Anny Shaw

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

Sadie Coles opens double-height 'fish tank' gallery in Mayfair

Venue is the London dealer’s third in the UK capital

Emdash Award relaunches to focus exclusively on performance

Austrian collector previously supported Frieze Projects with her prize

Turner Prize-nominated collective, Assemble, plans to help convert Peckham car park into artists’ studios

Proposal is one of three being considered by Southwark Council in south London next week

Iron Lady’s handbags go under the hammer

Christie’s to sell Margaret Thatcher’s belongings after V&A turns them down

Women and Italians first: the surprise results of the London auctions

Market turns on its head as buyers show less interest in the usual contemporary, blue-chip names

Theaster Gates brings new life to bombed-out Bristol church

Performances from poetry readings to gospel singing will run 24/7 for the Chicago-artist’s first public art project in the UK

Gilbert and George unveil their ten commandments

New banner works began as a performance, while artists plan to record 3,500 “fuckosophies” on vinyl

European artists free to paint the town red (and yellow and orange)

European Union climbs down over plans to ban cadmium paint pigment

London mayor calls for new artists’ studios and cultural spaces

Plea comes as Boris Johnson publishes guidance for councils, planners and developers on protecting arts venues

Sotheby’s holds first online-only auction in partnership with Artsy

Most works, by emerging and established artists, are valued at less than $50,000

First museum exhibition in Greece for Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz

Show comes as publication date for his catalogue raisonné is announced for next autumn

Iwan and Manuela Wirth top ArtReview’s Power 100 list

They are only the second dealers to take the number one spot in 14 years

Photo collection dedicated to women to be sold in Paris

Italian fashion photographer Amedeo Turello has amassed 200 images over more than 20 years

Dispute over Venetian painting seized by Vichy regime resolved after more than 70 years

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

Modern Italian art scales new heights at Christie’s London

While female painters prove Georg Baselitz wrong in the contemporary sale

Sunny side up: Fontana's egg helps Modern Italian works outshine contemporary art at Sotheby’s London

Buyers look to diversify their collections with paintings by post-war artists

Is Catford the next Peckham?

Bow Arts charity has won the tender to create workspaces for between 35 and 60 emerging artists in southeast London

Lucian Freud etchings fetch £1m at Phillips London

Two prints of his zaftig muse Sue Tilley, a rare self-portrait, and a tender sketch of Eli the whippet given as a Christmas gift to his assistant were among the 30 works sold

Where have all the artists in central London gone?

Property price rises and rapid redevelopment in the capital are forcing artists to seek studio space in the suburbs and beyond.

Louis XV desk smashes its auction estimate at Lambert collection sale

Writing table, which once belonged to Baron Gustave de Rothschild, is a star lot at Christie’s

Richard Prince Instagram portrait leaps in value at Phillips

Appropriated selfie part of white-glove sale, which saw new record for Mark Bradford

Works of art to be tagged with DNA in bid to fight forgeries

Eric Fischl among the artists to support authentication system launched in London this week

Curator's guided tour of Frieze Sculpture Park

Clare Lilley, the curator of the Frieze Sculpture Park, knows the English Garden of Regent’s Park like the back of her hand. This is the fourth time the director of programme for Yorkshire Sculpture Park has selected the works that go on display just outside the Frieze London tent

Frieze sculpture show extended into New Year

Mayor of London backs decision to keep works on display

Back of Blue Period painting offers glimpse of ‘the Picasso behind Picasso’

La Gommeuse is being sold at Sotheby’s New York with a second, irreverent work on the reverse

Gagosian opens third, and largest, gallery in London

New Mayfair space is part of cultural revival of the area

Is it an auction house, a gallery or a museum?

Phillips to host non-selling Barbara Hepworth show in London next summer, with works on loan from Wakefield and private collections

London's Art16 fair names new director

Nathan Clements-Gillespie appointed following former head Kate Bryan's surprise exit after just ten months