#artconservation — Public Fediverse posts

Clio’s laurel wreath glows against her deep blue robe, its gold trim catching the light like scattered stars. These wings—once dulled by centuries of grime—now shimmer with the precision of a conservator’s hand, each feather restored to its original luster.

If history is written by the victors, what stories might this muse choose to celebrate today?

#ClevelandMuseumofArt #ArtConservation #BaroquePainting
https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.6.5

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

We took the back off a Michelangelo and it took 7 months | Saving Michelangelo’s Epifania Cartoon - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpbZ7HXP7Q

#Art #ArtConservation #Michelangelo

Our beautiful Joan Mitchell painting has been a highlight of our collection since we bought it in 1974, the year after the artist painted it. But it needs a little TLC. Rather than send it off to be conserved in a lab, we're doing that live and in public. Read more about this cool project:

https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/joan-mitchells-close-to-undergo-public-conservation-in-georgia/

#JoanMitchell #ArtConservation

MIT researcher Alex Kachkine developed a method to physically restore original artworks using printed, removable digital overlays. A 15th-century oil painting was repaired in just 3.5 hours—66x faster than traditional methods.
#AIinArt #DigitalRestoration #ArtConservation #Museums #CulturalHeritage #HumanitiesTech
https://news.mit.edu/2025/restoring-damaged-paintings-using-ai-generated-mask-0611

The Nature article (vol. 642, pp. 343–350, 2025) presents a method to physically apply digital inpainting using a bilayer pigment film. 5,612 losses in a 15th-century painting were restored in just 3.5 hours—66 times faster than traditional methods. This technique could help bring thousands of artworks back into public view.
#DigitalRestoration #ArtConservation #Kunstgeschichte #DigitalHumanities #Nature #CulturalHeritage #Museums
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09045-4

Cindy Sherman is Destroying and Reprinting Her Damaged Photographs https://petapixel.com/2025/06/16/cindy-sherman-is-destroying-and-reprinting-her-damaged-photographs/ #artconservation #damagedphotos #cindysherman #Culture #News #moma

Have you seen this?
Closer to Van Eyck offers stunning high-resolution images and technical studies of the Ghent Altarpiece — a landmark in digital art history and conservation.
https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/

#DigitalArtHistory #ArtConservation #CulturalDataScience #VanEyck

MIT News: Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”. “In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/mit-news-have-a-damaged-painting-restore-it-in-just-hours-with-an-ai-generated-mask/

Bananas! Chocolate! Flowers! The Fine Art of Presenting and Preserving Perishable Sculptures.

Ahead of the sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s $1.5 million banana, we look at contemporary art's fascination with art that goes bad—and how to conserve it.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/perishable-art-2569222 #art #artconservation

It's #AskAConservator day today, so feel free to ask me anything you'd like!

Ideally about conservation or working in this field, but I'll allow tangents. 😆

#conservation #conservators #ArtConservation

Breaking the rules of oil painting 🎨

Conservation Fellow Maria Carolina Peña-Mariño talks us through painter Richard Wilson's experimentation with oil painting, and the daunting process involved in reinstating his magnificent landscape.

Watch the full film here: https://bit.ly/47798Kh

National Gallery @NationalGallery #art #museums #artconservation #painting #oilpainting #conservation

📢 Call for hosts: new #internships programme 📢

Icon is launching a new programme of fully-funded internships aimed at specialist skill areas considered ‘at risk’

They're seeking 3 orgs to provide opportunities covering the following #conservation practice areas:
🎻 musical instruments
📜 manuscripts

Host requirements:
🇬🇧 must be in the UK
📝 must have insurance + H&S protocols
🗓️ placements to be 3, 6 or 12 months

More info here: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/new-internships-programme-launched.html

#ArtConservation #HeritageConservation

Arsenic and old paint: Analyzing pigments in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch - Enlarge / Rembrandt's The Night Watch underwent many chemical and mecha... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2039017 #artconservation #thenightwatch #chemistry #rembrandt #pigments #science #physics

Conservation of Rubens' Judgement of Paris reveals drastic changes by an unknown artist, altering its narrative.

After 14 months of work, the @NationalGallery displays it today, showing Rubens' original baby hand and leg outlines.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/18/out-of-the-murk-conservation-reveals-lost-details-of-rubens-acclaimed-judgement-of-paris

@TheArtNewspaper #art #painting #conservation #artconservation #Rubens #museums #artgallery

Well this is a lovely start to the week!

My first ever book contribution is out there in the world: I wrote one of the case studies (Low Cost, High Fun) in this fabulous new #book about engaging young kids with #ArtConservation! :blob_book:

You can get it from here if you feel so inclined: https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Conservation-for-Early-Learners-Outreach-and-Engagement-with-the-Next-Generation/Chase-Hoffman-Lasnoski/p/book/9781032365923

#conservation #books #conservators #publishing #EarlyLearners

MoMA #art

What can the back of a painting tell us about the life it’s led?

