The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included an auction of books personally inscribed by philosopher Karl Popper (1902-94) which were dropped off by an anonymous donor to Oxfam.

London’s Natural History Museum has acquired a newly identified dinosaur from Mayfair dealership David Aaron.

The galleries on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, have joined forces on a multi-part exhibition running all year.

Participants have been announced for this year’s PAD London.

Relocations and new gallery openings are among the latest Movers & Shakers. The latest news from around auction houses, ...

An enormous deceased estate in West Yorkshire has been providing Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (25% buyer’s premium) with a vast range of works to offload over the last two years. The late owner ...

An extraordinary Elizabethan swagger portrait drew dramatic competition at Bonhams’ latest Old Master sale. The three-quarter-length painting of the opulently dressed Sir Edward Monins of Waldershare ...

Still bearing the physical scars of battle, a monumental Union Jack flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar led Christie’s Exceptional Sale in London on July 1. It tipped over the estimate ...

A painting by Canaletto (1697-1768) once owned by the first British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole sold for £27.5m at Christie’s latest Old Master evening sale.

A ‘lost’ landscape by JMW Turner (1775-1851), thought to be the first oil painting the artist ever exhibited, sold for £1.5m at Sotheby’s latest Old Master evening sale. Depicting a former hot spa in ...

Early sales in the first hours of Treasure House Fair heated up the third edition of the Chelsea fair. Amid the heatwave sweeping the UK, exhibitors kept their cool and agreed deals in the opening ...

LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2. Newcomers to the fair this year include Gladwell & ...