When Ed Sheeran met David Hockney
Ed Sheeran has joined the big league – by becoming the latest star to pose for David Hockney
Jeremy Corbyn’s heritage hang-ups
Plus: Donald Trump’s wedding cake goes under the hammer, and Lars von Trier turns his films into diamonds
From bus tours to bacteria – a brief cultural guide to Brian Blessed
The thunderous thespian is to voice the bacteria that spread the Black Death for a new display at the Museum of London
Bloody ballads and semen straw sculptures
The latest bizarre artworks to come to Rakewell’s attention feature blood donations and cattle-rearing devices
The secret of David Hockney’s tomato sandwich
In a short film by Ridley Scott, David Hockney opens up about his time at the Royal College of Art – and mischievous visits to the V&A
A decadent darling decamps from Twitter
Bougie London Literary Woman has sidled away from social media – for now. Rakewell rounds up some of her art-related tweets
A monumental mix-up in Aberdeenshire
Plus: Toto forever in the Namib Desert and art students in China face an overfamiliar exam
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
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
The photoshop fails of your favourite politicians
The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history
Cutting criticism – a tale of Bendor Grosvenor’s cat
Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud
Hans Ulrich Obrist as you’ve never seen him before
Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake
Michael Cohen, captured for posterity
Plus: Jools Holland and his model railway, and how Monster Chetwynd got her name
The best of British booze culture – it’s the museum of Wetherspoons
The British pub chain has announced that it will develop a museum at a boozer in Wolverhampton
The leaning fir tree of Southampton
Britain is bedecked with Christmas trees once more – and this year’s surprise hit is a tilting trunk in Southampton
Fishy fragrances and Flemish still lifes
Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović
Vincent Van Gogh, young and old
A portrait photograph long thought to show Van Gogh turns out to depict his brother Theo
David Davis, the accidental Roman emperor
Plus: a street artist with a vendetta in LA and Jerry Saltz dresses up as Frida Kahlo
Michael Jackson’s moony marginalia
A copy of a self-help book once owned by Michael Jackson is up for auction – personalised by the King of Pop himself
A Boris blunder for the Museum of London
Plus: Picasso at Annabel’s and Donald Trump rides across a golden burger
A cat and mouse game at a museum in Japan
A feline farce at the Onomichi City Museum of Art has got social media purring
I’ve got a brush… Frank Sinatra’s paintings go under the hammer
Sotheby’s is selling a clutch of canvases by Old Blue Eyes – as well as a number of curious Sinatra souvenirs
A brush with Boris Johnson
A painter in London is inviting the public to get creative with her portrait of Boris Johnson – by making their own additions
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?