Conservation & Preservation
The public may decide the fate of Leonardo’s “Adoration of the Magi”
Antonio Paolucci states he will halt the Uffizi’s planned restoration of the painting if he hears convincing arguments as to why it should not take place
The Hereford Screen, the V&A’s greatest hidden treasure, to be revealed this month
Gilbert Scott’s massive Gothic Revival screen has been restored for £750,000 and goes on public view for the first time in over three decades
Slow progress on restoring war-torn Croatia
Work is underway, but worst hit town Vukovar still 'deserted'
How to save the stones of Venice?
The sculpture that adorns the churches and palaces of Venice is being damaged beyond retrieval by pollution and vandalism
How the British Museum's maintenance procedures for the Parthenon marbles have changed
After the sculptures' surfaces were damaged in the 1930s due to improper care, the museum has cleaned up its act
The Wigmore Castle project represents a radical new approach to conservation and “sustainable tourism"
Holistic archaeology at Wigmore Castle
MoMA teams up with Reina Sofia for research and conservation
The two institutions already have a strong bond due to many shared exhibitions, and this partnership is set to expand
The Last Supper restoration: What the media said
The conclusion of the twenty-year project to restore Leonardo’s famous fresco has made headlines around the world The Art Newspaper presents a selection of reactions from the newspapers
Terracotta warriors attacked by mould
Tourism is causing a conservation nightmare
A campaign is underway to raise funds for the conservation of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s metalwork masterpiece, the Hereford Screen
Since its removal from Hereford Cathedral over three decades ago, it has languished in store, slowly deteriorating.
The haphazard methods of art restoration over the past 400 years
Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration
Museum and National Trust approaches to textile conservation
A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium
Where underwater treasure-hunters go, legislation must follow: Unesco's proposal explained
Unesco is calling for a global treaty to prevent commercial interests from destroying shipwrecks found in international waters
New site must be identified for Parthenon, as authorities deem its days on the Acropolis numbered
High levels of pollution in the area are diminishing the marble
Restored revolutionary Bolivian murals by Miguel Alandia Pantoja remain homeless
As chief restorer of Andorra and consultant to Unesco, Guillamet was invited to save these murals. Months later, as revolution brewed, the paintings were abandoned. Seventeen years later, and this remains the case
UNESCO has named 37 more sites of global importance
A list of the most important additions
New laser technology for painting restoration
Revolutionary non-contact cleaning method to be unveiled this month at Liverpool’s laser conservation conference
Drilling will make Venice sink twelve inches, warn experts
This month Italian government reaches decision on national oil company’s plan to extract gas from Adriatic
Raphael’s use of shading revealed as the “Parnassus” restoration is almost completed
The Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican shows the master at his best
Suffocation is the new non-toxic way of eliminating insect pests
Getty conservators research new methods of protecting museum works from pests
National Trust finds rare Gothic altarpiece in stables
Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century
Exemplary £2 million refurbishment of the silver galleries at the V&A opens this month
Please touch, learn—and enjoy
A symbol of the city rises from the rubble as Dresden's Frauenkirche is reconstructed
The crypt of the baroque Frauenkirche was reopened last month, with an altar by Anish Kapoor
Peanuts this ain’t: the V&A's Raphael Court to reopen
Refurbishment has cost £2 million
The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger
£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece
The Renaissance mystery of Sibenik’s dome
Sainsbury money is helping restore the fifteenth-century, Venetian-style masterpiece shelled in 1991
Save a medieval rarity spared by the Reformation and Civil War: Thornham Parva retable in urgent need of conservation
Unless a small Suffolk church can raise £168,000 to conserve one of the earliest English paintings, it may have to sell it
Interview with Federico Mayor, UNESCO director general: Surveying the role of UNESCO
“A way of thinking that has visible form”
Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO, described the organisation as “Affirming an intellectual and moral solidarity in the mind of humanity” last month
The Art Newspaper surveys the successes and failures of the much criticised organisation