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Insights on Auction Sales: A Transformer and a Stamp Collection

WorthPoint

cm, the piece appeared authentically aged and beautifully worn. It’s a strong reminder that the right combination of age, design, and condition can drive value in this niche market. Stamp collecting has largely faded from popularity, overshadowed by the digital age, and most collections sell for little.

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Insights on Auction Sales: R2-D2, GAR Soldiers Photograph

WorthPoint

The sale also included other GAR-related photographs, including an image of an African American soldier printed from the original negative. While it likely wasn’t a Type One photo (a print created from the original negative during the same time period), it still stood out as a desirable collector’s piece. Sold for only $185.15

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

The Art Newspaper

The Cindy Sherman Legacy Project (CSLP), launching today (16 June), introduces a formal process for condition assessments and the controlled replacement of damaged prints, and will also host an online catalogue raisonné documenting her career. Sherman has worked with the same specialist print lab for more than 20 years.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

Invaluable

Works that invoke the power of the artist’s touch, whether that be from the warp and weft of a loomed work or the surface incisions made on a print block or ceramic vessel. For some, this medium allows them to reconnect with age-old traditions of making in a conversation across time.

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

The Art Newspaper

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. Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen that completely disintegrate in front of our eyes—much to the benefit of the volume of sales. Profitability is a problem for auction houses.

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Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

The Art Newspaper

courtesy the Frick The Week in Art The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast Hosted by Ben Luke. Marcus 24 July 2025 Share Julia Day, the Frick Collection’s new chief conservator Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.,

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

The Art Newspaper

His gallery is showing works by three artists—black-and-white prints of detritus by Megan Plunkett, glittering metallic sculptures by Kayode Ojo and aluminium flood barriers by Alexandre Khondji—with the works priced between €5,000 to €50,000. Here we have more flexibility and we can present a fuller breadth of our programme.”