Anny Shaw

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

‘British exports still desirable’: UK artist Jenny Saville smashes record at Sotheby’s

Shanghai’s Long Museum buys Sensation work as Asian and US collectors search for a bargain post-Brexit

Phillips weathers the storm in first London auction since Brexit

Strong bidding from US and Asia helps shore up 20th-century and contemporary sale

George Lucas abandons plans to build a museum in Chicago after two-year legal battle

Star Wars creator is now looking to California for a space to house his art collection and memorabilia

Contemporary Art Society and Frieze London launch acquisition fund for UK regional museums

First recipient, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, to spend £50,000 on work addressing migration crisis

Sotheby’s to launch Modern and contemporary African art sales in London in 2017

Auction house has hired Hannah O’Leary, formerly of Bonhams, to head up new department

Artsy partners with Phillips and Koller auction houses on live bidding

New technology allows collectors to take part in sales in real time

Paint with the polar bears: Norwegian government launches art foundation and residency on Svalbard

As coal-mining industry faces collapse on the remote Arctic archipelago, attention is shifting towards culture

Fairsnews

How artists and museums are addressing the refugee crisis

Works at Art Basel and beyond aim to stir the conscience and raise funds in aid of the “biggest challenge of our time”

Oscar Tuazon goes off-grid in Basel

For Art Basel, the artist has used cutting-edge technology to update hippie-chic, eco-friendly house

Latin American artists triumph at South London Gallery

Gallery has partnered with New York’s Guggenheim on survey of the region

Arte povera founder Michelangelo Pistoletto is latest artist to show at Blenheim Palace

Exhibition will feature more than 40 works and is billed as the artist’s most comprehensive in the UK to date

Drawing from the Western Front: pastel of First World War soldiers comes to market after 100 years

Work was bought at C.R.W. Nevinson 1916 exhibition, attended by Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw

Gilbert & George to convert East End house into non-profit gallery

Contemporary art foundation would host two exhibitions a year and is expected to bring 200 visitors a week

Christie’s to sell Brian Sewell’s ‘much loved’ art

The late critic was an expert in the auction house’s Old Masters department

Court of Appeal upholds ruling that Henry Moore’s ‘Old Flo’ belongs to east London

Sculpture could be returned by the end of the year—providing a secure site is found

Newly discovered James Ensor painting makes €1m at Vienna auction

Dorotheum sees strong start to the year with Modern and Old Master sales

Artists and museums find ways to help refugees feel welcome

Plight of thousands fleeing war zones inspires creative humanitarian responses

Native American leaders and US officials protest against Paris auction of artefacts

Chair of Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian calls on owners of disputed objects to return them

Berlin street art museum gets under way

Culture minister pronounces ‘insane’ Urban Nation project perfect for Berlin

Member of Ai Weiwei’s studio questioned by police during evacuation of Idomeni camp

Lu Hengzhong has been filming at the refugee camp in Greece for past 12 weeks

Fairsnews

Non-profits and unconventional displays shine at Art16

Streamlined fair offers collectors art priced between £20 and £1m

Ai Weiwei unveils new works highlighting plight of refugees

Chinese artist's show at Cycladic Museum of Art in Athens includes a flag depicting drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi

Helsinki embraces museum building ‘boom’

City Museum is the latest institution to get an upgrade in the Finnish capital, but will the Guggenheim follow?

Cheyenne Westphal to take up new role as chairman of Phillips

Auction specialist left her position as head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s last month

Members of Egyptian performance group arrested for mocking president

Performers face charges of inciting protests and insulting state institutions

Stefan Simchowitz settles bitter legal case with Ibrahim Mahama

Los Angeles agent and Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King sued artist for declaring jute sack works were not authentic

Martin Creed brings ‘peace memorial’ to the shores of New York this week

British artist installs huge rotating neon—and his next plan is to turn the Armory inside out

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel makes last-ditch effort to save George Lucas museum

Star Wars creator could see plans thwarted by case brought by local non-profit Friends of the Parks

Iranian artist Atena Farghadani freed after more than a year in prison

Cartoonist had originally been sentenced to 12 years and nine months for criticising Iranian government

Barbara Hepworth’s former school to auction two of her sculptures at Sotheby's

Insurance and security costs of keeping works are partly to blame for sale