2017

Tim Goodman’s Fine Art Bourse (FAB) has entered into an advertising row with Facebook over nudity rules at the social media giant.

Fieldings Auctioneers founder Will Farmer has lent his support to Poole Pottery which is facing eviction from its Dorset home.

The next Affordable Art Fair (AAF) takes place in Bristol and runs from September 8-10. It features more than 50 exhibitors offering works by living artists priced from £100-6000.

A melancholic portrait of a young Malay woman by Irma Stern (1894-1966) will be offered at Bonhams’ upcoming sale of South African art in London.

The theft of a 19th century postbox in Asthall Leigh in west Oxfordshire earlier this year has led local councillors to fear criminals are targeting specific postboxes to sell on for hundreds of pounds.

The impact on the art market of the UK's withdrawal from the EU is likely to be the key talking point at this year’s Art Business Conference on September 6 in London.

Martin Roth, the former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, has died aged 62.

A new London fair is planned to take place in Kensington next March. The Kensington & Chelsea Decorative, Art & Antiques Fair has been organised by Daniel Cotton, who currently runs the Little Chelsea Antiques Fair.

A Stroud antiques centre has launched a petition to stay after its landlord issued a notice to end the lease.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others.

London gallery Bowman Sculpture has a sold an Emily Young sculpture to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, US.

A Dorset antiques centre holds its first auction tomorrow.

Five antiquities dealers were arrested by Israeli police in Jerusalem last week in connection with items that were illegally imported into the US by the arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby.

The eye-watering sums that footballer Neymar is set to earn as part of his £200m record transfer from Barcelona to Paris St Germain are put into perspective by another contract from a different era (in so many senses).

Dating from the early to mid-18th century, the large, roughly 16 x 14in wood engraving called ‘Shone-Ap-Morgan, Shentleman of Wales’ seen below is an exceptionally rare broadside that was sold for £1200 in a Dominic Winter auction this summer.

Sotheby’s revenues for the second quarter of 2017 rose 5% but its profit fell 14% to $76.9m due to a rise in expenses and a decline at its financial services arm.

First time buyers can find shopping for art an intimidating experience. Whether put off by high prices or intimidated by the rarefied air of commercial galleries, new collectors can find the initial step the most difficult.

Modern British art specialist Pallant House Gallery hopes to raise the final thousands of pounds needed to keep Christopher Wood’s ‘China Dogs in a St Ives Window’ (1926) in its Chichester gallery.

A record for a Casablanca movie poster was made last week when an Italian example sold for a premium-inclusive $478,000 (£361,800).

When 22-carat golden eggs made by the Queen’s jeweller became available to the public for free back in 1983 it inevitably caused a stir. There was a snag, however. A big snag.