Conservation

Pimp my coffin: Ancient Egyptian priest changed sarcophagus as his career progressed

Research for Fitzwilliam Museum's new show reveals that in antiquity funerary arrangements were made well in advance

Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada, could be yours for $13m

Zurich theatre where the movement was founded 100 years ago is facing an uncertain future

Putin dresses-down culture department over state of monuments

Chief cultural adviser leaves post shortly after Russian president takes aim at his art and culture council and praises efforts of heritage activists

Cheikhmous Ali: the Syrian archaeologist who doesn’t take sides

As the fifth anniversary of the Syrian civil war approaches, he continues to document the destruction and looting of the country’s heritage from France and Turkey, with the help of a network of volunteers on the ground

Turner’s house to be restored—but only if crowdfunding cash comes in

Artist designed and built the 203-year-old villa in Twickenham as a retreat from London art world

First church found on slave-trade island

Portuguese structure in Cabo Verde is oldest European building in the tropics

Altamira caves raffle plan is ‘nonsense’, says Spain’s culture secretary

Local tourist minister has proposed auctioning tickets to the heritage site to help raise funds

Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

The €44m renovation and expansion will be fully completed this spring

Fresh look for Australian landscape that defined a nation

New date suggests Frederick McCubbin promoted Australian Impressionism earlier than experts thought

Watts couple’s revamped ‘his and hers’ studios to open in Compton

Visitors can watch conservators at work in the renovated space

How do you clean a masterpiece? Louvre to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s St John the Baptist

The museum is opting for total transparency ahead of a sensitive conservation project

Rapture restored to Bernini’s Baroque masterpiece after clean-up reveals unity of design

Two decades of grime were removed from The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647-52)

Suspected arson at Fontainebleau church

Historic furnishings damaged and around a dozen objects missing or destroyed

Cracking plan to protect Great Wall of China

Survey to identify the most endangered sections will begin in Inner Mongolia

British Library to put very big royal atlas online

Project reveals madness of King George III for his map collection <p> </p>

Eleventh-hour deadline extension saves Pompeii’s huge rescue project

Despite earlier threats to withdraw vital European funding, officials are expected to extend deadline to finance work in 2016 and 2017

The story behind the reattributed drawing by Hieronymus Bosch

Project to mark 500th anniversary of artist’s death upgrades Infernal Landscape to an authentic work

Step inside conceptual artist David Ireland’s greatest masterpiece—his home

House on 500 Capp Street in San Francisco will become an arts space, archive and study centre

Icom releases red list of Libyan antiquities at risk

With the country in “chaos” because of civil war, museum council warns officials, institutions and the art trade of the kinds of objects that could be looted

For world-class Art Deco, visit Shanghai

Chinese city is first in Asia to host global congress

The price tag of contemporary art is just the beginning of what it will cost you

The Art Preservation Index wants collectors to know that much art today is made from materials that will deteriorate fast