Stop Press

A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.

31 May

• In Pictures: Conserving Van Gogh
  BBC, United Kingdom
  The Cincinnati Art Museum begins a five-month conservation project on one of Vincent van Gogh’s last great masterpieces, Undergrowth with Two Figures.

18 May

• Science, art combine to reproduce paintings from the past
  Reuters
  Video: Using laser and nanotechnology, scientists in Chicago have been able to go back in time and uncover how masterpieces from artists like Homer and Van Gogh might have looked like when they were first painted.

• Notorious Auschwitz sign repaired after 2009 theft
  Associated Press
  The notorious sign spanning Auschwitz's main gate, which was stolen and cut into pieces in a 2009 heist, has been welded back together and restored almost to its previous condition, officials said Wednesday.

17 May

• Race to save 17th Century Swash Channel wreck
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to preserve parts of a shipwreck they believe is the most significant found in British waters since the Tudor ship, the Mary Rose.

14 May

• Photos: World's Richest Man Opens World's Flashiest Museum
  Atlantic Wire, United States
  In Mexico City, telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, widely cited as the world's richest man, recently opened a new museum to showcase his extensive collection of over 60,000 works of art from all over the world.

12 May

• Bank of America Art Conservation Project To Restore Global Cultural Treasures in 2011
  Art Daily
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch has today announced that its 2011 Art Conservation Project is open for applications from arts and cultural institutions.

10 May

• Le retour au pays du guerrier maori de Rouen
  Le Monde, France
  Effervescence le lundi 9 mai dans la salle des mariages de la mairie de Rouen : la maire, Valérie Fourneyron (PS), restitue à la Nouvelle-Zélande un toi moko, tête tatouée d'un guerrier maori, détenu par le Museum d'histoire naturelle de la ville depuis 1875.

• Beatles' Strawberry Fields gates removed
  BBC, United Kingdom
  The ornate iron gates of a children's home which inspired John Lennon's psychedelic Beatles anthem Strawberry Fields Forever have been removed.

9 May

• France hands back Maori mummified head to New Zealand
  BBC, United Kingdom
  The mummified, tattooed head of an ancient Maori warrior is being returned to New Zealand after spending decades in a French museum.

4 May

• Historic Conservation Project by World Monuments Fund Begins in Eastern Turkey
  Art Daily
  Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund (WMF), today announced that WMF and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism have embarked on a historic partnership to conserve the Ani Cathedral and the Church of the Holy Savior, in Ani, a medieval city in northeastern Turkey.

2 May

• Princess sheds new light on early Celts
  BBC, United Kingdom
  German experts are carefully taking apart a complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celt's way of life, 2,600 years ago, in their Danube heartland.

updated on: 1 June, 2011