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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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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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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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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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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.

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

The Art Newspaper

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Fine Art Prints vs. Reproductions

Art Peritus

Fine Art Prints vs. Reproductions By Noelle DeSantis and Sarah Kirk Hanley Have you ever wondered why two seemingly identical prints by the same artist can have vastly different price tags? Among numerous factors, it is often the manner in which the print was produced that plays the most pivotal role in determining its value.