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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic caused the global art market to contract by nearly a quarter.

An auction titled Richard Dennis: 50 Years Promoting British Ceramics (1971-2021) will be held next month.

The Chelsea Antiques Fair has confirmed dates for the autumn and hired a new director.

BADA Ltd, the organiser of The Open Art Fair, has lost an appeal against a small claims court ruling that said two dealers need pay only part of their stand fee as the event was cut short.

The UK government is proposing a fee structure to cover the costs of processing antiques that qualify as exemptions under the 2018 Ivory Act.

A new art and antiques fair is being planned for the end of November to replace the Paris Biennale (Biennale des Antiquaires).

A late work by LS Lowry (1887-1976), which had never appeared on the open market before, overshot a £60,000- 90,000 estimate at Tennants’ latest Modern & Contemporary art sale.

This Georgian grant of arms document on vellum was presented to the celebrated Scottish physician Gilbert Blane (1749-1834) after his creation as a baronet by The Prince Regent in 1812.

Police are investigating the provenance of a collection of Japanese ivories in connection with a high-value burglary in Surrey.

Sir Winston Churchill’s towering presence in the art market was on full display last week as his auction record was broken four-and-a-half times over.

Fair organisers are now planning for the spring and summer as the roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions in England allows outdoor events to be held from April.

Kensington and Chelsea Council is launching a new five-year plan for Portobello Road Market and is asking the trade to submit feedback.

A Surrey clockmaker has made a replica of a celebrated English barometer that is now lost.

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

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

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

Dealer and fair founder Patricia Harvey has died.

Plans for shop reopenings, new fair dates and rescheduled auctions are under way as the art and antiques sector welcomed the news of the government ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown in England.

The UK government has confirmed to ATG that it has “no plans to make changes to either the rates of Artist’s Resale Right that are applied or how the levy operates” following the post-Brexit trade deal agreed with the EU.