Anny Shaw
Anny Shaw is a contributing art market editor at The Art Newspaper and author of Resist: Rebellion, Dissent & Protest in Art
Gagosian to close its vast Britannia Street gallery in London after two decades
The gallery is instead launching a new public platform for large-scale sculpture in October
Time to invest in the art market? New 'stock exchange for art' to launch at the Victoria & Albert Museum this month
Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer revealed as the first work to be listed on Artex, starting at around $55m
London dealer Alison Jacques to open new headquarters on illustrious Cork Street this autumn
She will open the three-storey, 6,000 sq ft space with shows by Sheila Hicks and Robert Mapplethorpe
Timothy Taylor takes Tribeca: dealer is latest to move gallery from Chelsea to hip New York neighbourhood
Tribeca has reached a critical mass of around 50 galleries
Pace gallery to show Picasso’s sketchbooks in New York for 50 year anniversary of artist’s death
Never seen by the public during his lifetime, they include studies for his most famous paintings such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Bonhams closes gender pay gap by 39%, but Sotheby’s and Christie’s lag behind
UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets
Global art market 'beginning to cool’, according to latest Art Basel/UBS report
Total sales grew just 3% in 2022, while China's zero-Covid policies saw UK overtake it as second-biggest market
‘Glad to see they are scared’: Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova added to Russia’s wanted list for criminals
A performance in which she burns an effigy of Vladimir Putin, and an NFT of a vagina-shaped Virgin Mary are thought to be behind new charges
From the ashes of Masterpiece London comes Treasure House Fair—who's taking part?
More than 40 galleries have thrown their weight behind the new venture, but only a handful of overseas dealers will participate
Banksy’s migrant rescue ship detained by Italian authorities
Activists say boat was seized after taking 180 rescued people to Lampedusa and has been impounded for 20 days for violating new Italian laws
New York court dismisses case over ownership of ‘world’s first NFT’ sold for $1.5m at Sotheby’s
Lawsuit is one of the first in the US to examine how blockchain technology affects the ownership of digital art
Are young collectors buying Old Masters? Dealers at Tefaf Maastricht bank on changing tastes
The sector could benefit from cross-over buyers influenced by fashion designers and institutions looking to diversify collections
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
Does the West really care about human rights and art washing?
As the art world continues to do business in authoritarian regions, some question its claim to being a force for universal good
Is the figuration boom over? Gagosian to launch major show of abstract artists across London galleries this summer
Curator Gary Garrels has been given “carte blanche” to include artists not represented by the gallery
‘No internet, hardly any art fairs—and no Venice Biennale parties’: Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo looks back on 30 years of collecting
Italian collector opens major exhibition of acquisitions at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Five artists to look out for at London's Collect contemporary craft fair
The annual event showcases makers working in jewellery and ceramics, textiles and glass
Christie's 20th and 21st century evening sales in London represent a 32% decrease from 2022
Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain
London exhibition supporting Wikileaks whistleblower Julian Assange draws contributions from Ai Weiwei and Vivienne Westwood's foundation
Physical copies of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables leaked by Assange will be on show
Peter Doig leaves international dealer Michael Werner after 23 years
British painter is choosing to work independently to ensure “transparency in all dealings”
Banksy stands up to domestic violence with new Valentine’s Day mural in coastal Kent town
The anonymous street artist has emblazoned a wall in Margate with an image of a woman disposing of her abusive husband
London artists face eviction from studios of ten years
Landlords have given the community of 25 artists and small businesses one week to leave
‘Post-Brexit post-Covid fightback for London’: Masterpiece founders launch new fair in place of cancelled event
The London Summer Art Fair will open in June with around half the dealers of Masterpiece
New accounts reveal Damien Hirst created and sold more than £8m-worth of art to benefit the NHS in 2020
Financial report also shows how the scope of his business changed over the course of the pandemic
Plunging arts exports, cancelled fairs and increased regulation: how Brexit is endangering the UK art market three years on
On the anniversary of the UK's departure from the European Union, dealers and politicians warn Britain is slipping behind its competitors as a cultural leader
The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world
The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?
Global demand for African art brings near-record year for South African auction house despite ‘much higher degrees of uncertainty’
Strauss & Co is launching a new sale format with the aim of fostering a more inclusive African art market
Egon Schiele painting to be restored with €25,000 grant from Tefaf art fair
Once owned by Jewish collectors in Vienna, the landscape was exported to the US on condition it was exhibited in the Austrian pavilion at the 1948 Venice Biennale
Another London fair cancelled: Art & Antiques Fair Olympia pulls summer event over ‘escalating costs’ and ‘lack of dealer commitment’
With Masterpiece also out of the picture, the UK capital's fair landscape looks very different this year
Are charity art auctions, not donations, the new model for offsetting taxes?
Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune