Emily Sharpe
The race to digitise the world’s heritage
Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years
Cold War spy photos help locate archaeological sites across the globe
Major grant to expand project that uses images from Corona military satellite system to pinpoint archaeological remains
Richard III to move from car park to cathedral
Following DNA testing, confirmed remains of the last Plantagenet King will be moved from original burial site to Leicester Cathedral
MoMA shows Nixon’s home movies
“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders
Libyan shrines under attack as militant Islamists target Muslim mausoleums
Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as clashes turn violent
Why art conservation needs to be left to the experts
A Spanish grandmother’s handiwork recently made headlines, but Ajax and rainstorms have contributed to other botched treatments by amateurs
Prosthetic technology in sport on display at the Wellcome Collection ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics
The Wellcome Collection puts its best (false) foot forward
Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us
Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.
California and New Mexico murals go digital with the Getty
Painstakingly documented by Ernest Long, this archive may be all that is left of many
The many faces of medieval women on view in Bilbao
Elegant, humorous, erotic—and liberated
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
Restoration at the National Gallery shows Leonardo in a new light
The Virgin of the Rocks minus fog
Jury clears Britons of Da Vinci theft extortion
Three lawyers and two private detectives are now off the hook
"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies
A new use for airport screening technology
Terracotta warriors survive Chile earthquake
A group of the soldiers were on loan to the La Moneda Palace in Santiago
Fondation Beyeler unveils plans to allow observation of Matisse restoration
A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes
An advance in iron preservation aids conservators
Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique
Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery
US scholars, conservators and scientists collaborate to prove that a “14th-century manuscript” is a skilled fake
Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection
Hollywood technology used to examine new Herculaneum find
Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science
Farhad Farjam opens private museum in Dubai
The Iranian businessman has an extensive collection of Islamic and modern art
“A quantum leap” for Australia as collector John Kaldor donates $35m-worth of art to AGNSW
Kaldor has donated work by Rauschenberg, Christo, LeWitt, Koons, Judd, and Gursky, among many others
Art's Most Popular: Single work by Leonardo attracts over 10,000 Japanese viewers a day
For the fourth year the Tokyo National Museum has the highest exhibition attendance, but is only 17th in our list of the most visited museums last year
US collector Brooke Allen returns relics sacred to Kenyan tribe
The works were part of an estate the collector inherited from her parents
Khmer sculpture handed back to Cambodia
An attempt to smuggle it was thwarted in the US
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is to display Spanish colonial works
Exhibitions will be held for months due to long-term loan
Statues by the elder Calder get laser treatment
These conservation efforts removed the many years of corrosion built up on the works
Lauder raises $190m cash as Bloch-Bauer Klimts come up for sale
Austria and Los Angeles had both hoped to keep the works
Collector pays £1 million for oil sketches of British Royal Family
14 preparatory sketches of members of the royal family