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LONDON — Confidence in the contemporary art market has dropped 40 per cent over the past six months, according to a survey by ArtTactic, a London-based research company. The biannual survey, based on the responses of 155 buyers of contemporary art, mostly international private collectors… Read full story

An ornately carved crystal jug auctioned off in the U.K. as a 19th century French claret jug may in fact be a rare 11th century Islamic artifact. The jug, estimated to be worth about $400 by Lawrences Auctioneers in southwest Britain, sold last Thursday for $440,000, more than 1,000 times its list price… Read full … Read more

Archeologists and art experts are concerned about a wave of forgeries that have appeared on the art market. The fakes are meeting the growing demand for collectable art from the global jet set, but even the musuems are being fooled. The Flora in Berlin’s Bode Musuem. A da Vinci masterpiece or 19th century fake? The … Read more

Visitors to Louis Tussauds House of Wax are unlikely to forget the experience – no matter how hard they try. For the museum in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, has garnered a unique reputation for creating the worst waxworks in Britain, if not the world. […] The disembodied heads will be going under the hammer on February … Read more

Colin Gleadell on provincial salerooms If you thought a country saleroom was just a sleepy old place content to knock out goods and chattels for almost any price, the odds are that you’d be wrong. As the sleepier ones go out of business, Britain’s liveliest provincial auctioneers are busy building brands and shaping up aggressively … Read more