Artworks deteriorate over time, so restoration is necessary to preserve them for future generations. However, there have been many cases of failed restorations of artworks, leading to complaints that ...

A picture is usually worth a thousand words, but this painting restoration is only worth five: What the hell is this? An art collector in Valencia, Spain reportedly hired a furniture restorer to come ...

IMMEDIATELY after the October Revolution in 1917, the Soviet government took effective measures to protect cultural relics. Government commissars charged with the task of ensuring the safety of art ...

Cecilia Giménez’s repainting of an image of Jesus in 2012 was widely mocked online. But tourists flocked to see her work, ...

Spanish conservationists were enraged after the restoration of a church’s 16th-century wooden sculpture of a knight on horseback left the figure unrecognizable. The figure at the San Miguel de Estella ...

SOUTH PASADENA – Since 1933, sculptor Donal Hord’s bas-relief sculpture, “Civilian Conservation Corps Workers,” has been shuffled around the South Pasadena Middle School campus, most recently attached ...

A private art collector's copy of "The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial" by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was disfigured after a furniture restorer's efforts to clean the painting ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- One by one, Minnesota's governors are leaving the Minnesota State Capitol, carefully carried away, and crated. As the Capitol begins a massive restoration, the building's artwork ...

WILKES-BARRE – Before the netting is removed from the dome inside the Luzerne County Courthouse and the first phase of restoring the building’s interior is complete, Rachel Gilberti and Piotr ...

Jane Orleman had seen husband Richard “Dick” Elliott’s massive reflector artwork, “Circle of Light,” up close just once before a celebratory event on Monday. Elliott, his brother-in-law and a friend ...