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A Mexican dog in an early modern menagerie

An exotic dog, the Mexican Xoloitzcuintli (c. 1580–1600), Prague School.

How an ancient breed of hairless dog made its way into the Habsburg art collection

Neave Brown (1929–2018)

Art news daily: 11 January

Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948–2018)

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The scholar, teacher and advocate of the applied arts of 20th-century Ireland has died at the age of 69

A guide to urban living

Pose Work for Sisters (detail; 2016), Jacqueline Donachie. Courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

In her mid-career survey, Jacqueline Donachie explores the hidden cruelties of the urban environment

Emmanuel Macron formalises Shanghai Pompidou Centre project

Art news daily: 10 January

The man who made Ireland’s favourite painting

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864), Frederic William Burton. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Frederic William Burton’s sentimental watercolour scenes reflect the taste of a bygone era

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Matt Hancock’s party vibes and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

The dividing lines of Otobong Nkanga

For her first solo exhibition in Ireland, Otobong Nkanga complicates easy distinctions between the natural and the industrial

Matt Hancock is appointed UK culture secretary

New UK Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Matt Hancock arriving at 10 Downing Street on 9 January 2018. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images

Art news daily: 9 January

Posing for Martin Parr

The Lane Family, (2017), Martin Parr, © Martin Parr.

The photographer’s foundation opens with pop-up portrait sessions and an exhibition of images of the West Midlands

Eugene Thaw (1927–2018)

Eugene Thaw

Eugene Thaw, the collector of drawings and celebrated art dealer, has died at the age of 90

Government Art Collection criticised for gender bias

C.R.W Nevinson's Battlefields of Britain, part of the Government Art collection, on display at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2012.

Art news daily: 8 January

Why we need to free art by prisoners from behind bars

Untitled (Shipwrecked Boat) (2016), Djamel Ameziane. On view in ‘Ode to the Sea’ at President’s Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. Courtesy the artist and John Jay College

The Pentagon wants to ban the display of art by Guantánamo detainees – but it’s important that we engage with art made in captivity

Yes, a Canadian museum really is putting on a Justin Bieber exhibition

Star exhibit: Justin Bieber at the Met Gala

Ontario is the place to head if you want to see the pop star’s running shoes

The double lives of outsider artists

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Vivian Maier (1926–2009) often photographed her reflection in mirrors or windows, © 2018 The Estate of Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier took thousands of photographs, but showed them to no one. Why are some artists so determined to keep their work secret?

The reopening of the Hayward Gallery and a Tacita Dean trilogy

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Femme nue, feuilles et buste) (detail; 1932), Pablo Picasso. Private Collection © Succession Picasso/DACS London, 2017

It’s a big year for museums in the UK, with reopenings, expansions, and collaborations in London and Cambridge

The remarkable legacy of Johan Maelwael

This superbly curated exhibition transforms our understanding of medieval art history

Arup to create arts venue at Sheffield’s Park Hill estate

Art news daily: 5 January

Fra Angelico in Boston, Scarpa’s glass, and Tintoretto at 500

The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin

The chief curator of the Frick Collection picks out his highlights for the year ahead

The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2018

Artist Gillian Wearing with a model of her statue of Millicent Fawcett. Photograph: Caroline Teo/GLA/PA

Expect celebrations of Cubism, universal suffrage, architects and art collectors in the coming year

Indian jewels stolen from exhibition at Venice’s Palazzo Ducale

An object from the Al Thani collection on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2014. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Art news daily: 4 January

A tribute to Gavin Stamp (1948–2017)

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The great architecture critic and campaigner has died at the age of 69

The Irish art galleries ringing the changes in 2018

Highlights in Dublin and Cork this year include exhibitions on Brian Maguire, Wolfgang Tillmans and Mary Swanzy

The battle for Picasso’s mind

Bunker 2 (detail; 2017), Doug Ashford. Still from digital film. Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam

An exhibition in Berlin explores how both sides in the Cold War tried to turn artists into ideological weapons