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From New Year’s Day under European legislation the UK’s art dealers and auctioneers must pay the heirs or estates of artists deceased within 70 years up to 4% of the sale price of each work they sell for more than €1,000 (£840). Cataloguing, preserving and validating collections are all currently done by heirs and estates […]

A 17th century handwritten copy of Tulsidas’s Ramcharit Manas was stolen from Goswami Tulsidas Temple here on Thursday. The temple is situated on the premises of Sankat Mochan temple’s trustee Veerbahdra Mishra’s house near Tulsighat. Sankat Mochan temple was built by Goswami Tulsidas. The Times of India on Mobile.

Iranian born Shirin Neshat is one of the most important visual artists of the 21st century.  She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. In December 2010 Shirin Neshat was named Artist of the Decade by the  Huffington Post critic G. Roger Denson, for “the degree to which world events have more than met

In recent years, a lot of emphasis has been placed on ensuring young people are not only welcomed but actually encouraged into museums and cultural institutions. Almost every venue now has, or is developing, a family scheme with children their main target. But what about teenagers – a group that could have benefited the most

        Napoleon Bonaparte was an extraordinary and contradictory man: a warlord who saw himself as a champion of civilisation. One of his most ambitious attempts to prove himself a cultural as well as military titan was to commission a team of scholars to produce the legendary Description de l’Egypte. This was the first thorough

For more than a thousand years all manuscripts were written and illustrated by hand. By the Middle Ages, books were being made by folding sheets of parchment, arranging them into gatherings, and assembling and binding them together. This animation from the Getty Museum illustrates how medieval books were constructed–a feat of engineering that remains essentially

The ancient Egyptians developed a sophisticated method to preserve a dead body for the afterlife: mummification. First, the internal organs were removed and all moisture from the body was eliminated. Next, the body was wrapped with long strips of linen, and then covered with a large linen cloth. Follow the steps of the mummification process

When handling rare and often valuable historic objects and books, are gloves always necessary? Object Curator Matt Anderson and Acquisitions Librarian Patrick Coleman discuss when gloves are helpful versus when they do more harm than good; several specific examples are shown. Artifact and Rare Book Handling: To Glove or Not to Glove? – YouTube.