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23 July 2025

The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool

Aeneas, named after a hero from Greek and Roman mythology, can calculate when inscriptions were carved and predict lost text

Garry Shaw
4 July 2025

Mechanical engineer develops AI-generated digital masks to restore damaged paintings

Alex Kachkine, a PhD student at MIT, art-lover and self-taught restorer, wanted to provide conservators with another “tool in the toolbox”

Kimberly Hatfield
27 March 2025

Fra Angelico Deposition altarpiece back on display in Florence after transformative two-year restoration

The work has resumed its place at the Museo di San Marco after conservation work that has brought the Italian Renaissance artist’s masterly skill with colour and form to the fore

Alexander Morrison
12 February 2025

New heritage body will use AI tools to help protect key sites from war and environmental crises

HeritageWatch.AI aims to provide real-time data, based on analysis of satellite imagery, to plan and deploy effective disaster management

Louis Jebb
19 December 2024

Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2025

The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo

Andrew Pulver, Gabriella Angeleti, Allison C. Meier, Marigold Warner and Dale Berning Sawa
13 November 2024

Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

Gareth Harris
8 November 2024

Prague to get new museum dedicated to Alphonse Mucha

The institution will be housed in the Savarin Palace, close to the city’s historic Old Town Square

Richard Unwin
18 March 2024

Shiver me timbers: AI speeds up repair of historic British warship HMS Victory

Technology is being used to create an image database of vessel—as acres of wooden planking damaged by time, water and insects are to be replaced

Maev Kennedy
21 December 2023

The must-see exhibitions in 2024: from two Michelangelo shows in London to the Met's most expensive painting

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

Scarlet Cheng, Louis Jebb, Hannah McGivern, Catherine Hickley, Andrew Pulver, Aimee Dawson, J.S. Marcus, Gareth Harris and José da Silva
11 September 2023

A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?

Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

Gareth Harris
22 April 2022

Venice Biennale 2022: the worst art on show in the city

There's a lot to see in Venezia—save precious time and skip these

Alison Cole, José da Silva, Gareth Harris, Hannah McGivern and Tom Seymour
31 March 1995

Leonardo flattened by heated metal rollers: A short history of the many abuses suffered by The Last Supper

The masterwork at the Santa Maria delle Grazie re-opens to the public this month as restoration near completion

Giuseppe Basile
27 September 2019

Man who stole painting in broad daylight from Moscow museum is sentenced to three years in prison

Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says

Sophia Kishkovsky
26 October 2017

Three to see: New York

From ancient Crete to contemporary China

Gabriella Angeleti and Victoria Stapley-Brown
13 August 2018

Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work

The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier

Ruth Lopez
5 November 2020

Historic churches of Naples are at risk from sinkholes

Researchers have identified nine buildings that require a “quick response” and a further 57 places of worship that could suffer from future cavity collapses

Garry Shaw
18 August 2021

With the Taliban’s take-over of Afghanistan, it is the diversity of intangible cultural heritage that is most at threat

The music, poetry, traditions and crafts that are kept alive by communities are especially vulnerable under the group’s ultra-conservative rule and the economic chaos of continuing conflict

Bastien Varoutsikos
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