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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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Determining Replacement Value for Fine Art Prints

International Society of Appraisers

7/7/2025 12:00:00 AM When appraising fine art prints, especially those from the same edition, it is common to encounter a wide range of asking prices across different retail galleries. The key lies in two important considerations: the condition of the client’s print and the venue the client shops.

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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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Art Gallery of Ontario acquires more than 200 Peter Hujar photographs

The Art Newspaper

Gelatin silver print, Overall: 50.8 × 40.6 Gelatin silver print, 50.8 Gelatin silver print, 50.8 Gelatin silver print, Art Gallery of Ontario. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from Martha LA McCain and George Yabu & Glenn Pushelberg, 2024. The works acquired by the AGO all come from the Hujar Archive.

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

The Art Newspaper

Their memory will be evoked through prints, posters, films, catalogues and other ephemera that will also help to contextualise Iraq’s post-colonial experience.

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Insights on Auction Sales: A Transformer and a Stamp Collection

WorthPoint

Craftsmanship and Condition This vintage Apple Tree pattern quilt from around the 1940s sold for $1,298 at Dana Auctions. Hand-pieced and quilted in a Baptist fan motif, this quilt was notable for its craftsmanship and condition, despite some yellow spotting.

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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.