Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Art & Antiques for Everyone fair back in Birmingham in November
04 October 2021Organisers of the Art & Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) fair have announced it will return this winter to its venue at the NEC in Birmingham from November 25-28.
Bruges museum buys Old Master portrait at the ‘last’ TEFAF Online
04 October 2021Over six days, collectors and institutions gathered virtually for TEFAF Online 2021 to peruse the high-end offerings of more than 250 international galleries.
The web shop window: Copy of Great Plague death list in unusually healthy condition
04 October 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Dealers head to Cheshire for Tatton Park fair
04 October 2021This mahogany inlaid bijouterie oval table by Victorian maker Edwards & Roberts is part of a large selection of antiques making their way to Cheshire this month.
Latest James Bond film prompts art and antiques firms to promote memorabilia
29 September 2021The James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ will be released on September 30 (after pandemic delays) and a number of auction houses and dealers have a selection of related items for sale.
Marlborough London stages Gillian Ayres exhibition
27 September 2021Dynamic and gestural, this vast 5ft 6in x 11ft 3in (1.67 x 3.45m) oil on canvas, below, was painted by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) during the 1980s.
Female sculptors make a mark
27 September 2021Waddington Custot is one of the latest galleries to celebrate the work of pioneering 20th century women.
5 Questions: Ian Grutchfield
27 September 2021Ian Grutchfield is venue director of Hadleigh Old School, a new art space in Suffolk.
John McLusky's 007 comic strip drawings offered at Abbott and Holder
27 September 2021Coinciding with the new (and long-awaited) release of James Bond film 'No Time To Die', Bloomsbury gallery Abbott and Holder is holding an exhibition of original drawings made for the serialisation of Ian Fleming’s novels in the 'Daily Express'.
Brought out from a deep freeze
27 September 2021Following two years of enforced online activity only, art fair makes its long-awaited return
Dealer John Bly starts a new chapter
27 September 2021To mark its 130th year in business, long-running antiques and decorative arts specialist John Bly has launched a new venture.
The web shop window: Henri Hayden landscape painting
27 September 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Climate change collection sounds the alarm
27 September 2021With the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26) on the horizon, rare books specialist Peter Harrington is using Frieze Masters to launch an ambitious new collection of books and original manuscripts charting the history of climate change and environmentalism.
Textiles made with spider silk weave their magic at Oliver Hoare gallery's latest show
27 September 2021Unexpected, unusual and often overseen objects are the stock in trade of art gallery Oliver Hoare.
Leon Kossoff’s London calling
27 September 2021King’s Cross on an ordinary, busy afternoon in March is the subject of this 1998 work by the late Leon Kossoff (1926-2019).
Hodge and his horses
27 September 2021Available to buy for £2800, this 12 x 18in (30 x 45cm) oil of a grey Andalusian horse in a landscape by Marcus Hodge (b.1966) forms part of a new show dedicated to the equine artist’s latest works.
Guy Peppiatt offers view of Bristol burning in 1831
20 September 2021This dramatic scene depicts the burning of a warehouse in Wapping Wharf during the Bristol Riots of 1831.
5 Questions: Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar
20 September 2021Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar is a new exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair, which runs from September 30-October 3.
The many faces of Walter Sickert emerge at Piano Nobile exhibition
20 September 2021Nearly 80 years after Walter Sickert’s (1860-1942) death and ahead of a major retrospective planned at Tate Britain in 2022, London gallery Piano Nobile is bringing together over 40 of the artist’s figure paintings for an autumn show.
The web shop window: Heal’s oak chest of drawers
20 September 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.