Art
MFA Boston Publicly Conserves 18th-Century Buddhist Painting Masterpiece
Starting tomorrow, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will have a rare opportunity to experience what usually occurs behind the scenes in conservation labs.
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Original Winnie-the-Pooh Dolls, All Stuffed with Fluff, Go Back on View
Before Winnie-the-Pooh was a Disney superstar, before author A. A. Milne even considered the forest adventures of a beloved bumbling bear, he was a gift to a young boy on his first birthday.
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Designing Less Dangerous Architecture for New York's Birds
The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the west side of Manhattan was once among New York City's top three bird-killing buildings.
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Yale's Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."
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Rescuing the Logbooks of 19th-Century Whaling Ships
Each whaling ship that departed the northeastern United States carried a logbook aboard, in which whale hunts, shipwrecks, weather conditions, and daily sailing life were recorded.
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Scientists Identify the Fungi Clouding Leonardo's Self-Portrait
A red chalk sketch from around 1512 CE, long believed to be a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, has a glowering, bearded man's face emerging from a swarm of brown spots. Kept safely in the vaults of the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, the portrait's power, despite the imperfections, has even gained rum
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In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past
In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.
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From a 12,000-Year-Old Turkish City to a Finnish Airport, Europe's Most At-Risk Heritage Sites
Western media stories about cultural heritage destruction have recently focused on places like Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
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British Museum Will Train Iraqis in Rescue Archaeology
There's nothing like watching ISIS blow up the ancient city of Nineveh to make archaeologists, conservationists, and historians feel helpless.
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A Petition to Stop "Irresponsible" Restoration of Chartres Cathedral
A new petition against the cathedral's restoration claims work done over the past six years has irreversibly damaged the 800-year-old building and erased centuries of the history that makes it so special.
Art
A New Afterlife for Cemeteries: Training Future Preservationists
The sprawling 19th-century cemeteries whose monuments and mausoleums dot the United States are often short on hands to preserve their heritage.
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Preserving the Templates for Historic Stained Glass Found Around the World
To organize the many pieces that form just one stained glass window, artists often create full-scale drawings of the final work that serve as maps for the intricate process.