Preservation

The 'world's first art amusement park' rides again

With attractions by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and others, the resurrected Luna Luna opens in Los Angeles this month

Two artists’ homes listed among most endangered historical sites in the US

The homes of L.V. Hull in Mississippi and Henry Ossawa Tanner in Philadelphia are at risk of irreparable damage or demolition, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Acclaimed sculptural installation, once threatened with demolition, reopens at new site

An installation in Washington, DC by Elyn Zimmerman featuring 450,000-pound boulders has been relocated, with the artist reconfiguring and retitling her work for the new site

High-tech security systems installed on Banksy’s Ukraine murals

Ajax Systems has deployed $13,000 worth of security and monitoring apparatuses at four Banksy murals in and around Kyiv

Heritage protection foundation Aliph expands with office in Saudi Arabia

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

Home of Henry Ossawa Tanner—one of the first internationally renowned African American artists—faces demolition

A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia

Getty Foundation launches $3.1m programme to preserve Black architects' work

The two-year grant Preserving Black Modernism extends the foundation's larger initiative to protect Modernist architecture

War-ravaged Ukrainian mosaics digitally recreated in London show

Exhibition builds on a project to document Ukraine's monumental and contested public art created during Soviet era

Preservationists urge restrictions on oil and gas exploitation near archaeological sites, parks and monuments in US Southwest

A new report highlights the risks posed by resource extraction near sites that are of sacred to Indigenous groups and have enormous archaeological significance

Centre of Marfa, Texas, including 11 buildings repurposed by Donald Judd, added to US National Register of Historic Places

The designation will aid the Chinati and Judd foundations in preserving their buildings in the West Texas town

Federal agency approves disputed redesign of Hirshhorn Museum’s Modernist sculpture garden

National Capital Planning Commission welcomes revisions to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposal for an expanded reflecting pool and stacked stone walls

Artist transforms Gilded Age pool house into an atmospheric soundscape

To evoke a watershed moment in society, Jorge Otero-Pailos has filled an abandoned natatorium with sounds recorded from bodies of water in New York State

Almost 70% of smuggled objects seized in Syria and Lebanon are fakes, antiquities chief says

In a wide-ranging interview, Maamoun Abdulkarim discussed the realities of illegal trafficking, restoration efforts in Palmyra and his concerns over destruction in Aleppo

Art360 initiative lets artists take the long view

Three-year archive programme will focus on Modern British and contemporary artists, starting with three women

Step inside conceptual artist David Ireland’s greatest masterpiece—his home

House on 500 Capp Street in San Francisco will become an arts space, archive and study centre

British Museum’s ivory icons denied US entry for loan show

The US Fish and Wildlife Service blocked the importation of the Byzantine objects before they ever left the UK

High Line co-founder to lead World Monuments Fund

Joshua David will replace long-time president Bonnie Burnham in November

Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration

Florida archaeologists launch legal fight against US Department of Transportation

<p> High-speed rail line threatens prehistoric sites of cultural importance, according to group </p>