Anny Shaw

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

Ai Weiwei's first feature-length film to focus on refugees

Chinese artist documents humanitarian crisis from Lesbos to Lebanon

Rich list 2016: fortunes drop for several British-based art collectors

Lakshmi Mittal and Roman Abramovich have slipped down the Sunday Times ranking

Lawnews

Graffiti artist to settle legal case against Moschino

Joseph Tierney had accused Italian fashion house and its creative director of using his work in clothing designs, including a dress worn by Katy Perry to Met gala

Brussels stakes its claim as European hotspot for contemporary art

Four art fairs opened in the Belgian city this week, including newcomer Independent Brussels and longstanding Art Brussels

Online art market defies global slowdown with 24% growth last year

Auction houses continue to expand web platforms but dealers are slower to adapt, according to annual Hiscox report

Roger Hiorns hopes to see lots of planes buried around the world

UK artist says jetliners could be interred in the US, South Africa and the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea

Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation launches first online database for Iraqi artists

Website will provide a platform for contemporary artists to show—and possibly sell—works

Performa teams up with contemporary African art fair in New York

1:54 NY features new performance section organised by curator Adrienne Edwards

Theaster Gates wins Germany’s Kurt Schwitters Prize

The award includes an exhibition for the Chicago artist at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover in late 2017

Lawnews

Swiss authorities reportedly seize Modigliani painting after Panama Papers revelation

Leaked documents have sparked Geneva probe into $25m canvas stolen by Nazis

Prestigious Vincent Award suspended after legal row between artist Danh Vo and collector Bert Kreuk

Two artists had pulled out of the prize, with one citing the dispute as a reason

Ai Weiwei’s first show in Greece will aid refugees

Charities will receive percentage of exhibition takings at Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

Lawnews

Wikimedia Sweden found guilty of violating copyright with database of images of public art

Decision by Supreme Court could have implications for other jurisdictions, legal experts say

Lawnews

Ibrahim Mahama countersues art dealers Stefan Simchowitz and Jonathan Ellis King

In response to lawsuit filed because he would not authenticate 300-piece series, Ghanaian artist argues they “mutilated” his jute sack work and sold parts without authorisation

Ghana gains first commercial gallery for contemporary art

Institutional boost for country’s rising art scene, but still only a handful of local collectors

Springtime in Paris sees four art fairs open this week

Art Paris Art Fair gives pride of place to female artists, while PAD celebrates its 20th anniversary

Van Gogh’s The Night Café to stay at Yale after US Supreme Court rejects appeal

Decision puts to rest lengthy legal battle started by Pierre Konowaloff in 2008

German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin

Renovated Czech cultural centre in Mitte will house temporary exhibitions

Hong Kong pop-up show provides a speedy guide to hacking

Chinese artists join Simon Denny in K11-Serpentine show organised by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Museums and public galleries in Brussels in lockdown in wake of terrorist attacks

Police evacuate park near royal palace after abandoned suitcase found

J. Paul Getty Trust and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to jointly develop data technologies

Collaboration will build data gathering, processing and visualisation tools to preserve world’s cultural heritage

Fairsnews

Tracey Emin: ‘I’m looking for a soul mate, nothing else will do’

As her solo show opens in Hong Kong, the British artist tells us about marrying a stone in France

Museums seek help as censorship grows in Turkey

Research group to publish guide for artists and museums facing legal action

Martin Parr shows Britain in all its 'stiff upper-lipped, jubilant glory'

Barbican exhibition presents the country through the lenses of 23 photographers from abroad

Phillips scotches speculation of market retreat from Asia with senior Hong Kong appointment

Jonathan Crockett will become head of 20th-century and contemporary art and deputy chairman, Asia

Francis Alÿs films children’s games in refugee camps in northern Iraq

Belgian-born, Mexico City-based artist was on research trip to the region with the Ruya Foundation

Prize-winning British author and art historian Anita Brookner dies aged 87

She was the first woman to hold the Slade professorship of fine art at Cambridge University and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Who's afraid of Robert Mapplethorpe?

As a major exhibition on the New York photographer opens at Lacma and the Getty Museum, the question of what kind of work museums can show rumbles on