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Auction houses are getting back to normal for this latest staging of the New York Asian art spotlight, although new import taxes are having an effect.

The first fine art sale of 2021 at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s premium) will be remembered for the spectacular £100,000 bid for a Mary Beale (1633-99) work.

Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’

Roadmap means reopening time is getting closer at last but some hurdles remain.

At the peak of his fame in the 1969, the Anglo-Italian jewellery designer Andrew Grima was invited by Omega to create what would become the About Time collection.

West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is targeting a late spring return following the government announcement that hospitality venues would be permitted to reopen indoors as part of ‘stage three’ of its timetable for easing Covid-19 restrictions in England.

This oil on board by the French artist Luigi Loir (1845-1916) depicting a beach scene, is one of the lots that will feature in Crescent City Auction Galleries’ three-day spring sale to be held from March 12-14 in New Orleans.

Adrian Gilmour, co-owner of the Hungerford Arcade, is thrilled at news that non-essential retail can reopen in April.

A group of portrait miniatures has been gifted to the Warwickshire art gallery and country house Compton Verney.

Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.

A mid-20th century mirror by French designer and metalworker Gilbert Poillerat (1902-88) is one of the highlights at Bonhams in Los Angeles on March 25.

A specialist in early European sculpture and works of art, Matthew Holder established his eponymous gallery in 2011 on London’s Portobello Road.

Hindman is holding an auction of Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection on March 19.

New grants will be available for people reopening shops, galleries and antiques centres after lockdown.

With classic watches usually priced in five or six figures, it is worth discovering the less well-known brands and especially those from the 1980s, says newly appointed Lyon & Turnbull specialist Sarah Fergusson

Bonhams is to auction the remaining stock of the long-established London Chinese art dealership Roger Keverne.

Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 was among the first commercially successful electronic watch.

The Oysterdate Monte Carlo series were the first chronographs produced by Tudor.

One 1870s Thomas Hardy work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed

Without the usual January influx of collectors, curators and dealers to the Big Apple, two significant art-buying dealer events decided to go virtual. For some exhibitors, the results were better than expected.