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

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

Analysis of 16th-century, hand-drawn maps finds that the reds pigments were only available from the late 19th century

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master

Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more

Conservation projects that have been paused due to sanctions on the new government may restart after Unesco intervention

Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat

The Italian artist's paintings and sculptures were studied ahead of an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

Vast pyramid containing sculptor’s heart has been restored with Venice in Peril funding, but will need continuous care and protection from worsening weather and pollution

Dutch national museum opposes the report claiming its foundations have been infected, stating the building “has not sunk a millimetre”

An online conference backed by a research project will explore how institutions can care for time-based, live and organic art

The International Council of Museums has worked with Interpol to create the list, with border patrols on "high alert" to seize art stolen from Ukrainian museums—but is it too late?

Analysis of The Milkmaid ahead of a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum suggests he worked much faster than previously assumed

Leaders of the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan says it favours the conservation of the tangible heritage—including pre-Islamic monuments—but economic sanctions are getting in the way

As the first stage of the museum’s restoration project is unveiled, coinciding with the Brazilian bicentennial of independence, its director calls for more government investment

Silverfish were filmed behind the glazing of a photograph by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Iranian museum

While my past purchases are lined up for a professional clean, it is the current damage of international cultural relations that seem most in need of a fix

As Russia's war continues, conservation is proving impossible—but heritage groups, priests and volunteers are doing their best to document the destruction

The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland

With loan shows bringing together dozens of works with diverse conservation histories, curators can face myriad hurdles in their quest for cohesion

Neri Oxman’s exhibition at SFMOMA features two versions of a sculpture made with bio-composite materials, one of which will decompose over the course of show

A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon project

Eight of the 105 wall drawings in the sweeping retrospective, slated to be on view until 2043, will be restored as part of the project

The glass mosaic depicts figures from Classical mythology and was installed when the hotel opened in 1955—but remained hidden behind a wall for decades

Commissioned by Charles II, the work depicts the 1672 Battle of Solebay between the English and Dutch in which the 1st Earl of Sandwich drowned

The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition

Original sketch has been revealed beneath the paint, shedding light on the Dutch master's intention—but worrying deterioration of the famous picture has also been found

The great Rococo painting in the Wallace Collection in London has been cleaned, revealing some mischievous details

Scientific testing reveals that the artist radically changed his depiction of a Paris couple in a landmark 1788 painting