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

The Art Newspaper

The fair, held in a 14th-century building that has previously housed both a printing factory and the Swiss artist Dieter Roth’s studio, brings together a total of 18 galleries, half of which have travelled from Africa.Notable among the participants are organisations whose remit is not exclusively or usually commercial. We did our job.”

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A real head Turner: pub offers free drink to walkers exploring artist's London

The Art Newspaper

Turner Royal Museums Greenwich Share Subscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox. Birthday or not, we'll drink to that. Diary J.M.W.

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Early Baseball prints

Antique Prints

By the late 1850s, some baseball wood cut prints appeared in the illustrated newspapers of the day. About the same time, a number of baseball images began to appear as music sheets, including this beautiful colored cover for “Live Oak Polka,” which was printed by Endicott & Co. In their "The National Game. Three 'Outs' and One 'Run.'

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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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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.”

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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

Another issue to keep in mind is what medium you'd like to purchase: a wide range is available including original works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, graphite as well as printed works including etchings, lithographs, silkscreens, and digital prints. Salvador Dali prints should not be touched with a ten-foot-pole.