Conservation
In a first, Unesco gives Frank Lloyd Wright buildings World Heritage status
US architect's distinctive designs are among 29 designees recognised for their “outstanding value to humanity”
Dramatic speech in Baku challenges Unesco’s support for damaging Venice cruise ship decision
The non-governmental organisation Europa Nostra recommends that the World Heritage Committee put the lagoon city on the endangered list
Spot the horse: imaging technology reveals hidden secrets of Dutch Golden Age paintings
New algorithm, developed by scientists at the National Gallery of Art, precisely aligns layered images to reveal compositional differences
How the artist Robert Rauschenberg got his goat
Swedish conservators allow Monogram to travel to London, New York and San Francisco for a major traveling survey
Sydney Opera House roof gets special soundcheck
Getty grant helps to modernise tap-test of city’s tile-clad landmark
London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris
Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay
Leonardo Da Vinci’s St John the Baptist back on view at the Louvre after a thorough—but careful—cleaning
The ten-month project faced “major media pressure” because of earlier restorations of the artist’s work at the museum
Vasari’s Last Supper back on display 50 years after Florence Flood
Panel painting was submerged in polluted water for 12 hours when the Arno burst its banks in 1966
50th anniversary of the Florence Flood: Memories from a drowned world
An oral history project on the 1966 disaster captures conservators’ stories of weeping officials and guards unknowingly treading on an Old Master
Rodin’s working methods revealed as his dancers give up their secrets
Scrutiny of clay figures and plaster casts shows how artist reused limbs and torsos
How the Townley Venus's thumb was knocked off at the British Museum
One of institution's most important sculptures, now restored, was damaged by external catering team setting up for corporate event
The man who spent 40 years preserving Palmyra’s past
Polish archaeologist Michal Gawlikowski on his hopes for the war-torn city and his friendship with murdered scholar Khaled al-Asaad
Concrete-encased Cadillac stops traffic in Chicago
Restored Fluxus work launches city-wide celebration of public art
Croatian heritage has a friend in Britain
Over the past 25 years, the International Trust for Croatian Monuments has raised more than £500,000 to repair the ravages of war
‘Rescue archaeologists’ head to Iraq
First group of Iraqis trained by British Museum staff return home
New York museum and galleries celebrate Richard Pousette-Dart centenary
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the late artist’s foundation has also undertaken the conservation of his hospital triptych Presence, Healing Circles
Researchers burst Moholy-Nagy’s bubbles at the Guggenheim
Conservators and plastics experts worked together to examine the warps and flaws in the artist's Plexiglas experiments
Artist transforms French cathedral treasury into an Aladdin’s cave of colour
Jean-Michel Othoniel used his trademark coloured beads to create an immersive environment
Curtain rises on Buddha restoration
Visitors to Boston will see conservators at work
Weimar blazes a trail with restoration of burned books
Library has saved half a million pages since major fire of 2004
Science, then and now, reveals marvels of Medieval manuscripts
Fitzwilliam’s anniversary exhibition breaks ground across the centuries
Cleaning of Chandos Portrait could confirm what Shakespeare looked like
The relic-like painting of the Bard, which hung in the Duke's Theatre in the 1660s, was the first work donated to London's National Portrait Gallery upon its founding