Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Textiles made with spider silk weave their magic at Oliver Hoare gallery's latest show
27 September 2021Unexpected, unusual and often overseen objects are the stock in trade of art gallery Oliver Hoare.
5 Questions: Ian Grutchfield
27 September 2021Ian Grutchfield is venue director of Hadleigh Old School, a new art space in Suffolk.
John McLusky's 007 comic strip drawings offered at Abbott and Holder
27 September 2021Coinciding with the new (and long-awaited) release of James Bond film 'No Time To Die', Bloomsbury gallery Abbott and Holder is holding an exhibition of original drawings made for the serialisation of Ian Fleming’s novels in the 'Daily Express'.
Hodge and his horses
27 September 2021Available to buy for £2800, this 12 x 18in (30 x 45cm) oil of a grey Andalusian horse in a landscape by Marcus Hodge (b.1966) forms part of a new show dedicated to the equine artist’s latest works.
Climate change collection sounds the alarm
27 September 2021With the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26) on the horizon, rare books specialist Peter Harrington is using Frieze Masters to launch an ambitious new collection of books and original manuscripts charting the history of climate change and environmentalism.
Female sculptors make a mark
27 September 2021Waddington Custot is one of the latest galleries to celebrate the work of pioneering 20th century women.
The web shop window: Heal’s oak chest of drawers
20 September 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Dealer spots “dirty and unattributed” portrait and sells it back to historic mansion
20 September 2021This recently discovered 18th century portrait was painted by John Vanderbank (1694-1739) and depicts Holles St John of Lydiard Park.
The many faces of Walter Sickert emerge at Piano Nobile exhibition
20 September 2021Nearly 80 years after Walter Sickert’s (1860-1942) death and ahead of a major retrospective planned at Tate Britain in 2022, London gallery Piano Nobile is bringing together over 40 of the artist’s figure paintings for an autumn show.
‘Harrogate’ fair gathers pace in Leyburn
20 September 2021After enforced absence Northern Antiques Fair returns to the calendar at new venue
Guy Peppiatt offers view of Bristol burning in 1831
20 September 2021This dramatic scene depicts the burning of a warehouse in Wapping Wharf during the Bristol Riots of 1831.
A harvest jug festival: new book is first of its kind
20 September 2021The first dedicated published study on the harvest jug tradition of North Devon and the West Country goes on sale this September.
5 Questions: Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar
20 September 2021Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar is a new exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair, which runs from September 30-October 3.
Seeking to ride the interiors wave at the Battersea Fair
13 September 2021Decorative Fair returns to Battersea after long absence as demand soars for home furnishings
The lure of Japan for Mortimer Menpes
13 September 2021Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), who painted this portrait titled 'The Yellow Parasol' visited Japan in the 1880s and 1890s.
Matchbook making at Sims Reed
13 September 2021Mass-produced in America for several decades from the 1930s onwards, so-called ‘matchbooks’ were used to advertise alcohol in the post-prohibition era.
The web shop window: French still life by Jules Cavaillès
13 September 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Ethnographic art dealer Kenn Mackay
13 September 2021Dealer and collector Kenn Mackay developed an interest in ethnographic art during his travels in the early 1980s.
Remembering the glyphic arts
13 September 2021In addition to its uniqueness and connection to the past, a big attraction to owning a piece of ancient jewellery is that it can still be worn.
5 Questions: David Brooker of David Brooker Fine Art
06 September 2021David Brooker of David Brooker Fine Art has been specialising in English and European paintings from the 17th to 21st centuries for over 20 years.