Art restoration takes steady hands and a discerning eye. For centuries, conservators have restored paintings by identifying areas needing repair, then mixing an exact shade to fill in one area at a ...

Jessica Wilson, “Perfectly Clear,” 2022, UV pigment on Dibond. Wilson, in a 3-D rendering of a squeegee at Nahmad Contemporary, shows a way forward for painting beyond the brush.

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 ...