Historic pigments in the Straus Center collection at Harvard Art Museums, which is reopening this Sunday (photograph by Zak Jensen, all images courtesy Harvard Art Museums) When the Harvard Art ...
A monumental masterpiece by Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is about to undergo a major conservation effort. The painting, The Blinding of Samson (1636), is one of the ...
Daisy Diamond grew up just outside Philadelphia with a deep love of art and a curiosity that couldn’t be confined to a single path. “I tried out many jobs that you can do with art,” she recalls, “art ...
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When second-year WUDPAC Fellow Taryn Nurse, a painting major, began work on an 1866 portrait by 19th-century English artist Simeon Solomon, she had no idea it would turn into a detective story. The ...
The masterpieces on display inside art museums are not static. They are organic. In microscopic ways, they expand and contract. They are susceptible to damage from light, humidity and time. Their ...
Before conservation (Frans Schwartz (1850-1917), Annunciation, 1899, etching, 8 1/16 x 6 1/16 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 2014.) (Photo courtesy of Christina Thomas) After ...
At the Huntington Art Gallery, a small crowd forms around senior paintings conservator Christina O’Connell’s miniature makeshift arena. As part of “Project Blue Boy,” a year-long exhibition on the ...
Anupam Sah (R) is the Head of Art Conservation at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya's Art Conservation Centre (L) in Mumbai. (Robert Cutts/Flickr) Join Asia Society India Centre's ...
Behind-the-scenes looks at the science that goes into art conservation so we all can (potentially) experience the original work for ourselves rather than looking at a digitised scan, a poster-sized ...