Lucca Appraisal & Collection Management

12/28/2019

Christmas came early this year when the works showed up in Joseph Cornell’s archive.

12/26/2019

The plain white walls in the hallway of the venerable San Francisco Art Institute tightly clutched their secret for more than eight decades — buried beneath a dozen layers of paint. But a new effort to turn back the decades and peel away the paint has bared one of those secrets — a fully intact ...

12/26/2019

The nature of marketing in the nearly-over 2010s, with all its unexpected brand crossovers and collaborations, gave rise to many strange commercial bedfellows.

12/20/2019

Phase two of the ongoing restoration of “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” – otherwise known as the Ghent Altarpiece – is complete.

11/27/2019

One of the most important cities in the Eastern Roman Empire was Zeugma: A once flourishing city home to 80,000 inhabitants situated in the present-day province of Gazientep in southern Turkey. Now, researchers are digging up exciting ancient mosaics. Excavations began in 2007 and just seven years e...

11/19/2019

The painstaking work of art restorers, who remove decades of dulling dirt and dust or repair damaged works, is meant to help art stand the test of time by keeping time at bay

11/19/2019

‘Portrait of Andre Breton’ by Man Ray, c. 1930   Europe after the Rain, the Arts Council of Great Britain’s 1978 documentary on Dada and Surrealism, looks at the careers of André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Salvador Dalí, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Yves Tanguy, J...

11/17/2019

Legends tell us how the famous Astronomical Clock in Prague was created. It is one of the most compelling landmarks in the capital city of the Czech

11/02/2019

This is incredible

The burial site tells the story of an 'extremely wealthy family'

11/01/2019

Archaeologists in Egypt have made a new tomb discovery -- the final resting place of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years, decorated with

11/01/2019

“To portray people and make others believe is the hardest thing.”

10/21/2019

The imaginative 'Seen Unseen' exhibit at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve highlights accomplishments of African-American artists in Cleveland and across the U.S. who are either famous or overlooked.