2018

A new art and luxury insurance division has been formed as a result of AXA’s acquisition of XL Group.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get one of the objects from a former home of Charlie Watts, the legendary Rolling Stones drummer.

A gold medal awarded to the bursar on board the RMS Carpathia, the ship that famously rescued survivors from the Titanic in 1912, will be offered at Bourne End Auction Rooms this summer.

Members of the House of Lords have called for amendments to the bill to ban the trade in objects made of or containing ivory.

The 1977 California Resale Royalties Act has effectively been shelved after panel of judges struck down the law – the US’s only ‘droit de suite’ law for visual artists.

Auction Technology Group (ATG) - parent company of Antiques Trade Gazette and thesaleroom.com – has hired a new chief technology officer.

Blockchain for the art world is a big opportunity but caution is needed. That was the verdict from Christie’s Art + Tech Summit.

Staffordshire’s Potteries Auctions is expanding with a second saleroom to increase its auction frequency to two a month.

A first edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is among the Brontë books being offered by rare bookseller Peter Harrington to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Emily Brontë on July 30.

Global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips jumped 21.6% in the first half of 2018, according to the latest report by ArtTactic.

A Yorkshire collector who bought what he thought was a replica antique bottle at a fair for just £30 has sold it for a hammer price of £18,000 at auction after discovering it really was from the 17th century.

A white-glove sale of a 3000-book agriculture library reached a hammer total of £1.76m over two days at Forum Auctions last week.

Auction house Bonhams is sponsoring Waterloo Uncovered, an archaeological dig at the battlefield of Waterloo.

This week’s quotes roundup crosses international boundaries and maps a route through the Hundred Acre Wood. From auction records to digitised export licences we bring you our selection of stand-out quotes from dealers, auctioneers and other members of the trade.

US West Coast auction firm PBA Galleries is holding its first sale dedicated to writing instruments in its San Francisco rooms on July 19.

Watercolours and drawings from the personal collection of artist Sir Quentin Blake (b. 1932) have been sold at Christie’s for over £750,000.

The 10th anniversary staging of the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair takes place in September featuring 100 exhibitors and a new fair manager.

A Washington DC appeals court has upheld a decision to allow a ‘Nazi forced sale’ claim against a spectacular collection of medieval devotional art to go to trial in the US.

The cost of smoking is going crazy – someone has just paid £29,000 for a packet of cigarettes in the West Midlands.