Internet

LEADING US regional saleroom Skinner are to launch an online-only auction platform.

BUSINESS is really booming when it comes to the world of live online auctions.

THE larger auction houses which have their own in-house live bidding are also seeing online bids becoming increasingly significant to their business.

FOR provincial auctioneers, online bidding has clearly been a massive boon… and even a lifeline.

AUCTION Atrium, the online auction house based in Kensington Church Street, London, has announced that it has ceased trading.

PROFESSIONAL Advisers to the International Art Market (PAIAM) has launched an online directory of professional members.

A NEW live auction platform which will give UK auctioneers direct access to Chinese bidders has been launched in Beijing.

This week sees the launch of Figaro Enchères, a joint venture between ATG Media and French national newspaper Le Figaro.

AN iPhone App has been launched to guide vistors around the galleries, auction houses and museums during Asian Art in London which runs from November 4 to 13.

SOTHEBY’S have launched a retail and online wine business based in New York.

TECHNOLOGY is increasingly important in the art market but a pair of oils by the Anglo-Australian artist William Blamire Young (1862-1935), is believed to be the first significant work identified and consigned to auction through Christie’s iPhone application.

CANTERBURY Auction Galleries are to embark on a new sales format that will double the number of fine sales held annually and offer every lot to a potential worldwide audience of Internet bidders.

ATG’s parent company, ATG Media, has agreed to provide the technology for the first live internet bidding site in Germany.

SINCE the last ATG conference in May 2009, the vision that Nigel Worboys outlined is now a reality, with many businesses following his lead.

AS court proceedings draw closer, Christie’s have upped their long-running damages claim against Artprice from 2m euros to a hefty 63m euros. The auction house originally filed the suit against the French art database in 2008, saying that the reproduction of e-catalogues on their website constitutes copyright and trademark infringement.

EIGHT UK salerooms have been short-listed for the ATG Online Auctioneer of the Year award.

THE familiar Art and Antiques mini-catalogues synonymous with Bonhams' regional general sales are to disappear at the end of the year.

THE Antiques are Green campaign, launched by Beaconsfield dealer Nigel Worboys earlier this year, is gaining momentum. Now we want as many people to back it as possible.

IN a fresh attempt to help the fight against the illicit art trade, the international police organisation Interpol has made its database of stolen art available to access online.

ATG's www.the-saleroom.com launches the first live internet bidding sale in Beijing this Friday. The Seasonal Sale at Huachen Auctions offered an online catalogue in both English and Chinese via the-saleroom's online platform.