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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

The Art Newspaper

L-R: Brett Gorvy, Philip Hoffman, Ed Dolman, Patti Wong, Alex Dolman Courtesy of Emilio Madrid Four of the art market’s leading figures have joined forces to establish a new consultancy firm to manage top-level clients and their collections through what they say are unprecedented shifts in the trade. It’s certainly not going to go away.”

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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Sarasota Antique Buyers

We would be happy to set up a no-obligation consultation for you. At Sarasota Antique Buyers, we are the best place to learn the value of antiques, clocks , and sterling silver because we will give you a market analysis for all of your items. Do you want someone to buy your lecoultre clocks? Estate Jewelry. What about estate sales?

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UK Heritage Department feared ‘mass restitutions’ when Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland

The Art Newspaper

The Department of National Heritage was furious with John Major for failing to consult it over this “precedent to mass restitution”. She wrote: “Had we been consulted, we would have advised against return because of the likely fall-out, i.e. other countries seeing the return of the Stone as setting a precedent to mass restitution.

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What does a so-called ‘buyer’s market’ look like at Art Basel?

The Art Newspaper

Price reductions, negotiations and dealer “flexibility” are the order of the day Kabir Jhala 18 June 2025 Share An orange carton sculpture by Kimiyo Mishima sold for $40,000 at Blum gallery. Now is the time to buy—it is the best time I have ever seen,” says Philip Hoffman, the founder of the Fine Art Group consultants.

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Belgian council cancels Hew Locke commission that planned to ‘disrupt’ colonial statue

The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper understands that the residents of Ostend were consulted by the city council last year, prior to Locke’s piece being selected from 11 shortlisted artists. They say there was not enough consultation. “So Two years earlier, a sculpture of Leopold II in the city of Antwerp was set on fire, before authorities took it down.

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Three works by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill withdrawn from UK exhibition after consultation with survivors group

The Art Newspaper

The decision to not show the works, which are part of the museum’s collection, came after staff consulted a group of abuse survivors. A sculpture on the front of BBC Broadcasting House in London, depicting Prospero and Ariel, has been vandalised twice—in 2022 and 2023.