Conservation
News and stories about art and heritage conservation at Getty
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Breast Dressed
Restoring one of Getty’s most unique treasures
Open Access Book Provides Essential Guidance on Digital Inventories and Surveys
This new resource offers current, practical support for the use of inventories and surveys as heritage conservation tools
Preserving the Past and Honoring Communities
Together, UCLA and Getty are teaching aspiring conservators how to care for Indigenous and archaeological objects
Why I Changed My Mind About Concrete
Becoming Artsy, Episode 307
New Illustrated Critical Anthology Collects Writings of Conservationist Giovannoni
The seminal texts by the Italian architect, historian, and conservationist are available in English for the first time
Listening to Objects
How acoustic emission monitoring is saving cultural heritage
Photography Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three
How we decided whether it was safe to display 150-year-old photos
Why So Blue?
Inside the French mill where blue paper is still made the old-fashioned way
Keep Calm and Care On
Conservators are learning to care for paintings damaged by disasters or conflicts through Getty training grants
Modern Architecture Needs Protecting Too
The next generation of conservators gathered in LA—an essentially 20th-century city—for a course in preserving newer gems of cultural heritage