Masterpieces like The Mona Lisa or The Coronation of Napoleon are admired by tens of thousands of visitors to the Louvre each day. Yet, deep within the Paris museum’s vaults lie thousands more works ...

Yet again, Spain is getting slammed for a ridiculous restoration of historic church artworks, this time for a new paint job at an 18th-century church in the city of Soria. The Ermita de Nuestra Señora ...

IMMEDIATELY after the October Revolution in 1917, the Soviet government took effective measures to protect cultural relics. Government commissars charged with the task of ensuring the safety of art ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...

Seville is up in arms these days because the newly restored face of the Virgin of La Macarena, a 17th century carving by an unknown artist and of incalculable value to thousands of the faithful which, ...

FARGO - Art and science are often thought of as opposites, but a few professors at North Dakota State University might argue they're more like two sides of the same coin. Professors in the department ...

ANTWERP, Belgium — When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB In the basement of the Portland Art Museum stands a brand new state of the art conservation suite, built as part of the ongoing campaign for a $111 million museum renovation ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - A rare piece of art by a famous Iowan artist will soon leave the Sioux City Art Center for restoration. Almost everyone is familiar with Grant Wood’s painting of a ...

Mary Weaver, owner of Browning Arts Center downtown, believes she is likely the last person doing art restoration between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. She says it's time to pass the baton. Mary Weaver is ...