Art conservation departments are more or less ubiquitous in museums today, but it wasn’t always this way. The first dedicated conservation facility in the United States wasn’t founded until 1927, when ...

Aleem Kassam, co-founder of Kalu Interiors, agrees that Benjamin Moore's paints are trusty. When shopping for wall paint, he ...

Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

The fading of a once-vibrant yellow rose reveals how the ravages of time and chemical alteration can dampen the visual power of a painting. Paintings conservator Nouchka De Keyser of the Rijksmuseum ...

Few paintings in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection inspire reverence quite like Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A (1948). It’s a maze of paint, a ghostly white fog hanging amid sinews of black and blue ...

Dutch scientists have developed a new method for studying organic pigments in the paintings of old masters. Firing a laser at microscopic paint samples releases very small quantities of paint, which ...

A class taught by chemist Li-Qiong Wang teaches the molecular building blocks of artistic expression and enables students to make some art of their own along the way.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Oil paint is simple. At its most basic, it's just a mixture of oil and pigment. But depending on the color and quality, a liter of this paint could ...

Aug. 4—Fox Haven will provide the opportunity for kids to explore nature, creativity and self-expression, all while maintaining a safe social distance, during the Pigment Making and Painting class, 2 ...

The pigment Prussian Blue has been used by artists since the 18th century to create affordable blue paints. These days, the pigment’s main purpose is to treat heavy metal poisoning and radioactive ...