Anny Shaw

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

'Two ex-art students just getting on with it': Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood to have first museum show next summer

Donwood reveals the thinking behind the band’s album covers over the past 30 years—and why he gave up trying to paint a portrait of the band

Sotheby’s to hold first ever commercial auction in Saudi Arabia in February

The auction house will hold the sale in the historic town of Diriyah, offering Modern and contemporary art as well as handbags, cars and sports memorabilia

Surrealist women come into the spotlight at Frieze Masters

Gallery Minsky is marking the movement's centenary by showing works by the likes of Leonor Fini and Stanislao Lepri

Out with the new, in with the old: why galleries are returning to established names

While bigger ticket items have been selling at Frieze Masters, once high-flying ultra-contemporary artists have fallen out of favour

'Venus, morning star, sweet potato': Gagosian pairs Basquiat painting with ancient Roman sculpture for new Paris show

Exploring the theme of classical art in the American artist's work, the gallery is bringing together a 1982 canvas with a marble figure of Venus from the rarely seen Torlonia Collection

'Very active participants in their own careers': why joint representation is proving popular for young artists

Emerging artists art discovering that working with smaller galleries alongside blue-chip firms can provide the best of both worlds

British photographer Rankin’s advertising agency files for bankruptcy amid tough 'shift in the creative landscape'

Rankin, who has photographed David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II among others, says the last two years have been "massively challenging" due to reduced budgets and losing work to programmatic and AI-based solutions

Art marketanalysis

Amid cutbacks, big art market players are still chasing growth

Mega-dealers and auction houses are shrinking some areas while expanding others

Saints, stigmata and solace: Tracey Emin dives into the spiritual in London exhibition of new works

British artist says she needs to express her belief in “other worlds” as she gets older

Marlborough Gallery building goes up for sale for more than £25m

The gallery folded earlier this year and is in the process of dispersing its art inventory

Larry Gagosian and Peter Doig join forces in ‘unique collaboration’

The British painter, who left his longtime dealer Michael Werner last year, is curating a show at Gagosian's New York gallery in November

Largest Morandi exhibition in almost 20 years to open in New York

The show, organised by the Italian dealer Mattia de Luca, coincides with the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death

White Cube in London lets go of 38 invigilators—most of them artists and students

The terminations follow a general trend among galleries that are moving away from visitor engagement to visitor management, the workers were told

Chris Levine’s Queen Elizabeth II portraits at centre of multi-million-pound copyright row

Jersey Heritage Trust is suing the light artist over unpaid licensing fees, but the artist says the charity owes him money

Banksy hits back at UK home secretary, saying the detention of his migrant rescue boat in Italy is ‘vile and unacceptable’

British street artist launched an inflatable boat artwork at Glastonbury to highlight the migrant crisis

National Galleries of Scotland will continue to take sponsorship from Baillie Gifford despite protests over ties with fossil fuel industry and Israel

The asset management company ended its sponsorship of nine book festivals after campaign groups protested against their involvement

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Cash-strapped museums struggle with ‘moral reckoning’ over sponsors

The Israel-Gaza war has escalated campaigns against arts funders deemed to be problematic

Banksy's Glastonbury migrant boat artwork is ‘vile’, says UK home secretary

The inflatable boat with dummies of migrants is a “celebration of loss of life in the Channel”, claims the Conservative politician

Carpenters Workshop Gallery denies allegations of sexual and financial impropriety

The gallery is "saddened" by accusations made by former employees and artists reported by the newsletter Air Mail

Hauser & Wirth opens its Basel gallery with Hammershøi show

Mega-gallery has opened its 18th location just in time for the 2024 edition of Art Basel

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Queen Sonja of Norway calls art a ‘unifying force in turbulent times’

The monarch was speaking at her biannual printmaking award ceremony, where Anselm Kiefer received a lifetime achievement award

Italy clamps down on company guaranteeing art investment returns

Art Invest Srl claims it will sell paintings and buy them back for a 6.8% value increase over 18 months

Art marketanalysis

‘Investment galleries’ that pitch art as a safe haven gain ground in the UK

But can the notoriously fickle art market ever be considered a sure bet?

Sotheby’s to lay off dozens of employees in UK with further cuts planned in other locations

Auction house is in “consultation period” ahead of redundancies, sources say

Harmony Korine: 'If life is a movie, every blink could be an edit'

As his paintings go on show at Hauser & Wirth in London, the film-maker, writer and artist tells us about his latest genre-bending output and his biggest influences

Damien Hirst backdated at least 1,000 paintings from his NFT project, investigation reveals

Discrepancies in the dates of Hirst's works are—once again—coming under scrutiny

Kehinde Wiley says he will take legal action to clear his name after fellow artist accuses him of sexual assault

The US artist has been accused of sexually assaulting British-Ghanaian Joseph Awuah-Darko in 2021

Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman, three artists who ‘redefined sculpture’, to be shown together for first time in London

Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the “correspondence or unity of material among the three of them,” says its curator