Conservation
News and stories about art and heritage conservation at Getty
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- Recipe for Success - Scientists and conservators are using a Getty grant to reinvent a crucial art conservation material 
- What Goes on Inside Getty’s Vaults? - How a graduate intern helps save art, archives, and energy 
- Honoring India’s Modern Heritage - How modernist architecture in India is being preserved for posterity 
- When Artworks, Cherished Objects, and Children’s Toys Are Fire Survivors Too - Getty’s Fire Recovery Conservation Clinic provided triage for belongings—and healing for victims 
- Conserving Art’s Sensory Experiences - Unraveling how we perceive multisensory artworks (like those at the Wired for Wonder exhibition) helps create more nuanced conservation strategies 
- Getty Expands Funding for Historic Modern Buildings Designed by Black Architects - Over 20 buildings across the U.S. have received grants since the Conserving Black Modernism initiative kicked off in 2022 
- Forever Fashion - Getty conservators and scientists work to preserve plastic fashions from the 20th century to today 
- When an Artist Becomes a Scientist - At school, Tom Learner had to choose between art and science; now, as head of science at the Getty Conservation Institute, there’s no need 
- New Volume Advances Granite Conservation for Historic Structures Worldwide - Uniting research and fieldwork, Getty book provides practical tools for conserving granite in built heritage 
- An Enlightened Approach to Preserving the Past - See how the microfading tester helps conserve color in heritage objects