Anny Shaw

Anny Shaw is a contributing art market editor at The Art Newspaper and author of Resist: Rebellion, Dissent & Protest in Art

Art marketanalysis

Barely worth its weight in gold: can art still be considered an asset class?

As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is

Stephen Friedman to close New York gallery, two years after opening the Tribeca space

The decision is framed as a “strategic evolution for the gallery as it consolidates its operations in London”

Hauser & Wirth charged with breaching UK’s Russia sanctions

The UK gallery is being prosecuted for allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022

The British artist David Shrigley wants £1m for piles of old rope

The artist, whose practice is underpinned by humour, has a poke at the art market with his new London exhibition

Film-maker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works

Larry Gagosian is revisiting his love for Rubens—bringing a $7m painting to Art Basel Paris

The dealer is showing a depiction of the Christian holy family at his fair booth, three decades after he hosted a show on the Old Master in New York

Shifting the dial: new fair Echo Soho celebrates women-run galleries

The inaugural edition, taking place in Soho Revue's residency space, features 12 gallerists

Embracing independence: meet the artists giving galleries a swerve

A growing number of emerging and mid-tier artists are building their own networks, and using new channels to sell directly to collectors

In the frame: photography comes to the fore at Frieze London and beyond

A medium once marginalised in the art world finds new momentum at the fair and in exhibitions across the capital

Almine Rech reopens in London with downsized gallery

The new venue is around a quarter of the size of Rech’s former London gallery, which closed in August

Art marketanalysis

How Tate's Emily Kam Kngwarray show is revealing the fraught market dynamics of Aboriginal art

Kngwarray's late but dazzling career changed perceptions of Aboriginal art. The curators of her retrospective explore how a sudden demand for her work reflects “complex histories and power dynamics in Australia”

Marina Abramović to have historic solo exhibition at Venice’s Galleria dell’Accademia in 2026

She will be the first living woman artist to have a major show at the institution since it opened in 1817

Art marketanalysis

Thaddaeus Ropac is betting on Milan—will it pay off?

The dealer has opened a gallery in the northern Italian city, which is welcoming an influx of new money and favourable tax structures for art

Near Naples, an ancient town is turned contemporary art hub for roving exhibition Panorama

The fifth edition of Panorama, held this month in Pozzuoli, was organised by a consortium of Italy's leading commercial galleries and featured artists from Simone Fattal to William Kentridge

Jasleen Kaur, Michael Rakowitz, Jeremy Deller and Massive Attack among 77 creatives to join Gaza fundraiser poster campaign

The posters, being sold as part of a book, are “a tribute to Palestinian resilience and a tool for global solidarity”

Despite red tape from US sanctions, Tehran-based gallery champions Iranian art at The Armory Show

Owner of O Gallery says her participation affirms ‘importance of cultural dialogue at a time when exchange across borders is increasingly fraught’

Musicinterview

‘It was absolutely terrifying’: Thom Yorke on his long journey back to becoming a visual artist

The Radiohead frontman and his long-time collaborator Stanley Donwood give an exclusive interview ahead of their first museum show opening this week

Andres Serrano proposes Donald Trump mausoleum for US pavilion at the Venice Biennale

American artist plans to install a multi-media portrait of the president for the 2026 exhibition—but question marks still hang over the application process

A hundred years on, Cork Street is the beating heart of London’s art scene once more

More than a dozen galleries on the storied Mayfair thoroughfare are celebrating its history with a group exhibition

A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

The skeleton, which was displayed at Frieze Masters in 2023, has been found to belong to a new species

Glastonbury is over—but what might it look like in the future? Artists are proposing a sustainable model

At the Shangri-La stage this year, works of art were replaced by plants that will be cultivated on a plot of land near the festival site

‘We are sleepwalking into an intolerable state of affairs’: Mark Wallinger unveils anti-fascist work at Glastonbury Festival

Turner Prize winner's maze installation is part of a group show that takes aim at anti-immigrant rhetoric and rising authoritarianism

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

Ed Dolman, Brett Gorvy, Patti Wong and Phillip Hoffman have formed a management firm to advise top-level clients as industry enters new era

Art marketfeature

‘A true champion of artists’: Victoria Miro's artists celebrate gallery's 40th anniversary

Grayson Perry, Celia Paul and more discuss the gallerist's impact on their careers

Street artanalysis

Is Banksy getting personal? New lighthouse mural prompts speculation over its philosophical meaning

In his latest work, the street artist refers to himself in the first person for the first time in a public mural

Ten artists accuse Arusha Gallery of non-payment of nearly half a million pounds

The London space, which is planning to open a wellness centre in King Charles’s former Welsh home, says it has been "working exceptionally hard through a crisis" relating to a “performance drop off" and the death of the gallery's co-owner

Top Phillips rainmakers Cheyenne Westphal and Jean-Paul Engelen to leave auction house

Westphal is to set up her own business working directly with collectors and artists while Engelen will join Aquavella Galleries

Art marketfeature

‘A new lease of life’: London’s Annely Juda Fine Art looks to the future with Mayfair move

The gallery plans to take on more young and emerging artists as David Juda hands the baton to the next generation

Folk is having a revival—in the art world too

The Neo Ancients festival in the small Gloucestershire town of Stroud featured artists whose works have a more "pastoral" approach towards art production

Art marketanalysis

Older women artists go it alone as new report reveals how the traditional art world is failing them

Meanwhile their younger counterparts struggle more acutely with living costs