Rakewell
Deck the halls with festive follies!
The wacky Christmas decorations installed in London’s leading museums
A fishy new uniform for V&A staff
The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A cheap date with Martin Parr, Damien Hirst CBE (or not), and a very meaty recipe for mince pies
Thank you for the loo sick: the Abba show that conjures up a ’70s nightclub
An exhibition dedicated to Abba at the Southbank Centre recreates some gloomy rooms from the 1970s
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Celebs at Art Basel Miami Beach, Ai Weiwei’s problem with German, and Peter Hitchens pans his portrait
Careless whisker: Grayson Perry’s lost cat comes home
After going AWOL for several days, Grayson Perry’s cat has been reunited with the artist. Hooray!
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artistic tastes of Britain’s spies, Prince Harry’s museum dance, Damien Hirst’s shopping habits and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
A simple lesson for any artist: do not chain yourself to a rock
Artist Mikes Poppe has been cut from a block of marble that he chained himself to 19 days ago
Now there’s a museum of selfies, too…
…And Rakewell hopes that Paris Hilton takes her rightful place in its display (erm, honest)
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jake Gyllenhaal turns art critic, the better side of Cristiano Ronaldo and the artistic love of Yannis Varoufakis
The burger museum facing the bulldozers
In Illinois, a nugget of fast-food heritage is set to be demolished
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art of the sausage roll, Terence Conran’s childhood, and Eric Cantona’s little pen and notebook
Why Vienna is too vulgar for the Victoria Line
Advertising posters bearing nude sketches by Egon Schiele were deemed too racy for London’s commuters
A potty fundraising campaigning in Salisbury
Visitors to the Salisbury Museum will be privy to a new fundraising campaign from ‘World Toilet Day’
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Big bucks for a Britney Spears painting, Van Gogh’s grasshopper, and absinthe at the National Gallery
Tied up at the Design Museum with Jon Snow
Jon Snow’s jazzy neckwear has a display of its own at the Design Museum in London
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Cindy Sherman spurns selfies and Tracey Emin takes aim at Theresa May
The fine art of Russian hacking
…And who ‘hacked’ the State Tretyakov Gallery’s Twitter account last week?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Minnesota merchandise, Barbara Kruger on the metro, and John Humphry’s porridge
California chills out at the Museum of Ice Cream
Pop-up ‘museums of ice cream’ are a hit in California – but some locals are giving them the cold shoulder
Donald Trump, the (almost) blue-chip artist
For the second time this year, a doodle by Donald has fetched thousands of dollars at auction
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A trashy installation in Aspen, Bath on Botox, and Prince’s dancing shoes at the V&A
Just in time for Halloween, the latest diabolical daub!
An apparently innocuous painting is terrifying the good folk of the Midlands
Tintin takes on Asterix in the salerooms
The last major Tintin work by Hergé goes under the hammer this weekend. Can it beat Asterix’s astronomical prices?
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?