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What the end of net neutrality might mean for museums

The vote to repeal net neutrality in the US poses a problem for museums trying to connect with new audiences

15 Jan 2018
Proserpine (detail; 1878), Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Agnews (price on application)

‘There is enduring interest in the stories of the Pre-Raphaelites’

The market for the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers is steady and growing, bucking the trend for Victorian painting

15 Jan 2018
Life of Riley: the MFA mutt makes his first media appearance

Why an art hound is sniffing around the MFA Boston

The latest recruit to the MFA Boston is a three-month-old puppy called Riley

14 Jan 2018
Camillo Borghese (c. 1810), François-Pascal-Simon Gérard. Courtesy of The Frick Collection, New York

Acquisitions of the month: December 2017

Last month’s acquisitions include a portrait of a hirsute lady, and a major purchase for the Frick

13 Jan 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond

Book competition

Your chance to win ‘Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels’ by Christopher Lloyd (Thames & Hudson)

12 Jan 2018
An exotic dog, the Mexican Xoloitzcuintli (c. 1580–1600), Prague School.

A Mexican dog in an early modern menagerie

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

12 Jan 2018

Neave Brown (1929–2018)

Art news daily: 11 January

11 Jan 2018

Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948–2018)

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

11 Jan 2018
Pose Work for Sisters (detail; 2016), Jacqueline Donachie. Courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow

A guide to urban living

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

11 Jan 2018

Emmanuel Macron formalises Shanghai Pompidou Centre project

Art news daily: 10 January

10 Jan 2018
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864), Frederic William Burton. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

The man who made Ireland’s favourite painting

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

10 Jan 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

10 Jan 2018

The dividing lines of Otobong Nkanga

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

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

Matt Hancock is appointed UK culture secretary

Art news daily: 9 January

9 Jan 2018
The Lane Family, (2017), Martin Parr, © Martin Parr.

Posing for Martin Parr

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

9 Jan 2018
Eugene Thaw

Eugene Thaw (1927–2018)

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

9 Jan 2018
C.R.W Nevinson's Battlefields of Britain, part of the Government Art collection, on display at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2012.

Government Art Collection criticised for gender bias

Art news daily: 8 January

8 Jan 2018
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

Why we need to free art by prisoners from behind bars

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

8 Jan 2018
Star exhibit: Justin Bieber at the Met Gala

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

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

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

The double lives of outsider artists

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

8 Jan 2018
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Femme nue, feuilles et buste) (detail; 1932), Pablo Picasso. Private Collection © Succession Picasso/DACS London, 2017

The reopening of the Hayward Gallery and a Tacita Dean trilogy

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

6 Jan 2018

The remarkable legacy of Johan Maelwael

This superbly curated exhibition transforms our understanding of medieval art history

6 Jan 2018