MONROE — When he retired, professional conservator Mark Gervasi didn’t want to stop preserving history. He’d worked for 30 years at The Henry Ford, and he did conservation projects for the Edsel and ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection hosted Sarah Scaturro, the Eric and Jane Nord Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, as their Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecturer Feb. 22. This year’s ...

Museums are always looking to expand their collections, but occasionally a new masterpiece is hiding in plain sight. After examining Cezanne’s Still Life with Bread and Eggs (1865) more closely, ...

When the Carnegie Museum of Natural History shuttered their Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt last year, many of the museum’s priceless Egyptian relics left the public eye. More than 80 pieces from its ...

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Painters paint. Drawers draw. Artists create. But who preserves art so it reaches future generations? At the Ackland Art Museum, Grace White is the woman behind it all – well, at least all things ...

CLEVELAND — We have a follow up to a Growing STEM story we featured about a month or so ago on the role of conservators at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It's a role that produces great careers in STEM, ...

DENVER — Deep in the Denver Art Museum's basement, two eyeballs look around through tiny tv screens attached to scavenged electronics. They're the centerpiece of the late Alan Rath's "Looker II," and ...

Wrapping paper by famous American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is being flattened in the photo room at McGlinchey Sexton Conservation. On a table a few feet away rests a 50-pound paper sculpture ...