The over 100-year-old stretcher that backs Picasso’s “Three Musicians” helped our team discover details about the painting’s history and global travels. #artconservation #learnontiktok #picasso #art

O outro regresso da próxima semana é o do Ciclo Doutoral de Conversas do #IN2PAST que, desta vez, viaja até Guimarães, com um pézinho em Lisboa e outro em Évora.

Explicamos: Milene Gil (HERCULES) e Mariana Pinto dos Santos (IHA) vão colocar as ciências do património e a história da arte em diálogo, num cruzamento de saberes que irá ainda mais além com os comentários dos colegas do Lab2PT.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/ciclo-doutoral-in2past-06/

#Histodons #ArtHistory #ArtConservation #AlmadaNegreiros #HistóriaDaArte

Na próxima semana, teremos vários regressos:

logo no dia 2 de Abril, regressa o ciclo “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras”, com Alicia Iglesias Cumplido (Universidad de Sevilla) como convidada e o restauro de azulejos do Alcázar de Sevilha como tema.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-04/

#Histodons #ArtConservation #Tiles #Seville #AlcázarDeSevilla #Sevilha #ConservaçãoERestauro #Azulejos

No final do dia de amanhã, a partir de qualquer parte do mundo, poderão conhecer um pouco mais do premiado projecto ALMADA, cuja equipa estudou e restaurou os murais de Almada Negreiros da Gare da Rocha do Conde de Óbidos.

É a sessão inaugural do 5º ciclo “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras”, com Milene Gil (Laboratório HERCULES).

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-01/

#Histodons #ArtHistory #Heritage #ArtConservation #AlmadaNegreiros #Património #ConservaçãoERestauro

What can the back of a painting tell us about the life it’s led?

The over 100-year-old stretcher that backs Picasso’s “Three Musicians” helped MoMA's team discover details about the painting’s history and global travels. #artconservation #learnontiktok #picasso #art #MoMA

A quinta edição do ciclo de videoconferências “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras” começa a 20 de Fevereiro.

Milene Gil foi a investigadora convidada para falar sobre o projecto ALMADA (Laboratório HERCULES) e da importância e alcance prático de investigações em ciências do património.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-01/

#Histodons #ArtConservation #Murals #ArtHistory #Heritage #AlmadaNegreiros #HeritageConservation #Paintings #ConservaçãoERestauro #Murais #Património

Alright, alright, we can't contain ourselves any longer!

Let us introduce our new podcast team members to you:

Meet Liz Hébert, one of our TWO new permanent co-hosts! 👋

Liz joins us as Emerging Professional Co-Host and she's a paintings conservator based in #Amsterdam. 🎨 🇳🇱

Liz used to host the ECPodcast for emerging professionals so may be a familiar voice!

#TheCWordPodcast #conservators #ArtConservation #ArtConservators #podcasting #conservation #paintings #conservator #TheNetherlands

X-ray imaging of The Night Watch reveals previously unknown lead layer - Enlarge / Rembrandt's The Night Watch underwent many chemical and mecha... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1990394 #operationnightwatch #artconservation #dutchgoldenage #thenightwatch #dutchmasters #x-rayimaging #rembrandt #science #physics #art

Preserving history with math? Absolutely! Art conservationists use mathematical analysis to restore and protect historical artifacts. It's a blend of aesthetics and algorithms. #ArtConservation #Mathematics

Leonardo da Vinci used toxic pigments when he painted the Mona Lisa - Enlarge / A tiny fleck of paint, taken from the Mona Lisa, is revealing... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1978513 #infraredspectroscopy #chemicalanalysis #x-raydiffraction #artconservation #leonardodavinci #chemistry #monalisa #pigments #science

X-rays reveal hidden “first drafts” of ancient Egyptian paintings at Theban Necropolis - Enlarge / Portrait of Ramesses II in Nakhtamun tomb, Chief of the Altar... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952836 #x-rayfluorescence #thebannecropolis #artconservation #ancientegypt #xrfmapping #chemistry #science #art

New episode! 🎨

In the last episode of the season we’re joined by Professor Aviva Burnstock and Polly Saltmarsh as we uncover the topic of paintings conservation: something that certainly mystifies both Jenny and Kloe. 🖼️ What can paintings be? How do we examine them? And what do we do when sticky toffee pudding sauce gets involved?

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2023/06/28/s13e08-paintings-conservation/

#conservation #podcasts #conservators #PaintingsConservation #restoration #paintings #ArtConservation

Beer byproducts were popular canvas primers for Danish Golden Age artists - Enlarge / Two Russian Ships of the Line Saluting by Christoffer Wilhelm... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1941236 #massspectrometry #artconservation #danishgoldenage #heritagescience #proteomics #culture #science #physics #beer #art