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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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Miami’s Vizcaya Museum will save century-old pool-grotto mural with National Park Service grant

The Art Newspaper

The rare work by the Gilded Age artist Robert Winthrop Chanler is endangered by the surrounding water and Miami's humid conditions

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

The Art Newspaper

The real site is now occupied by the Porterhouse pub, which has joined Turner's birthday celebrations with gusto, commissioning a 10 foot square mural map of Turner’s London from Adam Dant, which the artist unveiled as van der Merwe hung a splendid wreath on the wall.

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‘I’ve always dreamt of bringing a studio into the museum’: Miami-born José Parlá makes art in dialogue with the public

The Art Newspaper

The artist talks working in a replica of his studio inside Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the choice to make art in desperate conditions

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‘Putting concrete numbers to what many of us already feel’: new grassroots census tracks challenges facing Miami artists

The Art Newspaper

The Miami Artist Census, launched by a group of local artists, aims to equip South Floridas creative communities with empowering data that will help them improve theirworkingand living conditions

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Expert and restorer in fake Versailles furniture scandal found guilty

The Art Newspaper

The cabinet maker Bruno Desnoues, who was employed as a furniture restorer for Versailles and used his skills to create the forgeries, was sentenced to three years in prison, including a 32-month suspended sentence, and a €100,000 fine. He has also been banned from working as an expert for five years.

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