-term care
Hogarth's forgotten stairwell: hidden in a 900-year-old London hospital are painter's vast canvases
Works will be restored and opened to the public to mark 900th anniversary of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Egon Schiele painting to be restored with €25,000 grant from Tefaf art fair
Once owned by Jewish collectors in Vienna, the landscape was exported to the US on condition it was exhibited in the Austrian pavilion at the 1948 Venice Biennale
Groups in Guatemala demand return of Maya throne sent to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say