NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
An ancient Roman road may lie beneath Venice’s lagoon, researchers say
Team using sonar technology have found evidence of structures and settlements on the seafloor
NewsConservation & Preservation
Ageing plastic from Communist East Germany comes under the microscope in Getty research project
Scientists will study how Soviet-era household objects "made to last 30 or 40 years" can be preserved
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
NewsScience
Scientists unveil 'whitest paint ever'—and museums can't wait to get their hands on it
The material, which reflects 98% of light, will have significant use in cooling buildings and fighting climate change
NewsScience
Dr Fauci’s 3-D printed coronavirus model given to Smithsonian
The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History
PreviewExhibitions
Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI
Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity
BlogDiary
Number one priority: NASA will give designers $35,000 for a toilet that will work on the moon
AnalysisContemporary art
Pandemic art: how artists have depicted disease
As the coronavirus forces us to endure an unprecedented time of distant social contact, art can remind us, assure us, of our interconnectedness
NewsConservation
New secrets of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to be revealed online next week
Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique
ReviewBooks
Of fossils, prisms and volcanoes: the scientific and imaginative investigations of the polymath Goethe
This extensive volume explores the relationship between the German writer's visual imagination and his fascination with natural science
ReviewBook Shorts
A beautiful compendium of Early Modern scientific instruments
This exhibition catalogue shows European technological discoveries from the 16th to the 19th century
ReviewBook Shorts
Book reveals the ways in which artists helped make scientific discoveries
From the 17th to the end of the 19th century natural history depended on illustrations for clarification
ArchiveTechnology
Ancient cities rise again: Introducing virtual archaeology
Technology developed by a California-based firm has made it possible to walk through vanished sites.
AnalysisClimate Change
Venice has no official plan for how to deal with climate change
A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action
ReviewBook Shorts
Book looks at the persistence of the scroll throughout the Middle Ages
Even when the codex became ubiquitous, scrolls held a special place for the written word
ReviewBooks
Coming out of one’s shell: new book explores overlooked mollusc art by naturalist's daughters
Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers
ReviewBooks
William Hunter and the enlightened art of science
A new publication brings together the Scottish surgeon's art collection for the first time in many years
ReviewMedia & broadcast
A man-made landscape is writ large on the screen in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
After its US premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the visually stunning documentary heads to Berlin
NewsHeritage
How pioneering climate-change science dated one of Britain's oldest houses
Landmark Trust's restoration finds that oak timber used to build Welsh house was felled in the winters of 1418-19 and 1420-21
NewsUnesco
Goodbye Venice, goodbye Ravenna, goodbye Ferrara, goodbye Carthage?
Many World Heritage Sites around the Mediterranean are at grave risk from sea-level rise by 2100, report says
PreviewExhibitions
When the avant-garde met E=mc2: the story behind Dimensionism
Supported by prominent figures in its day, the little known movement is at last being rescued from obscurity
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Uffizi launches Leonardo da Vinci 500th celebrations across Italy
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
NewsOpenings
Art meets science in new gallery at King’s College London
Free venue joins a growing global network of Science Gallery spaces
FeatureArtist interview
Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it
Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence
NewsGermany
Gerhard Richter creates Foucault pendulum for Münster church
Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"
NewsAuctions
Dinosaur skeleton previously unknown to science auctioned in the Eiffel Tower
Aguttes sold the fossil to an anonymous buyer, who may name the new species, despite protests from paleontologists
NewsScience and Art
Artists deliver climate-change message that time is running out
They are increasingly sounding the alarm on global warming, through new works and collaborations with scientists
News
The dark web, surveillance dolls and Van Gogh’s zombie ear: technology’s role in art debated at Boston conference
While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of pitfalls with cutting-edge work
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Cern’s resident artists to create work for Art Basel
Darkroom installation will use data collected at the particle physics centre
InterviewArtist interview
Robot wars: Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories
The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York
NewsConservation & Preservation
Met’s science labs shed light on other museums’ collections
New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant
BlogIn the frame
A Syrian in space
The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station
News
There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal
Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work
NewsExhibitions
Sergei Korolev: the unknown winner of the space race
As the countdown to London's Cosmonauts show begins, we speak to the daughter of the rocket scientist who blasted Yuri Gagarin into space
NewsOpenings
Pompeian frescoes cured with antibiotics
Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration
NewsScience
Oxford's Weston Library to dust for hyperspectral fingerprints
Researchers to use imaging technology to identify invisible-to-the-eye artefacts
ArchiveArt fairs
Art Basel Miami Beach to be studied for Swiss sociology project
Collectors and dealers alike must prepare for questioning as art-money relationship comes under the microscope
ArchiveArt & Technology
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
ArchiveAncient Egypt
"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies
A new use for airport screening technology
ArchiveArt & Technology
An advance in iron preservation aids conservators
Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique
ArchivePhotographs
Stopping the passage of time: Colour photography conservation
A new technique aims to prevent colour prints from fading—but is it legal?
ArchiveBooks
Book review: Kirsh and Levenson's "Seeing through paintings: physical examination in art-historical studies"
A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy
ArchiveUnesco
Deliberation over ownership of submerged vessels and their booty at the bottom of the ocean leads to Unesco intervention
An estimated three million shipwrecks lay undiscovered. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable, despite developments in deep-sea exploration technology
ArchiveInternet art
Passport to the universe: Virtual reality at the Hayden Planetarium
Clare Henry saw the latest high-tech astronomical display at in New York and says scientists have taken art to new heights
ArchiveScience and Art
New laser technology for painting restoration
Revolutionary non-contact cleaning method to be unveiled this month at Liverpool’s laser conservation conference
ArchiveTechnology
One of the most advanced and sophisticated computer-based analyses of an ancient landscape in Europe is taking the excavation out of discovery
To dig or not to dig?
ArchiveExhibitions
"China: cradle of knowledge" officially opens in Birmingham 25 February
Astonishing science and technology show from Peking
ArchiveScience and Art
Archaeologists delighted as Schliemann's Trojan treasure becomes available for research
British scientists describe the new techniques which could be used to investigate the recently revealed gold and silver hoard