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To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs

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Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth The US photographer Cindy Sherman has launched a new initiative to preserve the physical and conceptual integrity of her work. It is the first initiative of its kind in photography and could set a new benchmark for legacy care among artists working in lens-based media.

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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

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There were relatively few clients, but they were very committed clients of a certain age who were collecting classic 19th- and 20th- century art,” Dolman says. Despite some of the speculation leaving the contemporary art market, Dolman thinks there will still be “an insatiable appetite” for living artists. “I

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Revealed: how Van Gogh's nephew exchanged two of the artist's drawings for butter and bacon

The Art Newspaper

Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist, to scholarly pieces based on meticulous investigations and discoveries. Intriguingly, the 1945 swap was arranged with the help of Charley Toorop, an artist who is currently the subject of an exhibition at Otterlo’s Kröller-Müller Museum.

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In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

The Art Newspaper

Art Basel is this year introducing a section called Premiere, which invites galleries to exhibit presentations of work made in the past five years by up to three artists, staged around a loose curatorial concept. The ten exhibitors in the inaugural section are typically smaller to mid-sized galleries presenting mid-career artists.

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Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

The Art Newspaper

Cabelle Ahn Day is eager to have a go at Diana the Huntress , a life-sized terracotta sculpture by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Antoine Houdon—a signature piece in the collection installed in the mansion’s Portico Gallery. Frick Collection Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation J.

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Sotheby’s offers peek at Breuer building’s makeover

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Frank Stella: © Frank Stella / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Isamu Noguchi: © 2025 Estate of Isamu Noguchi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In June 2023 Sotheby’s announced it would purchase Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum of American Art building, a feat of Brutalist architecture, for $100m.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

© Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025, Photo: Ken Adlard, Courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth Since it opened in 2014, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has brought contemporary art, burrata and around 110,000 visitors a year to the small town of Bruton in southwest England. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025.

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