Recap: ArtWatch International's Fourth Annual James Beck Memorial Lecture, with talks from Donald Martin Reynolds and David Freedberg

Image: Professor James Beck, founder of ArtWatch International. Read the ArtWatch article here.

The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II – CODA: The Remarkable Responses to Our Evidence of Injuries; and Thomas Hoving’s Rant of Denial

Image (left): The Cumaean Sibyl seen before restoration. (Right): The Cumaean Sibyl seen after restoration. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

The Sistine Chapel Restorations, Part II: How to Take a Michelangelo Sibyl Apart, from Top to Toes

Image (left): a fragment of the Libyan Sibyl’s drapery before restoration. Image (right): the same fragment after restoration. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

The Sistine Chapel Restorations: Part I ~ Setting the Scene, Packing Them In

Image: Visitors thronging the Sistine Chapel as shown in the 21 December 2012 Guardian (Photograph: Oote Boe Ph/Alamy). Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

ArtWatch Stock-taking and the Sistine Chapel Conservation Debacle

Image: The front (left) and back (right) covers of ArtWatch UK Journal 27. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

Where One Hand Ends and the Other Begins: Museum Ethics and the Restoration of Ancient Ceramics

Image: Restoration of an Attic red-figure vessel at the Getty Conservation Institute Read the ArtWatch article here.

“Pick Up A Pencil” - The new ArtWatch UK members’ Journal examines failures to acknowledge visual evidence

Image: The head of Michelangelo’s Erythraean Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling before restoration. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

Coming to Life: Frankenweenie – A Black and White Michelangelo for Our Times

Image: Characters from Tim Burton’s teenage horror story, Frankenweenie. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

The Battle of Borja: Cecilia Giménez, Restoration Monkeys, Paediatricians, Titian and Great Women Conservators

Image: A detail of the National Gallery’s Titian “Bacchus and Ariadne”, shown (left) before restoration, and (right) after restoration. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

The “World’s worst restoration” and the Death of Authenticity

Image: Ellas Garcia Martinez’s painting of Christ before (left) Cecilia Gimenez’s attempted restoration (right) of the deteriorating work. Read the ArtWatch UK article here.

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