Anny Shaw

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

Royal College of Art suspends first year of course due to staff shortage

Closure is latest upset for college criticised by some for being too “business-like”

Dia abandons previous plans for new building in Chelsea

In an exclusive interview, Jessica Morgan tells us how she aims to use the foundation’s existing Manhattan real estate and bring “equilibrium” to all of the institution's spaces

‘No intervention’ needed to protect Spiral Jetty from drought

Robert Smithson would have approved of environmental changes, say guardians of the site

Moscow gallery closes weeks after LGBT show is shut down by police

The founder of Red Square Gallery blames a lack of funding and the clampdown on freedom of speech

Lawnews

Banksy mural due to go back on display in Folkestone by the end of the year

Dealer who tried to sell the work says it was a “biting rebuke” of the town’s triennial

Cult all-female show revisited after 30 years

Sprüth Magers looks back at Eau de Cologne exhibitions, as “question of power has not really changed”

Madrid foundation to open exhibition space in Barcelona

Fundación Mapfre will inaugurate new branch with post-Impressionist show organised with Musée d’Orsay

Comfort blankets: White Cube show examines the politics of quilts and tapestries

New works by contemporary artists will hang alongside textiles by Gee's Bend and Amish women

Futile in the face of so much suffering: Anny Shaw on the Istanbul Biennial

The exhibition opened amid political and humanitarian crises

Shepard Fairey creates new portraits for rock and roll show at Sotheby’s

London auction house will also sell photographs of famous musicians from Elvis to Mick Jagger and Madonna

Istanbul Biennial commemorates Armenian genocide

Exhibition opens amid rising political tensions in Turkey

Five hundred years of printmaking comes to New York in November

Print fair offers works by blue-chip artists for a fraction of the price of their paintings

Luciano Benetton’s collection presents a united view of the world’s cultures

But Venice exhibition is also full of political unrest and upheaval

Leading artists donated works in last-minute bid to help save Kids Company charity

Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin pledged support to charity, which numbered Damien Hirst among long-standing donors

Dashed hopes of the Arab Spring: Ibrahim El-Salahi creates new work inspired by protests

Drawings by the Sudanese artist will be shown in full for the first time in Istanbul this month charting an arc from hope to violence

Lawnews

Will artist royalty rights go global?

Some say an international treaty will be fairer for all, others that it will mainly benefit the famous and dead

Murakami organises Japanese ceramics exhibition in Los Angeles

Blum & Poe show features works by three ceramicists who experiment with ancient techniques

Lawnews

Swiss ‘freeport king’s’ assets worth $500m unfrozen by Singapore court

Yves Bouvier denies Russian billionaire’s claim that he overcharged for $1bn-worth of art

Congolese artist who died of malaria to have solo show at London art fair

Kiripi Katembo’s images of Kinshasa, including several that have never been seen before, will come to 1:54 in October

Can artists still afford to work in London?

Frieze talk will look at the ways artists are adapting to rising costs and redevelopment in the capital

Danh Vo and Isabella Bortolozzi part ways amid Bert Kreuk legal case

The artist has instructed a new legal team separately to his former dealer as appeal is lodged in The Hague

Hamptons gallery show remembers overlooked Abstract Expressionist Anna Walinska

As well as becoming a well-known portrait painter, she also founded the Guild Art Gallery in Manhattan

Queen Nefertiti’s burial chamber could lie behind King Tutankhamun’s tomb

British archaeologist discovers evidence of hidden passages in pharaoh’s chamber

London artist’s ‘living sculpture’ studio to close permanently next year

Flat Time House Institute failed to raise £1m to buy John Latham’s home

London dealer puts the fun back into fairs

Steve Lazarides plans to open a temporary fairground—complete with rides, music, street food and, of course, art—next to the O2 arena

Nearly half a million visitors turned out for V&A’s McQueen blockbuster

The “unpredictable, dramatic and spectacular” exhibition drew crowds and celebrities during its extended run in London

British Museum bolsters its collection with first Caribbean art commission

Zak Ové’s sculptures will be unveiled in the Great Court this week, before going on display in the African galleries

Gallery specialising in contemporary African art to open in London

Tyburn Gallery will also feature work by artists from other emerging markets

Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid due to file for bankruptcy

Board members say they will do all they can to save historic company in crisis