Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
New premises for auction houses and dealers - the latest round up of Movers and Shakers
30 October 2026A new home for Hawley's Auctioneers in Yorkshire features in ATG’s latest expansion news.
Making moves and taking over: latest gallery news
30 October 2026Frances Allitt and Laura Chesters report on business developments in Paris, London and Dorset
Missing music album artwork for Yes recovered after 50 years
30 October 2026Roger Dean’s original artwork for Fragile, the 1971 album by British progressive rock band Yes, had been missing for 50 years.
LAPADA Fair opening evening a success despite power cut glitch
29 October 2026An intermittent power cut at the preview evening of LAPADA Fair in Berkeley Square did not hinder visitors and sales.
UK art market must "continue to speak with one voice"
27 October 2026The art and antiques market must continue to speak with one voice to ensure its views are heard in government.
Plea for UK buyer to raise £15,000 for prehistoric British battle-axe head
26 October 2026The government has issued a temporary export block on a 4000-year-old battle-axe head in the hope a UK institution can rase the £15,000 needed to keep it in the UK.
Second taxidermied Tasmanian tiger or thylacine emerges at Bristol auction house
23 October 2026Are Tasmanian tigers like buses? In Bristol they are. Having not seen one in ages, Auctioneum is preparing to auction a second Tasmanian tiger head.
Tribal Art London returns to Evolution London above The Decorative Fair
23 October 2026Visitors from overseas filtered through to the mezzanine level of Evolution London, Battersea Park, above The Decorative Fair to see Tribal Art London.
Happy Christmas gift to V&A in the form of Suffragette greeting
23 October 2026The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a rare c.1910 Suffragette Christmas card after it was donated by WeBuyVintage.
Encouraging signs at The Decorative Fair in Battersea in the face of growing global economic woes
23 October 2026Standholders at the latest Decorative Fair report strong demand for good-quality objects
Question time with sculpture dealer Patricia Wengraf
23 October 2026Patricia Wengraf has been a London art dealer since 1979. Her specialisms are bronzes, sculptures and works of art. She is renowned for her knowledge of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, having written books and articles on the topic, and regularly works with museums.
Circular argument: should dealers see red and go dotty or not?
23 October 2026Among the hot topics of conversation between art and antiques dealers at Frieze Masters earlier this month (in between discussions on what museums were spending and which super-wealthy collectors were in town) was whether to red dot or not.
Antiques dealer Mark Goodger and son debut at The Decorative Fair in Battersea
23 October 2026Like father, like son. Antiques dealer Mark Goodger has welcomed his son Jake into the business and they exhibited at their first fair together as colleagues at Battersea’s The Decorative Fair.
WeBuyVintage expansion plans includes valuers training academy
23 October 2026Leeds-born, and now Cambridge-based, WeBuyVintage holds roadshow events to value vintage and collectable items for the general public and buys items to sell on.
Map thief sentenced to three years in prison after stealing a 17th century map from Greenwich library
22 October 2026A man who pleaded guilty to stealing a page from a 17th century atlas from a library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has been sentenced to three years in prison.
New antiquities record set in New York as Roman marble is hammered down at $29.2m
22 October 2026A new auction record for any antiquity has been set at Sotheby’s New York.
More than 40 museums bought items at TEFAF fairs in Maastricht and New York
21 October 2026The latest sales announced by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) following recent fairs in Maastricht and New York included purchases by more than 40 different museums.
Stolen Renoir paintings recovered after police investigation
20 October 2026Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen from a museum on the French Riviera have been recovered almost a month after a burglary.
Sotheby’s reveals new in-house shipping and packing policy using its own service
16 October 2026Sotheby’s has launched a new policy for packing, collection, delivery and shipping of items globally.
Question time with John Hansord of Hansord Antiques
16 October 2026Hansord Antiques was founded in 1972 by David Hansord, joined later by his son John. Over the years it has traded from a number of premises including originally in the centre of Lincoln on Castle Hill.