While following the issue of digital documentation, reproduction and in particular its use to record at risk cultural heritage I was very interested to attend a conference and workshop event at the V&A in early December, which discussed [...]
Having been linking articles and writing on the subject of virtual reconstruction Bamyian Buddhas, replicas Tutankhamun: Tomb Reconstruction, and 3D digital recording Digital Archaeology on this blog, this recent article from The Art Newspaper by Robert Bevan, author of [...]
The search for a hidden tomb behind a wall of Tutankhamun's burial chamber: Tutankhamun's Tomb: Evidence Grows for Hidden Chamber, last week resulted in the announcement by Egypt's antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty that there is an 'approximately 90 [...]
Further to the earlier posts on visual interpretations: Bamyian Buddhas, and Virtual Restoration, as well as the recent news coverage about the tomb, a piece about the reconstruction of the Tomb of Tutankhamun seems apposite. This project [...]
The Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greece exhibition at the British Museum contained many beautiful pieces. Two of the most striking also stood out as having interesting stories, which related to the application of research, conservation and [...]
Having been writing about light projections and the 'restoration' of objects through laser projection: Virtual Restoration, I see the technology has just been used in a one off projection of the destroyed Buddhas of Bamyian. While clearly a [...]
Several years ago I was involved in the conservation work at the Neues Museum in Berlin, which was undertaken as part of the major work on the building before it reopened in 2009. The museum had been [...]
I came across these articles when I was interested in finding out more about the 'restoration' of Rothko wall paintings, now on display at Harvard Museum Gallery, which was carried out entirely by using light. This restoration was [...]
This was a project in the summer 2014 with Tobit Curteis Associates on the conservation on the upper part of a painting from the 1940s. It was part of a larger project to preserve and reinstate the [...]
