Conservation Tools: The GC/MS Instrument
This scientific tool helps conservators understand artwork from the tiniest of samples.
Read More
science
Boot Camp for Conservators Explores X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
In a joint Yale-Getty program, conservators learn to harness physics to analyze art.
Read More
The Value of Record Keeping: Frederick Hammersley’s Painting Books
The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.
Read More
What’s in a Wood? How Science Helps to Reveal the Eames’ Vision
Conservators make an intriguing finding about the wood in the Eames House.
Read More
Getty Voices: Behind the Scenes at the GCI
Conservation science merges art and analysis to solve thorny conservation problems.
Read More
Getty Voices: Attic Pots and Atomic Particles
How did ancient Greeks make their red-and-black pottery?
Read More
What Do Rocks Have to Do with Renaissance Art?
Why the manuscript illuminations in Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance really rock.
Read More
Mars Rover Technology Helps Unlock Art Mysteries
Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute adapt tools designed by NASA.
Read More
Looking Under Judy Chicago’s Car Hood
Chicago was one of several California artists in the 1960’s who adopted techniques and materials from L.A.’s car culture.
Read More
Modern Architecture Under the Conservation Microscope
Despite the increased recognition that works of modern architecture such as the Sydney Opera House, Le Corbusier’s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in... Read More
Ladybugs on the Lam!
Artist Hirokazu Kosaka’s much anticipated presentation of “Kalpa” on January 20 at the Getty Center was an experimental performance spectacular, featuring hundreds of spools... Read More
Looking at Apulian Vases in a New Light
Since 2008, the antiquities conservation and curatorial departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum have been working with colleagues at the Antikensammlung in Berlin... Read More