Jun 29, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
Everyone remembers the extraordinary damage done to the painting of Christ titled “Ecce Homo” by a well-meaning but over-confident parishioner in Borja, Spain in 2016. In her attempt to ‘restore’ the 1930 painting, Cecila Giménez made it into something...
Jul 6, 2018 | News & Trending
The recent restoration of the 16th-century St. George wooden statue displayed at St. Michael’s Church in Estella, Spain is being compared to 2012’s infamous botched restoration of “Ecce Homo,” a painting of Jesus. “‘Navarre’s Ecce Homo’: Another church in Spain falls...
Feb 15, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
Strictly speaking, the ghostly white sculptures on the defunct New York Central rail platform in Syracuse, NY are graffiti. Duke Epolito had no permission to place the eerie human shapes there in 1982 when he did. But the lumpy fiberglass figures have been there for...
Jan 8, 2016 | Art, News & Trending
If you think creating masterful pieces of art is difficult, try cleaning them. One of Jackson Pollock’s premier paintings, 1950’s Number 32, is the subject of a new, innovative cleaning technique. As it advances in age—it turns 66 this year!—the painting has acquired...
Dec 9, 2015 | Art, News & Trending
A group of young architects and designers has been awarded this year’s Turner Prize, one of the most prestigious art awards in the United Kingdom. The London-based group, called Assemble, was chosen as the recipient because of their work to restore condemned Victorian...
