The following is a transcript of the video. Sara Drew: My name is Sara Drew, and I work at Center Art Studio in New York City. I'm restoring a portrait of Edmund Holland that was painted in 1895. This ...

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last ...