Conservation, Restoration & Care of Artworks

Available in a limited print run of 1,000 setsthe stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern Ch...

Master sculptor Auguste Rodin''s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at...

A beautifully illustrated study of the caves at Dunhuang, exploring how this important Buddhist site has been visualized from its creation to today...

The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize th...

The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. M...

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the p...

For decades, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) has been working to revitalize the social, cultural, and economic strength of communities in the...

To speak of restoration in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in o...

Almost every museum in the world is confronted with plastics in their collections. Research initiatives and knowledge concerning the conservation o...

Discover the extraordinary stories behind the world's missing works of art.Travel back in time to discover works of art that have vanished from the...

In 1966, the most destructive flood in the history of Venice temporarily submerged the city and threatened its extraordinary art and architecture. ...

A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect p...

Although Franz Kline was one of the seminal figures of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he is less well known than contemporaries such...

Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk-these are just a few of the biological materials that some contemporary arti...

This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) ...

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for the manner i...