Internet

A Cork Street gallery has become the first in the UK to accept digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

Professional eBay sellers in the UK with turnover of more than £85,000 will be asked to pay VAT on their fees when the online marketplace restructures later this year.

The overall value of online sales in the art market increased by 15% in the last year although many buyers remain unconvinced about purchasing works online, according to Hiscox Online Art Trade Report.

The founder of Value My Stuff, Patrick van der Vorst, has bought back the online valuation firm after its parent company Auctionata entered administration.

Online auction house Auctionata is closing down after an attempt to find new investment failed to materialise.

The ninth annual LAPADA Conference opened yesterday with a sobering reminder to dealers that they could fall victim to cybercrime.

ATG delves into the data of its sister brand, online platform thesaleroom.com, to uncover this year's top prices for items bought online at auction.

ATG delves into the data of its sister brand, online platform thesaleroom.com, to uncover this year's top estimate-busters.

A group of art and antiques dealers, fairs and museums have become the first to use the new internet domain name of ‘.art’.

James Podger, founder of Great Grooms Antiques Centre, has taken the ethos of his bricks-and-mortar dealer hubs online with the launch of a new dealer portal.

Social media is a low risk, low cost outlet for dealers and auction houses to promote their wares.

A new online auction platform featuring free listings and eight percent commission launched yesterday.

The Cotswold Auction Company have moved into a new permanent saleroom in Cirencester.

A new antiques sourcing website, Looking for Antiques, has been launched after a construction period of nine years.

An auction of a Thracian coin – minted in the city of Apollonia Pontica (in modern-day Bulgaria) in the 4th or 5th century BC – was halted by eBay on the grounds the listing was ‘hateful or discriminatory’.

Competition among online art trade start-ups is mounting judging by the number of new platforms launched during the past few months.

As our next Prime Minister negotiates our exit from the EU from September, she/he will have many pressing priorities. In this 'letter' the industry sets out its own priorities in the hope of relief from the red tape that bedevils our sector