The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Robbie Williams’ verdict on David Hockney; Olafur Eliasson’s archery habit; and Shia Laboeuf’s art gets cancelled
How an artist is trolling the Venice Biennale
The Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has handed over the creation of the country’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale to a brace of trolls. Really.
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The YBAs party until their bedtime; Donald Trump learns to draw; and Richard Prince trolls the White House
David Hockney – too much in the Sun?
David Hockney’s redesign of the Sun masthead split opinions in the art world
Bones of contention at a museum near you…
Skeletons have come out of the closet at museums in the US and UK…
Remembering John Hurt and the Colony Room
The late John Hurt was a fixture on the bohemian Soho scene of Francis Bacon and the Colony Room
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jasper Conran’s brush with Warhol; Lucian Freud’s appetite; and Waldemar gets very cross on Twitter…
Snappy snaps and street art with Brooklyn Beckham
Brooklyn Beckham seems more interested in aesthetic presence than athletic prowess – with a book of his photographs imminent, and street artist chums
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Frank Gehry’s coffee-making skills, the architecture critic named the hottest man in London, and Shia Laboeuf takes on Trump’s presidency
And the face of the City of Culture is… John Prescott!
The big hitters of Hull are out in force to promote its status as the UK’s City of Culture – John Prescott chief among them
The art world protests against Trump, in its own special way…
From Cindy Sherman to the Femen movement to Richard Prince, artists have been taking aim at Trump ahead of his inauguration
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art of rejection (from Oxford University), James May’s Matisse moment, and the rest of the week’s art tittle-tattle
Farewell then, Boris bus…
With the Boris bus discontinued and the Garden Bridge in doubt, the legacies of Bojo’s bromance with Thomas Heatherwick are taking their curtain call
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
John Berger’s motorbikes; James Franco and the art of method acting; and concrete coffee, exclusive to Selfridges
Year of the Rooster, art of the poultry yard
Joana Vasconcelos has sent a cockerel sculpture to Beijing for Chinese New Year. She’s only the latest artist to have a thing for chickens
When Facebook nixed a naughty Neptune
Facebook recently censored a photograph of Giambologna’s Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. But did its software notice the sculpture’s naughty side?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The arty words of the year, a Warhol wrangle in Belgrade, and Anish Kapoor gets his hands on the ‘pinkest pink’
Fear not! Shia LaBeouf’s performance art is back!
Just when you thought Shia Labeouf had given up on being an artist, the actor has returned to the fray with a baffling performance in Australia
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The sorry tale of a Roman Christmas tree; the pinkest pink and Anish Kapoor; and George Osborne’s coffee table books of choice
Sly Stallone’s Rocky future for the arts
Is action man Sylvester Stallone about to be made Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts by President-elect Trump?
Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
Caravaggio and the end of capitalism; Benedict Cumberbatch in Tate’s Rauschenberg gift shop; and Alan Yentob in Calais
Meet your new chairman, the Prince of Darkness
Peter Mandelson has been appointed chairman of trustees at the Design Museum, the week after he lent his support to a replica of the Titanic…
Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
Nigel Farage compares himself to Picasso; Jerry Saltz hates dogs; and P Diddy goes shopping in Miami
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?