In the 2020 mystery book The Art of Deception (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, 4) by Leonard Goldberg, it is 1916 in London and an individual has been slashing valuable Renaissance portraits in art galleries and private homes. Various ideas are suggested as the reason for the...
Many novels featuring art restorers or conservators are more concerned with plot than with details about how they do their work. On the other hand, Ready-money Mortiboy: A Matter-of-fact Story , by Sir Walter Besant and James Rice, first published as a serial in 1872, gives a detailed,...
Whether or not one has seen( or is going to see) the recently released Wonder Woman movie, WW84 , one must read Sanchita Balachandran’s review of it published today on Hyperallergic . She discusses what is cringe worthy in terms of the behavior of museum personnel and museum policies and what...
As an avid reader of works of fiction that feature conservators or conservation, I am often frustrated by books in which very young conservators fresh out of training have been entrusted with the conservation of famous old master paintings or in which conservators are busy solving crimes or are...