Masterpieces like The Mona Lisa or The Coronation of Napoleon are admired by tens of thousands of visitors to the Louvre each day. Yet, deep within the Paris museum’s vaults lie thousands more works ...

But the silver lining in all of this is one of the most famous botched art restorations actually saved a small village. Cecilia Giménez’s 2012 viral interpretation of a Jesus fresco actually inspired ...

Hot on the footsteps of what are now known as “Potato Jesus” and “Mary of the Melted Face,” yet another piece of Spanish art has been subjected to a disastrous restoration attempt. The victim in this ...

Yet again, Spain is getting slammed for a ridiculous restoration of historic church artworks, this time for a new paint job at an 18th-century church in the city of Soria. The Ermita de Nuestra Señora ...

Seville is up in arms these days because the newly restored face of the Virgin of La Macarena, a 17th century carving by an unknown artist and of incalculable value to thousands of the faithful which, ...

In spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world’s great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at “restoring” art ...

Watching paint dry is suddenly en vogue. Paris’s Musée d’Orsay’s surprise hit this season is a look at the ongoing restoration of Gustave Courbet’s “Un Enterrement à Ornans” (A Burial at Ornans). It ...

FARGO - Art and science are often thought of as opposites, but a few professors at North Dakota State University might argue they're more like two sides of the same coin. Professors in the department ...

A giant modern art sculpture that appeared overnight on the Yale campus in 1969 and became part of political protests and demonstrations at the university for decades will be fully restored thanks to ...