Conservation & Preservation
Flood-damaged tapestries by Miro return to Venice museum in time for exhibition opening
The two works at Palazzo Zaguri were found submerged in water on Monday night
Top museum directors on the challenges of climate change and mass tourism
Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics
Warship figureheads restored ahead of opening for new Plymouth arts complex
Royal Navy statues are being made shipshape and ready for installation at The Box, opening in 2020
Alaskan dancer helps the Met solve riddle of the Yup’ik mask
Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object
Warhol's newly restored 102-canvas work Shadows goes on show in New York
Dia's presentation coincides with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on the artist
Soane Museum starts crowdfunding campaign to restore valued frame of a Reynolds painting
Institution hopes to raise £15,000 to clean and conserve wooden structure surrounding The Snake in the Grass
Graff portrait of Saxon noblewoman shakes off centuries of grime and varnish
After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
Family reunited: US exhibition brings together the pieces of cut-up 17th-century Frans Hals portrait
Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio shows three paintings confirmed as one original work by recent conservation
Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings
The conservation projects include the National Art Schools in Havana, the Gateway Arch in St Louis and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California
Titian's Crucifixion work torn after falling from the wall in Spain's Royal Monastery
Sixteenth-century painting of Christ on the cross was rushed immediately for conservation
Death triumphs: Museo del Prado completes challenging two-year-long Bruegel restoration
Newly conserved danse macabre work travels to Vienna for major exhibition marking 450 years since the artist's death
Spain tells vandal to Kiss off after Santiago de Compostela statue defaced
Authorities vow to find rock fan who damaged Medieval statue
Turin’s Chapel of the Holy Shroud—almost entirely destroyed by fire—reopens after €30m restoration
State-of-the-art conservation project that took 21 years brings masterpiece of Baroque architecture back to its former glory
Is Bergamo’s rediscovered Mantegna linked to a triptych in the Uffizi?
Accademia Carrara’s curator Giovanni Valagussa explains how he put “two and two” together
Chicago resurrects its master craftsman
Edgar Miller finally gets his due as the city prepares to celebrate the overlooked designer’s eclectic work
German court orders restorer to pay dealer €26,000 after eight-year dispute
Munich-based dealer claimed paintings he sent for cleaning had been ruined
The portrait miniatures conservator who sees the bigger picture
We spoke to the V&A's Alan Derbyshire about Nicholas Hilliard's trick for painting the perfect ruby and why collector's need to look at their miniatures often
Syria's Palmyra to be ready for tourists by summer 2019 as cost to rebuild Homs reaches $2bn
Authorities says they have received "good offers from the world powers" to help conserve ancient sites
Conservation starts on Liverpool’s Neolithic stones
The Calderstones are being studied, recorded and restored before their reinstallation
Turkey's Göbekli Tepe: is this the world’s first architecture?
Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy
Tate restores colour and depth to John Nash painting
The picture is on display in Tate Britain's show Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
A 19th-century bikini from Iran goes on show in the UK in time for the summer
The garment was conserved for the Holburne Museum's exhibition of objects collected by the “intrepid” traveller Ellen Tanner
Berlin restores murals neglected for more than a century
Only ten of the wall paintings—created in housing complexes to offer visual relief from the booming German capital—remain
Syrian museums seek Russian expertise to restore destroyed Palmyra sculptures
Ancient city occupied by Islamic State was retaken by Syrian army with Russian support in 2017
Demolish or restore discoloured Taj Mahal, India's Supreme Court tells government
White marble monument, a Unesco World Heritage site, is turning yellow due to pollution and insect dung
Relic of first-century pope found in a rubbish tip is donated to Westminster Cathedral
Rubbish collectors found the bone fragment of Clement I in London
Aleppo's reconstruction 'deserves international resources'
Aga Khan Trust for Culture calls for condemnation of destruction to be reinforced by help on the ground
Entente cordiale: governments sign deal securing loan of Bayeux Tapestry to the UK in 2022
Cross-channel collaboration involves translating, conserving and digitalising the historic embroidery
Huge disparity in estimates to repair vandalised Ivan the Terrible painting
Ilya Repin’s masterpiece in Moscow’s Tretyakov gallery was struck with a metal pole in May
What colour is this dress? Guggenheim reveals Manet painting after three years of restoration
New York museum has removed varnish and overpainting to let the artist’s brushstrokes “sing”





























