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Anny Shaw
Anny Shaw is a contributing art market editor at The Art Newspaper and author of Resist: Rebellion, Dissent & Protest in Art
Damien Hirst laid off 63 people last autumn while claiming £15m in government Covid-19 loans
Job cuts came after major retrospective in Beijing was cancelled due to the pandemic
Follow the money: Christie's bets on Hong Kong with vast new headquarters as clients in Asia spend over $1bn so far this year
Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions
Can auctions save the earth? Christie's to fundraise for environmental charity by selling works by Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson
The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Christina Quarles's fragmented figures to Igshaan Adams's sparkling dust clouds
Lucian Freud's portrait of David Hockney fetches £14.9m in strong hybrid sales at Sotheby’s in London
Asian bidders and British art boosted figures to make auction house's highest summer total since 2018
Abstract art, mid-century furniture and contemporary design all under one roof at new London gallery
LAMB opens this week in the Georgian townhouse formerly occupied by Bernard Shapero rare books
Damien Hirst secures £15m in government Covid-19 loans despite owing more than £100m to his parent company in Jersey
The companies that make Hirst’s art and manage his £183m collection are owned by the offshore parent Science
It’s coming home: Art gallery to open in the grounds of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
New space is run by the publishers of OOF, a magazine which marries art and football
After the South London Gallery’s ‘most challenging year ever’, Christina Quarles paintings and drawings go on show
Solo exhibition is the Los Angeles-based artist’s first in a London institution
‘For every Malcolm, you need a Martin’: England rugby player Maro Itoje presents exhibition on Black histories missing from UK curriculum
Sports star says he aims to ‘show a fuller picture’ of African history with London gallery show
Simon Lee Gallery announces worldwide representation of Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce
Boyce says bringing people together for her Venice commission has been like a “gargantuan puzzle”
Not laughing now: Banksy loses second trademark case over famous monkey image
Ruling slams British street artist for “sham efforts” in trying to mislead the European Union Intellectual Property Office
New kids in the Enclave: how Deptford became south London's hottest gallery hub
Peckham move over, there's a new artistic Mecca in town
Palestinian artist films police crackdown in Israeli city of Haifa
Calls are growing for the boycott of Israeli cultural institutions as protests erupt over Israeli attacks on Gaza and the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah
Access denied: British auction house executives refused US visas to travel for marquee New York sales week
But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation to unveil new maternity and paediatric hospital in Senegal
German architect has designed the €2m building which takes elements from the Bauhaus couple’s work
White Cube announces exclusive worldwide representation of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi
British gallery will work in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum in New York
Trump protest work recovered by FBI four years after being stolen by white supremacists
He Will Not Divide Us was subjected to multiple attacks from far-right extremists before being snatched in a raid in Tennessee in 2017
Basquiat NFT withdrawn from auction after artist’s estate intervenes
“No licence or rights were convened to the seller,” estate says
Basquiat drawing to be auctioned as an NFT—and winning bidder will be given the option to destroy the original
Drawing is being sold in an auction sponsored by the firm behind David Bowie’s online bank
‘Still much work to be done’: artists and US museums react to Derek Chauvin conviction in George Floyd murder trial
Former police officer faces up 40 years in prison, but systemic racism must now be addressed, says San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sotheby’s launches first auction dedicated to women artists—but why do we still need a segregated sale in 2021?
Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth
Phillips starts 2021 sales with a 17% leg up on last year
Despite the “headwinds” of Covid-19 and an extended UK lockdown, the firm raised £24.8m in its three-city livestreamed auction
Lockdown easing: the best gallery shows to see in London right now
Eerie wooden cabins, rural quiltmakers and dismembered, tentacular dolls are among our highlights from the city's commercial exhibitions
Christie’s to auction a slice of NFT history for $9m this May
Larva Labs created 10,000 CryptoPunks three years ago—and gave away most of them
Sorry to burst your bubble: NFT prices slump 70%
Sales for NFTs linked to art dropped from $16.7m to $12.5m—but experts say it's not a permanent dip
NFT breakthrough: Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin creates 99% energy efficient blockchain—and Damien Hirst is its first artist
Hirst launches the Palm platform with a drop of 10,000 works on paper linked to NFTs that “explore the boundaries of art and currency”
First London Gallery Weekend to feature a whopping 87 galleries including David Zwirner, Gagosian and Sadie Coles
Citywide event launching in June will focus on three different areas of the UK capital
Art Basel/UBS report: global art market shrinks by almost a quarter to $50.1bn during Covid-19 crisis
Online sales, a growing pool of billionaires and reduced overheads all helped sustain the trade when physical art fairs and auctions all but disappeared
Who is Beeple? The art world disruptor at the heart of the NFT boom
From concert designer to sell-out artist, we talk to Mike Winkelmann about making millions and selling with Christie's