Ars Technica NewsNov 24
Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time https://arstechni.ca/U2YL #artconservation #chemistry #pigments #Culture #Science
Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time

Light is the greatest threat to 19th-century masterpieces like James Ensor’s The Intrigue, study finds.

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Jon IppolitoOct 8

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

Miro CollasSep 27

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

We took the back off a Michelangelo and it took 7 months | Saving Michelangelo’s Epifania Cartoon

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Georgia Museum of ArtJul 31, 2025

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

Show threadHarald KlinkeJun 17, 2025
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
Show threadHarald KlinkeJun 17, 2025
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
Physical restoration of a painting with a digitally constructed mask - Nature

A digital restoration technique for damaged paintings was developed, in which a colour-accurate bilayer mask of printed pigments on polymeric films was used, reducing treatment time and cost while adhering to ethical conservation principles.

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Unofficial PetaPixel BotJun 16, 2025
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
Cindy Sherman is Destroying and Reprinting Her Damaged Photographs

Cindy Sherman will replace her old prints.

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Show threadHarald KlinkeJun 15, 2025

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

Closer to Van Eyck

The Ghent Altarpiece and Further Works by Jan Van Eyck

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseJun 15, 2025

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/

MIT News: Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask” | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Global MuseumNov 18, 2024

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

Presenting and Preserving Perishable Art | Artnet News

Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian,' a banana taped to a wall, is just the latest in a long tradition of perishable art.

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