Anny Shaw

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

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Ai Weiwei visits Greek island of Lesbos to document the plight of refugees

Chinese artist and activist has been sharing photographs and videos on social media

London’s ICA to stay put in historic Nash House

Director Gregor Muir hopes to revamp spaces

Nancy Spector appointed deputy director and chief curator of Brooklyn Museum

She served at the Guggenheim Museum for almost 30 years, and says she thought she'd never leave

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Benjamin Genocchio, editor-in-chief of Artnet News, appointed executive director of Armory Show

A change in date for the New York fair might be on the cards under new directorship

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Margaret Thatcher collection snapped up at Christie’s auction

Former prime minister’s belongings attract bidders from 41 countries

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Artistic director of Also Known As Africa resigns over decision to cancel

Timothée Chaillou not consulted over postponement of new Paris art fair

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Regional UK museums given boost to acquire works by leading contemporary British artists

Contemporary Art Society and Sfumato Foundation launch Great Works scheme to combat London bias

Unusual suspects: New London gallery focuses on lesser-known Modern Italian artists

Angelo Savelli launches solo show programme at M&L Fine Art—the artist’s first exhibition in the UK

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Pussy Riot among artists behind new charity building shelters in Calais for refugees

Refugee Response Foundation, founded by artist duo The Connor Brothers, is also due to help with legal and living costs

London’s winter Russian art sales have lukewarm results

Auction totals continue dropping but the number of lots sold go up

Susan Philipsz: Eavesdropping on the Eisler files

The Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist finds inspiration in the FBI files of the communist composer who spent the 1940s in Hollywood and the Cold War in East Berlin

British art dealer Leslie Waddington dies at 81

A loyal champion of British painters, he helped bring post-war American art to London

Peckham rejects plan to turn car park into artists’ studios

Dismay that council’s decision will stop Bold Tendencies building on its success in south London

Auction of German dealing dynasty’s collection disappoints

Sotheby’s sale of Konrad Bernheimer’s family property, once looted by the Nazis, failed to meet expectations

Tracey Emin gets first solo show in Greater China

Lehmann Maupin and White Cube will host joint exhibition in March

New African art and design fair in Paris cancelled in wake of terror attacks

Also Known as Africa postponed to 2016 amid heightened security and a bleak economic outlook

Black British artists to be written into art history

Sonia Boyce to cre ate database of works by artists of African and Asian descent held in UK public collections

Ukrainian artist recreates sculptures destroyed by pro-Russian separatists

Saatchi gallery exhibition features 30 artists from the UK and Ukraine shortlisted for new competition

UK dealers donate major contemporary works to Whitworth gallery in Manchester

Ivor Braka and Thomas Dane hope gift will encourage greater support for culture in the regions

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Norwegian artist to create new work two years after paintings removed over associations with Anders Breivik massacre

Murals by Vanessa Baird, who won the Lorck Shive prize last week, will be installed in Oslo government building

Sotheby's offers voluntary redundancies to cut costs

Chief executive Tad Smith hopes to keep “excellent, less-tenured” staff who want to change the worlds of art, jewellery, cars and wine

Lawnews

Monaco appeals court rejects Swiss freeport king’s bid to quash fraud case

Criminal complaint filed by family trust associated with Dmitry Rybolovlev against Yves Bouvier can now go ahead

John Akomfrah’s Venice Biennale hit film to get UK premiere in January

Vertigo Sea will debut at the Arnolfini in Bristol before touring to Margate and Manchester

London dealer partners with South African gallery in Chelsea

John Martin and Everard Read galleries opened Circa London this week

Collection built by Dukes of Portland to go on show in new Nottingham gallery

First exhibition will include a rarely seen sketch by Michelangelo and miniature portraits selected by Peter Blake

Experts question the authenticity of a group of works by Jackson Pollock

Tests suggests pigment used in some of the paintings not commercially available before artist’s death in 1956

Council rejects bold plan to create 800 artists’ studios in south London

Art project that transformed Peckham car park faces uncertain future