The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included an auction of books personally inscribed by philosopher Karl Popper (1902-94) which were dropped off by an anonymous donor to Oxfam.

London’s Natural History Museum has acquired a newly identified dinosaur from Mayfair dealership David Aaron.

The galleries on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, have joined forces on a multi-part exhibition running all year.

Participants have been announced for this year’s PAD London.

Relocations and new gallery openings are among the latest Movers & Shakers. The latest news from around auction houses, ...

An extraordinary Elizabethan swagger portrait drew dramatic competition at Bonhams’ latest Old Master sale. The three-quarter-length painting of the opulently dressed Sir Edward Monins of Waldershare ...

An enormous deceased estate in West Yorkshire has been providing Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (25% buyer’s premium) with a vast range of works to offload over the last two years. The late owner ...

A painting by Canaletto (1697-1768) once owned by the first British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole sold for £27.5m at Christie’s latest Old Master evening sale.

Still bearing the physical scars of battle, a monumental Union Jack flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar led Christie’s Exceptional Sale in London on July 1. It tipped over the estimate ...

A ‘lost’ landscape by JMW Turner (1775-1851), thought to be the first oil painting the artist ever exhibited, sold for £1.5m at Sotheby’s latest Old Master evening sale. Depicting a former hot spa in ...

LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2. Newcomers to the fair this year include Gladwell & ...

The latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London raised a combined £97.8m. This compared to £132.3m from the ...