Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late neo-expressionist whose tragic life story inspired a 1996 film, used invisible ink to draw secret figures in at least one of his early paintings, Artnet News reported ...
"I've never seen anything like it," the conservator said. "He basically did a totally secret part of this painting." A detail of Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled (1981) seen under normal light (at left ...
The long-wave UV LED flashlights aren't horrible; short-wave is much more damaging. Still, you're correct, you'd want to limit the painting's exposure. That said, a lot of artists tend to use ...