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Large Asian art collection donated to the University of Texas at Dallas

Art news daily: 25 January

It’s time to return Murillo to the canon of the greats

The Penitent Saint Jerome (detail; c. 1650), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Museo del Prado

A year in celebration of the Spanish baroque painter in Seville has made a clear case for his talent and influence

Museums in the UK have been sold short by the new Cultural Development Fund

Image: Tom Lobo Brennan

The government has pledged £20m of investment in five regions – but cultural institutions are unlikely to be better off than before

Vancouver Art Gallery receives $40m for new building

Architect’s rendering of the new Vancouver Art Gallery building.

Art news daily: 24 January

Assembling the fragments of Africa’s medieval past

Left: Seated figure (late 13th–14th century), possibly Ife, Tada, Nigeria. Right: Virgin and Child (c. 1275–1300), France.

Rarely exhibited objects from Saharan Africa, viewed alongside familiar European works, offer a fresh take on the Middle Ages

Jonas Mekas (1922–2019)

Jonas Mekas in 2015.

Art news daily: 23 January

The best of BRAFA 2019

Saint Andrew (Portrait of Abraham Grapheus), Jordaens

The fair in Brussels returns with a wide-ranging edition offering tribal art, modern Belgian painting and more

Olivia Colman’s royal capers and tapers

Critics have waxed lyrical about The Favourite – but spare a thought for the candle crew on set at Hatfield House

Haus der Kunst Munich appoints commission to oversee programming

Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Art news daily: 22 January

The unsettling domesticity of Jean Cooke

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Sofas Galore (c. 1980s), Jean Cooke. © The artist's estate, courtesy Piano Nobile

The claustrophobia in this British painter’s work hints at a talent stifled by her better-known artist husband

‘The paint makes its own image’ – an interview with Pat Steir

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The Barnes Series VI, Steir

The artist’s ‘Waterfall’ series is about the movement of water, the movement of paint – and the painter’s own moves around the canvas

The nun with lapis lazuli in her teeth is a great story – but she wasn’t alone

A fleck of lapis lazuli found in the lower jaw of a female skeleton from the 11th or 12th century, Photo: Christina Warinner

It shouldn’t be news that women illustrated manuscripts in the Middle Ages, but there’s no denying the appeal of a recent discovery

Proposed ‘Tulip’ skyscraper breaches London planning guidelines

Art news daily: 21 January

The madcap menagerie of Koen Vanmechelen

Inside Koen Vanmechelen’s LABIOMISTA in Genk, Belgium

With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry

Jake Gyllenhaal and the horrors of contemporary art

Gyllenhaal plays a contemporary art critic in a forthcoming art-world satire that was inspired by a trip to Dia: Beacon

Bangers and cash – why currywurst has its own commemorative coin

Plus: the mysteries of Loic Gouzer and how a notorious art thief turned to drawing

Did Italian art ever really take a Romantic turn?

The Veneration of St Michael (1825–30), Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti. Musei Reali di Torino

Italian artists have been neglected in histories of the pan-European movement

Zimbabwe biennial postponed due to political turmoil

Art news daily: 18 January

The most beautiful boy in the Roman empire

Bust of Antinous with Greek inscription, (AD 130–138), discovered in Balanea, Syria in 1879. Private collection

Antinous, favourite of the emperor Hadrian, was commemorated all over the Roman world. He is a more troubling figure today

Artsy president and co-founder Sebastian Cwilich to step down

Sebastian Cwilich. Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for Art Basel Miami 2012

Art news daily: 17 January

‘Joan Mitchell is the real star here’

Jean-Paul Riopelle and Joan Mitchell photographed in their apartment-studio on Rue Frémicourt, Paris in 1963.

Pairing the Abstract Expressionist’s work with that of her longtime partner Jean-Paul Riopelle makes it clear she was the greater artist

Art Stage Singapore cancelled

Art Stage Singapore 2016. Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 16 January

What not to miss at London Art Fair 2019

Le serpent, Graham Sutherland

This year’s edition of the fair presents modern British works inspired by the Sussex countryside alongside global contemporary art

Piecing together the untold story of Ida O’Keeffe

Variation on a Lighthouse Theme II (detail; c. 1931–32), Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe

An exhibition in Dallas places the spotlight on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister