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This year’s edition of Frieze Masters features a number of collaborations and several new exhibitors.
Lowestoft Porcelain The East Anglian fishing port of Lowestoft, set far away from the other centres of 18th century porcelain production like London, Staffordshire or Liverpool, began producing ...
Pot Lids It was Felix Edward Pratt (1813-94) who spotted the commercial possibilities of using new printing technology to decorate the lids of containers for popular products such as bear's grease, ...
If this small portrait of Edward VII looks a bit like a postage stamp, that’s no surprise. The artist was the Austrian-American painter and medallist Emil Fuchs (1866-1929). As well as produc… ...
A selection of European galleries join the Masters section at Frieze Seoul as the fair returns for its four edition from September 3-6. Of the 120 galleries appearing at the fair, 20 are in the Frieze ...
Auction house Sotheby’s has announced the opening date of its New York headquarters at the Breuer Building. The new premises at 945 Madison Avenue will open its doors on November 8, ahead of the ...
Jubilee Market in Covent Garden has celebrated 50 years in business. The seven-day-a-week operation hosts an antiques market every Monday running from 5am to 5pm. The c… ...
An Anglo-Saxon silver penny with the first recorded use of the name ‘Exeter’ has been acquired by that city’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery.
Gold jewellery that had belonged to a family in south London for generations was stolen in a burglary while the residents were still at home. Now police have released images of the jewellery ...
The AMI Continental II jukebox appeared in 1962, a time when space race excitement was gripping the US. This radical look was noteworthy because jukeboxes until then were often inspired by the design ...
What was thought to be the largest private collection of Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) garments to be sold outside London went under the hammer at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) in North Yorkshire on ...
The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund has successfully raised £3.8m after a public appeal to save Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red. The sculpture was blocked from ...