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UK art market

World art market stalls for first time in years

December 25, 2019March 11, 2016 by Editorial Team

Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines

Categories Art, Business Tags Alternative investments, Art, Art and design, art market, Art sales, art sales 2016, art works sold, Article, Bonham’s Asia, Bonhams, business, Culture, investments, Maev Kennedy, Main section, Money, news, Sotheby's, Sotheby’s in London, TEFAF, TEFAF art fair, The art market, The Guardian, UK art market, UK news, Wealthy Middle East, works of art, World art market

Stop flogging statues, and give museums a slice of the art market pie

December 25, 2019July 15, 2014 by Editorial Team

An Egyptian statue from Northampton museum has been sold for £16m. There has to be a better solution to the funding crisis

Categories Art, Business Tags art market, artefact, Article, Christie's, Comment, Comment is free, Culture, David Shariatmadari, Egyptian statue, Egyptian statue auction, Egyptian statue Christie's, Egyptian statue price, Egyptian statue sold, First thoughts, flogging statues, Marquis of Northampton, Museums, Northampton borough council, Northampton museum, sale of the statue of Sekhemka, Sekhemka, small museums, statue of Sekhemka, statues, UK art market, UK news, VAT art market, VAT for ART

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