preservation

Meet FRED!

What’s used in law enforcement and at the Getty Research Institute? FRED!

Katie Duvall | October 10, 2014

A new initiative focuses on advancing the conservation of modern architecture.

Antoine Wilmering | September 18, 2014

Two Google-sponsored interns combine their interests in cultural heritage and tech development to work on this open-source software system

Christine Lee | September 10, 2014

One ring and the two women who treasured it.

Ashley Hilton | July 11, 2014

“I wanted her attention, but I was scared of it…She was tough, but her words were beautiful.”

Inside the archive of one of the greatest 20th-century writers on architecture.

Photographs of Italian monuments and European tapestries join the Open Content Program.

Tracey Schuster | April 22, 2014

Books our favorite “Game of Thrones” characters should consult before heading into season 4.

Bryan C. Keene | April 4, 2014

A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Juliane Wattig | January 24, 2014

“Public art can contribute to defining a city’s identity and to unifying its vision,” and buildings contribute to this identity too!

Maureen McGlynn | December 16, 2013

In a joint Yale-Getty program, conservators learn to harness physics to analyze art.

Lynn Lee | December 9, 2013

Conservators make an intriguing finding about the wood in the Eames House.

Arlen Heginbotham | October 2, 2013