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The Company Policy about AI and Appraising

Artifactual History Appraisal

Most of all, the data sets we work with as appraisers are inherently complex and often flawed, and they require our critical analysis and many years of specialized connoisseurship training about art and the emotional and psychological drivers in the art market to interpret correctly. Human discernment is needed to appraise art and antiques.

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

The Art Newspaper

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. 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.

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Comment | Artnet sale underscores its impact on the industry—and its limitations in today's landscape

The Art Newspaper

The combination of new money being made in financial services, its taste for the artists of the day and the availability of information that made art look like it could behave like stocks and shares created the ‘art as an investment’ craze that has pretty much dominated this century. The information is free.

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Mechanical engineer develops AI-generated digital masks to restore damaged paintings

The Art Newspaper

The mask system they developed is a fully removable, precision-printed polymer film with both clear and painted areas that overlay the art, much like a custom graphic wrap used in advertising. I enjoy the concept of rescuing paintings that have been neglected and abused over the years,” Kachkine says.

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Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment

The Art Newspaper

This was my biggest print back then—it was considered big at the time,” he says, referring to photographs around two feet wide of mines in Ontario and British Columbia from 1984 and 1985. The image was printed on adhesive vinyl in Burtynsky’s Toronto studio, where he has developed a range of advanced scanning, printing and imaging processes.

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Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

The Art Newspaper

Africa Basel was founded by the artist Benjamin Füglister and the founding director of Photo Basel, Sven Eisenhut-Hug. Odile Tevie is the director of Nubuke Foundation, a Ghanaian non-profit with a mission to support artists and preserve the nation’s contemporary culture. So we’re hoping we can do some sales and recoup that.”

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.