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A bigger gnash: when Dennis the Menace met David Hockney
Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London
How Barbie failed Frida Kahlo
Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist
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Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump’s share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe’s divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.
At last! Prince Edward has become an artwork
The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props
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The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and ‘All Too Human’, why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle
A nude causes a fuss on Facebook (again) – but clothes are making mischief at the Met
You can’t show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met
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Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
Jeremy Bentham hops across the pond
Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer
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London Fashion Week shuts down the National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess of Cambridge gets creative, and Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ invents a Museum of Great Britain
Angel delight? Twenty years of the Angel of the North
The Angel of the North may have been co-opted to sell baguettes in its time, but the north-east has undoubtedly come to love it
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Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories
The Tate puts the boot into Turner
The appearance of Turner paintings on Dr. Martens bovver boots has some of the painter’s fan fulminating
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Appy days for Matt Hancock, bitcoin art business, and a useful lesson from Maria Balshaw. Plus the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
A Valentine’s gift to melt your heart – perhaps
Valentine’s Day looks set to bring its usual mad merchandise – which this year, includes an unnervingly realistic chocolate heart
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Chris Brown’s rant at artists, Erykah Badu’s assessment of Hitler’s art, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle tattle
Michelangelo comes out of his shell at the Met
A cartoon turtle graced the Met’s Michelangelo exhibition last week – and Leonardo suffered a rather greater indignity at the Louvre
Why there’s absolutely nothing to see at an exhibition in LA
A show at Human Resources gallery leaves a lot to the imagination – because there’s nothing in it
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Why Oliver Cromwell is in a spin at Westminster, Mona Hatoum’s pasta-based practice, and more
How the Bayeux Tapestry had Twitter in stitches
The proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry has made for some, erm, creative threads on social media
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Timothy Spall plays another painter, a Rauschenberg is at risk, and Steve Lazarides in praise of bluffing
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
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Matt Hancock’s party vibes and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
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
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Justin Bieber takes up painting, an art-breaking first date, and Hans-Ulrich on the beach
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?