Conservation
Heads of state and howling winds welcome Notre-Dame cathedral back to life
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President-Elect Donald Trump were in attendance as President Macron presided over the reopening of the famed Parisian monument
Through the Notre-Dame restoration, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc has now become ‘untouchable’. But at what price?
The five-year restoration of the cathedral has cemented the reign of the 19th-century architect, but his methods may not meet modern standards
Paris heralds the return of Notre-Dame’s bells
The northern belfry’s mighty bells—the oldest having survived the French Revolution—have been restored in Normandy and reinstalled in the bell chamber, from where they will once again ring out
Restorers return La Scala’s coloured facade to former glory—in baby blue and pink
The exterior of the famed Milan opera house underwent its first clean-up in 20 years
Who was buried in Ornans? Restoration of Gustave Courbet’s intriguing masterwork may offer clues
The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting to be even bigger and bolder than it appears now
The architecture graduate tasked with recording Notre-Dame’s renovation—in pencil and chalk
Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes
Green wood, axes and oaks: how ancient skills helped to raise Notre-Dame's new roof
A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest"
Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more
Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire
Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas—podcast
Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica
‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home
Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?
Newly conserved star atlas, a masterpiece of 17th-century Dutch art, to go on display for first time
The Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius, one of the most precious volumes in the Blickling Estate's library, was too fragile to be exhibited
Eike Schmidt unveils restoration and loans projects in Naples after losing Florence electoral bid
The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection
Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica
Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church
'One of the most exciting unknown stories from the Napoleonic Wars': British escapee's military disguise goes on display in London
Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum
Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster
Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish
Paul McCarthy throwing out vast installation no institution or collector stepped in to preserve
Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian
George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters
One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher
Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery
Brighton and Hove Museums hopes to raise at least £10,000 to conserve the Grade I listed building
Campaigners celebrate scrapping of 'monstrous' Stonehenge tunnel scheme
Labour government cancels redevelopment in spending squeeze—but heritage bodies say conservation solutions are still needed
Lost self-portrait by UK painter Norman Cornish discovered behind bar scene
The undated work, which was during conservation work, is going on display in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum in County Durham
Castle in war-torn Yemen partially reopens
Emergency repairs at 11th-century fortress offer a ray of hope in country where dozens of historic sites are damaged or destroyed
Salisbury Cathedral conservation offers window into William Morris’s workshop
Edward Burne-Jones’s stained-glass work has been removed for conservation for the first time
‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris
More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”
Icom names Medea Ekner as director general
Ekner, who was appointed interim director general last year, has 25 years of museum experience in Sweden and New Zealand
Up in arms: Mexican archaeological bureau denounces damage to at least one mummy in Guanajuato’s famous museum
Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”
Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew
His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October
Getting plastered: major conservation work begins on an extraordinary ceiling in Cornwall
Visitors have the unique chance to see the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock up close thanks to a scaffolding platform
‘An unsatisfying status quo’: art centre can neither demolish artist Mary Miss’s outdoor installation nor be forced to repair it, judge rules
Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa
Little-known mural Keith Haring made for an Iowa school goes on public view for first time
Created less than a year before the artist’s death, ‘A Book Full of Fun’ was painstakingly moved to the Stanley Museum of Art while the school undergoes renovation
The €5 tourist tax to enter Venice kicks in: 15,700 tickets sold but this will not solve the city’s problems
Day visitors should pay €25 as for the Uffizi but be made proud to help save the city