The September 29, 2025 issue of The New Yorker contains an article by Anthony Lane entitled “ Cinema Paradiso ” about the Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival held each year in Bologna and the restoration of 20th century films at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in that city. Lane describes...
In the June 9, 2025 issue of The Wall Street Journal , Karen Wilkin wrote “ Tintoretto’s Masterpiece Resurrected ” about the unveiling of the newly cleaned Tintoretto “Crucifixion” in Venice’s Scuola Grande de San Rocco. The conservation work was preceded by a technical study which uncovered...
According to “ Once Hidden, a Guston Mural is Revived ”, an article by Victoria Burnett in the February 4, 2025 issue of The New York Times , ”The Struggle Against Terrorism”, a mural painted by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at the Regional Museum of Michoacan in 1934-1935 which had been...
“ Harsh Weather and Economics Imperil Land Ar t”, an article by Julia Halperin in the January 23, 2024 issue of The New York Times , notes that the Des Moines Art Center will be dismantling Mary Miss’ “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”, a work of land art in its collection because it no longer...
The 800 tightly rolled papyrus scrolls found in a room in a villa in Pompeii which likely comprise the personal library of a philosopher employed by the villa’s owner were carbonized in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and cannot be opened to read without crumbling apart. “ Survivors of...
It is always interesting to see what the outside world thinks conservation is about. In an October 7-8, 2023 Wall Street Journal review of the book The Boy from Kiev , a biography of the choreographer Alexi Ratmansky, the reviewer Moira Hodgson quotes author Marina Harss saying that...
According to” Why a Painter’s Yellows Aren’t So Yellow Anymore ”, a short piece by Katherine Kornei in the "Observatory" column of the Science Times section of the October 3, 2023 issue of The New York Times , paint fades. Even modern paint fades-- and particularly cadmium yellow paint....
The front page of the August 14, 2023 issue of the New York Times contains an article by Alexandra Eaton titled, “ The Story of an Enslaved Youth Emerges From behind the Paint ”. The painting Eaton discusses, “Belizaire and the Frey Children” , now in the collection of the Metropolitan...
“ Lacking Heads, Sculptures Keep Experts on Their Toes ”, a front page article by Graham Bowley in the June 14, 2023 issue of The New York Times focuses on the bronze head of Septimus Severus in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Denmark) and the bronze body formerly in the Metropolitan...
“ An Ancient Cup’s Bit-By-Bit Rebirth and The Story That’s Behind It ”, an article by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg in the Sunday, April 23, 2023, issue of The New York Times discusses a very significant and complete terra cotta kylix in the Metropolitan Museum that entered the museum’s...