Organisations

Trade organisations play an important role in the art and antiques market. Their remit may include lobbying, communicating information to members, offering professional development and qualifications, organising events, setting standards and ensuring adherence to them.

Other organisations listed in this section perform different functions such as providing online marketplaces, education or supplying other services to the art and antiques trade.

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York National Book Fair ‘suits younger crowd’

25 August 2025

While a Rowntree centenary brings historic interest, exhibitors are also focused on attracting fresh faces

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Charitable donations among news and updates in BADA Friends' latest newsletter

15 August 2025

BADA Friends are supporting two charitable efforts according to the organisation’s second digital newsletter.

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Latest Arts Council annual report reveals six objects saved for the nation

25 July 2025

Half a dozen artworks were saved for the nation in the past year and are on display at museums across the UK.

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BADA Prize call for submission as fifth edition announced

22 July 2025

‘Antiques of tomorrow’ celebrated in contemporary art award

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Art and antiques trade braced for new EU cultural goods laws

16 July 2025

Details of how to manage the new European Union regulations on importing cultural goods have emerged, sending shockwaves through the art and antiques trade.

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LAPADA Pavilion no longer part of The Game Fair

14 July 2025

LAPADA dealers will not take part in this summer’s 'The Game Fair'.

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Newcomers sign up for latest LAPADA art and antiques fair

26 June 2025

LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2.

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CINOA issues rallying cry for the art trade to unite

19 June 2025

The new president of CINOA has issued a call for unity across the cultural sector in response to “increasingly restrictive legislation affecting the global art and antiques trade”.

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Book fairs: New event fills a north-west hole

16 June 2025

Kirkby Lonsdale is the first of three fresh PBFA fairs this year with Frome and Dorchester to follow

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Plea to save Hepworth sculpture for the nation

05 June 2025

Museum and Art Fund launch fundraising to save Barbara Hepworth sculpture

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Artwork recovered after theft 30 years ago in Canada

28 May 2025

A 1930s linocut by British-Canadian artist Sybil Andrews has been recovered after being stolen more than 30 years ago.

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Rising costs compel art dealers to work together

22 May 2025

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs.

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Binding the book trade together: how associations work to protect and promote dealers

12 May 2025

Trade associations play a valuable role in representing their members, organising fairs and events and, among many other things, making sense of changes in legislation – particularly useful when US policy on tariffs seems to change every five minutes.

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Fairs: London’s May book bonanza

12 May 2025

Our look ahead at fairs coming up in the capital, including the Firsts and PBFA events held a short hop apart on the same weekend

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Shanks joins LADAPA as new chief executive to replace Simms

28 April 2025

LAPADA, The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Shanks as its new chief executive officer from June 2025.

LAPADA fair will team up with luxury jewellery ‘collective’

17 March 2025

The next LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair will partner with luxury jewellery ‘collective’ Haute Jewels.

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BAMF welcomes import duty change for art and antiques

13 March 2025

The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) has welcomed the government’s announcement of changes to the Temporary Admission procedure, which relieves the import duties for eligible goods that are imported temporarily.

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Agatha Christie first edition on offer at Harrogate Book Fair

10 March 2025

To mark the new-look Harrogate Book Fair dealer Anthony Smithson of The Keel Row Bookshop in Whitley Bay will be offering for sale a 1948 first edition of the Hercule Poirot novel 'Taken At the Flood' signed by Agatha Christie.

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BADA Friends fund purchase for Tudor-Jacobean mansion

04 March 2025

BADA Friends has supported the purchase of a footstool for Temple Newsam in Leeds.

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Book fair opportunity to celebrate Austen birthday

10 February 2025

This year is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 1775 and among the many celebratory events is Miss Austen, a four-episode drama currently airing on BBC 1, which is based on the novelist’s sister Cassandra.

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