The Art Newspaper

Conserving contemporary art: immortality starts here

Goats, guns and roofing sheets: how to look after art’s unusual materials

Published online: 09 May 2013

Boston museum sets its sights 20ft high

Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls an 18th-century English drawing room

Published online: 08 May 2013

Auckland Castle opens with grand ambitions

Historic home of the bishops of Durham is restored, hopes to draw tourists with its exotic collection of Zurbaráns

Published online: 02 May 2013

Fight to preserve Egypt’s ancient Jewish sites

New leader wants the government to recognise that “Jewish temples are like the pyramids and the Sphinx”— an important part of the country’s history

Published online: 26 April 2013

Tunnels discovered under Mussolini’s former headquarters

Restoration team at Palazzo Venezia find dictator’s planned hiding place

Published online: 17 April 2013

Gallery:  Framing Vermeer

Vermeer’s Woman in Blue reading a Letter (1663-4) has had four frames in the past 170 years. Astonishingly, all survive at the Rijksmuseum—offering a unique opportunity to study the impact of framing on the Delft master’s work.

Gallery:  Mirrored Mona Lisa

A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture. Here, the two works are compared to each other.

Unicorn tapestries recreated

The famous cycle of seven, early 16th-century Netherlandish tapestries, “The Hunt of the Unicorn”, has been recreated at a cost of £2m as...

How do you say "shoo kitty" in Latin?

Anyone with a cat and a laptop at home will feel sympathy for the medieval scribe who worked on this manuscript. The photo was posted on...

A bloody mess averted

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, had to remove Marc Quinn’s frozen sculpture Self 2, 1996, from the...

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