Events and conferences

THE vital part trade has played in the history of collecting is the theme of a two-day conference at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on June 15 and 16.

THE shortlist for Britain’s Best Antiques Awards is now in – the winners to be announced next month.

THE Birmingham Assay Office is launching a new one-day course, Buying Scrap Gold and Silver, on January.

ALL things Asian were in the spotlight in London last week as the capital celebrated Asian Art in London, with a raft of dealers' shows and specialist auctions.

ARE you the owner of an antiques shop, vintage shop, antiques centre or auction house? Are you keen to be nominated as one of Britain’s best antiques shops? There have been 1900 nominations so far.

ATG Editor-in-Chief Mark Bridge, centre, announced the winners of the Antiques Trade Gazette 2011 Awards for outstanding works of art on sale during Asian Art in London at the Gala Party in The Dome at the Victoria and Albert Museum on November 8.

HONITON in Devon is the first town to announce a major festival to mark National Antiques Week.

BRITAIN'S dealers and auctioneers are being encouraged to promote themselves as never before in the search for the country's best antiques businesses.

SOTHEBY’S Institute are hosting a one-day conference on the nature of risk at their Bedford Square headquarters on September 23.

THE Fifth Annual Art Investment Conference will take place on May 27 at the London Business School and this year’s theme is Art Investment in the New Information Age. It will focus on the impact of increasing transparency on the global art market and how to adapt.

THE National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) are holding their annual forum for chattels auctioneers and valuers – or anyone with an interest in the industry – at The Belfry, West Midlands just off the M42 on May 9.

THE organisers of Asian Art in London have announced that this year, for the first time, they will allow dealers from outside the UK to take part.

FORMER Scotland Yard Art & Antiques Squad detective Vernon Rapley is one of two speakers at a lecture on art crime at the Royal Geographical Society on April 5.

THE Newark-based fairs organisers B2B Events are launching a fair in May at a new venue in the East Midlands.

The Antiques Trade Gazette Awards for the two outstanding works of art on sale during Asian Art in London were presented at the crowded Gala Party held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

AN iPhone App has been launched to guide vistors around the galleries, auction houses and museums during Asian Art in London which runs from November 4 to 13.

THE spectre of a nationalised Drouot haunted delegates at the Annual Congress of French auctioneers’ union SYMEV, held at Artcurial’s Champs-Elysées premises earlier this month.

THIS year's National Antiques Week is November 15-21 with the aim of the annual promotion being to raise the public profile of the antiques trade and encourage young people to visit shops and fairs.

CHARLES Hampshire of Peter Francis auctioneers in Carmarthen has won the NAVA National Auctioneer of the Year Award.

THE Ashley-Russell case will be the focus of the next Fakes and Forgeries seminar at Goldsmiths' Hall in London on November 22.