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National Portrait Gallery appoints its first female director

29 August 2024

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has announced the former fair organiser Victoria Siddall as its new director.

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Soho gallery celebrates 50th anniversary of David Bowie album

28 August 2024

David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' was released in 1974 and Muphoria in Soho is marking the occasion with a Pop Art show

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Would you believe it? Rare Billy Nicholls LP appears at auction

27 August 2024

'Would You Believe' was geared up to be Britain’s response to 'Pet Sounds' by The Beach Boys but was instead shelved

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Mayfair dealer Lyndsey Ingram launches new gallery

27 August 2024

Lyndsey Ingram spent the last year restoring an Edwardian stable and is launching the new Mayfair space with a Georgie Hopton show

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Five questions with Andreas Schmid of Schmid McDonagh

27 August 2024

Schmid McDonagh is a dealership of 20th and 21st century objects, furniture, jewellery, art, design and books based in Church Street, north-west London. It will be exhibiting at the Battersea Decorative Fair in October. ATG spoke to co-founder Andreas Schmid.

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Hockney prints at five and four figures

27 August 2024

Two works representing different ends of the David Hockney (b.1937) prints market came up at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples.

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Medal gave thanks for Titanic rescue mission

27 August 2024

Noonans’ (24% buyer’s premium) sale in London on July 17 offered a rare Carpathia and Titanic bronze medal.

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Close friends Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan are focus of London dealer's show

21 August 2024

A forthcoming exhibition explores the rich legacy of Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan who broke with the conventions of post-war Britain

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Export bar placed on Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers

20 August 2024

A remarkable archive of newly discovered scientific papers by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley has been temporarily blocked from export.

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Manuscript copy of Leonardo da Vinci treatise tops third Brooker sale

19 August 2024

Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings

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Dealer Liss Llewellyn creates a window into world of Great Bardfield

19 August 2024

This summer Liss Llewellyn is hosting an intriguing online show called 'Long Live Great Bardfield'.

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Five questions with dealer and fair organiser Darren Hudson

19 August 2024

Darren Hudson is the proprietor of Hudson Antiques. For the last eight years he has been organiser of the thrice-yearly Decorative Fair in Battersea Park. The next starts on October 1.

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Venetian dreams and Irish charm in artist's new show

17 August 2024

British painter Alan Cotton has the Royal seal of approval and a new show at Messum's highlights his skill for capturing the fading sun in choice locations

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Christie’s brokers sale of Alma-Tadema from Isabel Goldsmith’s collection to The National Gallery

16 August 2024

The National Gallery in London has acquired a major work by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) from the collection of Isabel Goldsmith.

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Mayfair gallery highlights Modern British art rarities

15 August 2024

A photo of a Hollywood legend by Francis Bacon's drinking sidekick to a radical lithograph inspired by Charlotte Brontë are highlights of this summer show.

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Example of early AI art in demand at Chiswick Auctions

14 August 2024

As with most other areas of life, it remains difficult to say at present whether artificial intelligence will end up having a transformational effect on the art market or not.

Obituary: Portobello Road antiques dealer John Odgers

12 August 2024

John Odgers passed away peacefully on July 13 aged 82.

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Five questions with costume and luggage dealer Leslie Verrinder

12 August 2024

Leslie Verrinder started with an accessories stall in Camden but is now a happy fixture in Alfies Antique Market on Church Street, north-west London.

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Find bargains and a beer at So Last Century's new market in Gipsy Hill

12 August 2024

Alan Old of So Last Century has started a new antiques market at the Gipsy Hill Brewery’s Taproom, near Crystal Palace in south London.

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Roll up, roll up for an auction extravaganza of fairground memorabilia

10 August 2024

All the fun of the fair comes to Bonhams New Bond Street with a sale featuring an array of vintage and antique fairground figures and carvings, ride seats shaped as animals, games and posters.

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