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Sotheby’s have announced the appointment of Cécile Bernard as managing director of Sotheby’s France.

An antiques centre in Suffolk will remain open for up to two more years despite the owner of the building obtaining permission to convert the building into flats.

The list of contestants for this year’s NAVA Novice Auctioneer of the Year 2016 Awards has been released.

An archive telling the poignant story of one of the 300 nurses who lost their lives during the First World War sold for £11,200 at Hansons of Etwall latest sale.

Barbers Fine Art Auctioneers in Woking closed yesterday after nearly 100 years in business.

Ian Goldbart, lifelong coin collector and former managing director of AH Baldwin & Sons, is launching a new numismatic dealership and auction firm in Mayfair.

A presentation at today’s Art Business Conference suggested that the future of the art market has a mirror in the recent past of the diamond industry.

A lack of clarity on issues of censorship is affecting Dubai’s role as a centre for the art market, delegates at the Art Business Conference heard today.

The antiques industry now has the chance to influence any rethinking of laws that have compromised its trade as the UK heads towards Brexit, the MP Victoria Borwick said this morning.

The UK antiques trade have been given a near clean bill of health by the leading wildlife trade monitor Traffic.

Two London-based art recruitment agencies have joined forces to become D.R.A.W. Recruitment.

Following the lawsuits filed against New York-based appraisers Leigh and Lesley Keno, a further US regional auction house have now made a claim over unpaid debts.

A new one-day conference addressing the impact of art crime will be held in Gateshead on November 11. It will be held at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

A sword owned by Benjamin Franklin will be offered at an upcoming Christie’s sale in New York, estimated at $200,000-300,000.

French Energy and Environment Minister Ségolène Royal has strengthened laws in France on elephant ivory – but appeared to stop well short of a total ban suggested earlier in the year.

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

London Bridge is falling down, goes the song. A bit further upstream, it turns out that the Houses of Parliament are actually doing the falling down.

A temporary export bar has been placed on the coronet designed for Queen Victoria by her husband Prince Albert, giving UK buyers an opportunity to raise the £5m (plus £1m VAT) asking price to keep it in the country.

Salisbury auction house Woolley & Wallis are opening a Mayfair office.

With his trademark fez and deceptively shambolic stage persona, Tommy Cooper was one of Britain’s best known TV personalities. Now the Victoria & Albert Museum is acknowledging his fame and popularity with the announcement that they have acquired the comedian’s memorabilia collection.