Restoration
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
Radical plan to restore Clandon Park rejected by members at National Trust annual meeting
Restore Trust campaign group also failed to secure seats on heritage body’s governing council
Revamp of fire-damaged Clandon Park galvanises National Trust ‘woke’ row
Campaign group Restore Trust accuses organisation of backtracking on its restoration plans for the 18th-century Palladian mansion
The Imperial War Museum restores John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, revealing original colour palette
The restored painting will be there to welcome visitors to the new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries, which opens on Remembrance Sunday
How Princeton rediscovered a Rubens in its collection
Layers of earlier well-meaning but overzealous restoration work had obscured the Old Master’s hand—until now
Efforts to restore dilapidated house museum of African American art in Savannah, Georgia get significant boost
The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists
British wartime control tower to become holiday home after £3.1m restoration
Conservation charity Landmark Trust plans to transform derelict building into unique four-bedroom house, due to open in 2025
Fragile Trinity icon installed at Moscow cathedral in time for Pentecost
President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers
Monumental Cold War-era Karl Marx mosaic restored in east Germany
Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany
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
Secrets of Manhattan's Hispanic Society revealed after six year renovation
The first phase of the redevelopment of the New York museum of art from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries will open in April
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
Vast Pompeii residence unveiled with panel depicting a giant penis
Newly-refurbished home belonged to former slaves who made their wealth in the wine business
Defying gravity—Leaning Tower of Pisa leans like in the early 19th century
Expert stabilisation plan means the Italian landmark has continued to straighten itself
Notre Dame's fresh interior—cleaned with controversial latex paste—will deliver a 'shock', restoration chief promises
Conservationists raise concerns that by cleaning the Paris cathedral's fire-damaged interior stonework it will become "artificially bright"
Artemisia Gentileschi's nude for Michelangelo's museum was censored—a new restoration project will reveal the original work
"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting
Painting damaged in Beirut blast identified as a work by Artemisia Gentileschi
The painting, which is currently being restored at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will ultimately return to the Sursock Palace
Taliban government approves conservation work on historic synagogue in Afghanistan
Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat
Archaeologists restoring monument damaged by Islamic State discover ancient stone carvings unseen for millennia
The seven alabaster reliefs document the military conquests of the Neo-Assyrian King Sennacherib
Louis XV's official mistress leaves the shadows, as restoration of her Versailles apartment reveals secretive life
Madame du Barry, whose life is the subject of a new Netflix film, was born into poverty and sold trinkets on the streets of Paris before joining court circles in her 20s
Top-shelf secrets lie behind the Victorian respectability of newly restored Sambourne House
House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs
Typhoon-battered Yayoi Kusama pumpkin goes back on display in Japan
Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year
Belgian museum looks unchanged after €100m restoration—but an entirely new building has been inserted within
Home to works by Old Masters including Peter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after 11-year makeover
K-Pop star RM funds restoration of traditional Korean bridal gown in collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art—and reveals further gifts
The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage
Whistler’s famed Peacock Room, ‘vibrant and revamped’, reopens following major conservation project
The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre
‘Unexhibitable’ Eva Hesse sculpture will go on view at New York's Guggenheim following restoration
A new exhibition at the museum centres on ‘Expanded Expansion’, a large-scale latex work that had deteriorated in storage for decades
William Beckford’s tower is finally complete, 200 years after the eccentric English architect started construction
The Bath museum, the only surviving example of the reclusive millionaire's architectural achievements, is also showing works from his original art collection
Woman's selfie mishap damages work at Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum
Meanwhile, Mick Jagger's photo in front of Picasso's Guernica makes waves
Ilya Repin's chilling painting of Ivan the Terrible—vandalised in 2018 by a drunk man with a metal pole—goes back on show at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery
The work was temporarily rehung for press, but the public will have to wait until a bulletproof "protective capsule" can be installed
Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her 'stinker' of a husband—reopens after restoration
Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman