25 h. ago Cutlery designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh sells for more than £175,000

The cutlery sold for nearly six times its estimate.

Economics

27 h. ago Charlie Rennie Mackintosh painting of French village fetches £150,000 at auction

The watercolour, titled Bouleternere, was painted in 1925 with sparing use of colour and depicts the hillside town.

Economics

29 h. ago The EV graveyard is cleared! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road are collected

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

29 h. ago EV graveyard for sale! Abandoned new electric cars worth £275k dumped on Nottingham road will be sold at auction

The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.

Economics

3 d. ago Four arrested for selling obscene AI images in first crackdown of its kind

Suspects sold posters with obscene images on internet auction sites last year

Events

7 d. ago Charles Rennie Mackintosh watercolour of French village to be sold at auction

Bouleternere was painted in 1925, just three years before the designer’s death, and is valued at £100,000-£150,000.

Politics

8 d. ago ‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms

As wealth in India has grown, so has the number of arts patrons championing both India’s 20th century modern masters and the next generationFor over seven decades, the masterpiece had gathered dust as it hung in the corridors of a Norwegian hospital. But last month, the monumental 13-panel 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) – one of the most significant pieces of modern south Asian art – sold for a record-breaking $13.7m in New York.The auction of the painting sent ripples through the art world. It was not only the highest price ever paid for a painting by Maqbool Fida Husain, one of India’s most celebrated modern artists, but it was the highest ever paid for any piece of modern Indian art at auction – going for four times the estimated price. It also happened to be the most expensive artwork auctioned so far in 2025. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK

The Martin D-18E, played at renowned performance five months before singer’s suicide, sold for £4.8m in 2020The world’s most expensive guitar, which Kurt Cobain played in one of Nirvana’s most acclaimed performances – the MTV Unplugged in New York show – is to be displayed in the UK for the first time.The Royal College of Music in London has been loaned the Martin D-18E by its owner, Peter Freedman (the chair of Røde microphones), who bought the guitar for $6m (£4.8m) in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. Continue reading...

Culture

2 w. ago OJ Simpson’s Bible sold at auction after Kim Kardashian’s bid was rejected

The Skims founder initially bid $15,000 for the bible, which hade an inscription from her late father

Politics

3 w. ago Rare coin found by metal detectorist in farmers field sells for £4,700

The coin is nearly 2,000 years old

Economics

3 w. ago Bronze Age Corsican statue sold at auction in London is a ‘fake’, French cultural authorities claim

Bronze Age Corsican statue sold at auction in London is a ‘fake’, French cultural authorities claim  Art Newspaper

Culture

3 w. ago Elon Musk flogs Twitter's old bird logo as mystery buyer stumps up huge amount

The 12ft iconic Twitter logo has sold for nearly $35,000 dollars – £27,132 – at auction, but the buyer has remained a mystery as the auction house kept it under wraps

Technology

4 w. ago Original body model of ET expected to fetch up to $1m at Sotheby’s

Daughter of Oscar-winning special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi hopes item will ‘continue to inspire’It was last seen standing at the entrance to a spaceship with a potted plant of chrysanthemums, its chest glowing bright red as it stared down at the tearful young boy on the ground below.Now, the original body model of ET, the Extra-Terrestial, is expected to fetch up to $1m (£700,000) when it is sold at Sotheby’s auction house at in April. Continue reading...

Politics

last month Why this ‘one in a billion’ egg from Devon sold for £420 at auction

The rare discovery has raised hundreds of pounds for charity

Economics

last month Rare perfectly round egg found on Devon farm sells at auction

The rare discovery has raised hundreds of pounds for charity

Politics