Anny Shaw

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

Bonhams fires eight in Hong Kong including deputy chairman for Asia, Magnus Renfrew

The former Art Basel Hong Kong director says he was 'surprised and disappointed' by the decision

Bubble hasn’t burst, but it is deflating fast

Art market puts a positive spin on a downbeat London fortnight

First cultural destruction trial opens at The Hague’s International Criminal Court

Former teacher Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is accused of alleged war crimes for ordering the razing of mausoleums in Timbuktu

Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival

Racial and gender inequality come under scrutiny in the art world

Arts Council England launches study asking artists to share the challenges and barriers they face in their careers

Fashion designer Erdem collaborates with Sotheby’s on first ‘curated’ sale in London

Auction house launches new mid-season sale aimed at first-time collectors

David Hockney to get retrospective at Tate Britain next year

Exhibition comes five years after triumphant Royal Academy show in 2012

Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows

The UK artist will unveil her new film project, including submissions from the public, at the House festival in Brighton

Sex Pistols photographer accuses artist Elizabeth Peyton of copyright infringement

Dennis Morris is considering legal action over painting removed from Sotheby’s day sale last week

Lawnews

American Airlines and seven others sued over damage to Lucio Fontana sculpture

Concetto Spaziale was being shipped from France to the Armory Show in New York last year

A museum of many firsts in Muscat spans two million years of Omani history

Most of the 7,000 objects in the eclectic collection have never been shown, from weaponry and manuscripts to life-size replicas of ships and castle models

Ai Weiwei wraps Berlin landmark in lifejackets in memory of drowned refugees

Mayor of Lesbos donated 14,000 vests to the Chinese artist and activist who created installation outside city’s Konzerthaus

Middle market shines through during week of uncertainty at London auctions

Cautious estimates at Bonhams and Christie’s produce solid results in cooling market

London auctions signal the end of boom years for post-war and contemporary art

Phillips and Sotheby’s sales come in short of estimates—but those in the trade call it a healthy correction

Scratch videos, film and sound works to explode across Sheffield this spring

Art festival takes place in electricity substations, defunct pubs and a former funeral parlour

El Anatsui unveils new bottle-top works in London

Ghanaian artist is also creating an installation for the Marrakesh Biennale this month

Greek island donates 14,000 refugee lifejackets to Ai Weiwei

Chinese artist and activist to create work to draw attention to people smuggling

Trove of antiquities found in secret Swiss store—and they are linked to a disgraced British art dealer

Objects widely thought to be connected to Robin Symes will be unveiled in Rome this week

ARCHIVE Mapplethorpe’s images retain power to disturb

Los Angeles shows will include provocative portraits but not images of children

Tania Bruguera to take up residence at South London Gallery?

Project is organised with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

Artistic freedom comes under attack

Pressure to self-censor grows in the West as authorities clamp down across the Middle East

A trifecta of shows on Felix Gonzalez-Torres to open in London, New York and Milan

Hauser & Wirth, Andrea Rosen and Massimo de Carlo collaborate to host simultaneous exhibitions

Artnews

Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law

Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country

Artnews

Art world heads back to school as Frieze Academy launches

Lectures and courses are designed to further careers of arts professionals

Contemporary art market cools, but Modern sector heats up at Christie’s in 2015

Middle market helps deliver auction house’s second highest results in 250-year history

Bonhams sale aims to redress gender inequality in the art world

Auction is latest in a raft of exhibitions and sales to promote women artists

Lords put pressure on UK government to sign Hague Convention this year

Move could allow cultural heritage experts to set up Blue Shield headquarters in London

More than a third of dealers in London Art Fair survey say rising rents pose biggest threat to UK market

But 85% say market for Modern British and contemporary art will remain as strong or fare better in 2016