Organisations

A decade on since Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) was launched in the UK, over £50m has been collected from auctions and dealers for artists and their heirs.

The Art Loss Register (ALR) has located two paintings stolen from a home in Amsterdam in 2010.

The British Antiques Dealers’ Association (BADA) have bought new premises near the Square Mile in London, just three months after the sale of its Rutland Gate headquarters in Kensington.

A painting of a Parisian street scene stolen in New York has been recovered by the Art Recovery Group. The painting had been consigned to a Miami art gallery in November last year by a private individual.

Thesaleroom.com, sister brand to ATG, has hit a milestone one million unique visitors in January, representing a 160% uplift on numbers for that period last year and an all-time high for the site.

An increasingly bitter spat between two UK art recovery agencies – the Art Loss Register and the Art Recovery Group – has reached the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.

ATG MEDIA has just welcomed a new deputy editor to the recently expanded editorial team.

Carolyn Dailey, former Time Warner UK managing director, is confirmed as the keynote speaker at the 2016 LAPADA Conference on February 24.

Despite some welcome exceptions, 2015 proved a unspectacular year for Britain and Ireland’s regional fine art auctioneers with one in three salerooms experiencing a fall in sales.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association is to launch live online auctions for its members starting in June.

With the British Antique Dealers’ Association to launch live online auctions for its members in June, ATG spoke with BADA Chairman Michael Cohen about the initiative.

The Society of Fine Arts Auctioneers (SOFAA) and the RICS are holding a seminar in Crewkerne on February 18 aimed at those starting out on their auctioneering career.

The Antiques Trade Gazette has hired a new reporter as the 45-year-old title continues its evolution online and in print. Frances Allitt, a fine art underwriter and magazine columnist, starts on January 11.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association is p09nning to mount a campaign with other business bodies to halt a government plan to require all businesses, regardless of size, to file tax returns on a quarterly, digital basis rather than annually.

ATG Media, parent of the Antiques Trade Gazette, and Mail Boxes Etc have joined forces to provide a new delivery service for buyers on thesaleroom.com.

In response to the new Consumer Rights Act, the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers have produced two different versions of their model terms and conditions – one for bricks and mortar ‘onsite’ auctions and another for online-only sales.

Penman Fairs will launch a new London event for 2016 called ‘Art, Antiques & Design’.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association has sold its Knightbridge headquarters for a “multi-million pound sum” as it continues to evolve into a proactive 21st century trade association.

Leading specialists will debate the use of scientific testing in Asian art at an event to coincide with Asian Art in London (November 5-14).

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