Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time https://arstechni.ca/U2YL #artconservation #chemistry #pigments #Culture #Science

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

BDG feature: Preserving the Sacred Treasures in Our Care with Treasure Caretaker Training

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/5n7v9cfz

#buddhism #tibetanbuddhism #vajrayana #usa #nyc #newyork #rubinmuseum #buddhistart #buddhistheritage #artconservation #heritageconservation

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

🎨 Art Alert! 🚫🧽 Caught on canvas: A cleaner ‘washing’ a painting with a mop! 😱 A curator’s nightmare unfolds in an art gallery… but don’t worry, it’s just a bit of fun! 😂 Remember, masterpieces need expert care—or step by step DIY cleaning here! 🛑✋ For art’s sake, let’s leave it to the pros. 🖼️💡 #ArtConservation #NoMopsAllowed #ProCleanersOnly
Having done some research, here are step-by-step instructions for cleaning it:

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