2025

Book and ephemera fairs organiser Etc Fairs’ usual London venue, Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, is closed until February 2026 for refurbishment.

Art Market Minds, the organiser behind The Art Business Conference, has launched new events this year and its flagship event returns for its 11th edition.

A manuscript linked to a Spanish conquistador and believed stolen in the 1980s has been given to the Mexican government.

Just four months after the sale of a 6.22ct old-cut Kashmir sapphire for an Irish record of €550,000 (£461,250), Adam’s in Dublin is offering two more of the fabled gemstones.

The sticky wicket in terms of the market for cricketing pictures was in evidence this summer as Dreweatts (27% buyer’s premium) sold off a large group of works from the collection of the late Mark Loveday.

In a poignant tribute to one of track and field's most revolutionary figures, items once owned by Olympic high jump gold medallist Dick Fosbury have been sold by Heritage Auctions in Dallas.

Four top secret Second World War documents are to go on public display at a Jersey museum after being sold at auction by Hansons.

A self-portrait by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) featured on the stand of David Lévy at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Two works on paper caught bidders’ eyes at a sale at Stamford Auction Rooms (24% buyer’s premium) this summer.

With estimates from £300, here are four previews of items coming up at auction this week

‘The Lawes Resolutions of Women’s Rights: or the Lawes Provision for Women’, attributed to the English lawyer Thomas Edgar and printed in 1632 by John More, is recognised as the earliest book in the English language to compile laws relating to women.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of works on paper specialist Forum Auctions separating from parent company Gurr Johns

This year’s edition of Frieze Masters features a number of collaborations and several new exhibitors.

If this small portrait of Edward VII looks a bit like a postage stamp, that’s no surprise.

An Anglo-Saxon silver penny with the first recorded use of the name ‘Exeter’ has been acquired by that city’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery.

Auction house Sotheby’s has announced the opening date of its New York headquarters at the Breuer Building.

Jubilee Market in Covent Garden is marking a half-century in business.

A selection of European galleries join the Masters section at Frieze Seoul as the fair returns for its four edition from September 3-6.

The owner of an antiques centre has warned others how to avoid being a burglary victim after £30,000 of jewellery was taken within two minutes.

What was thought to be the largest private collection of Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) garments to be sold outside London went under the hammer at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) in North Yorkshire on August 15.