The Value of Record Keeping: Frederick Hammersley’s Painting Books
The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.
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Getty Conservation Institute Releases New Resource for Conserving Historic Photographs
This new digital publication offers science-based tools to identify how photographs were made.
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Getty Foundation Grant Helps Restore Daguerre’s Final Illusion
Nestled in a church in a small town outside Paris, a massive diorama by Daguerre has been newly restored.
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Conserving Architectural Models: Behind the Scenes in the Research Institute Conservation Lab
How are architectural models conserved?
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Conserving Pacino di Bonaguida: My Getty Foundation Fellowship
Panel paintings conservator Aleksandra Hola reveals the process of conserving a 14th-century painting.
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¡América Tropical! Celebrating a Siqueiros Masterpiece
A day of fun on Olvera Street honors the unveiling of Siqueiros’s mural America Tropical.
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América Tropical Is Reborn on 80th Birthday
Reflections on conserving Siqueiros’s mural America Tropical for the public.
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Waxing and Waning of Summer in Decorative Arts & Sculpture Conservation
The quest for the perfect wax to buff and protect outdoor sculptures at the Getty.
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Mars Rover Technology Helps Unlock Art Mysteries
Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute adapt tools designed by NASA.
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Rubens’s Masterful “Triumph of the Eucharist” Series to Be Conserved
The conversation of Rubens’ work is part of the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative.
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The Case of the Broken Wax Banana
Conservator Julie Wolfe explains adhesive methods to repair to a Robert Graham piece.
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Getty to Conserve Jackson Pollock’s Watershed Work “Mural”
It’s official—abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work Mural (1943) will be undergoing technical study and conservation at the Getty Center as part of... Read More