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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art that floats Shaun Ryder’s boat, Donald Trump’s ‘Renoir’, Tracey Emin’s laundry, and Britney Spears’ new hobby
A morsel of Marina Abramović
The performance artist has collaborated with Ladurée on a macaron that distils her personality (so they say)
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jeremy Clarkson’s art fair, Macron’s Picasso, May’s Kahlo, and Renzo Piano’s scooter
The Rake’s progress: Frieze special
George Osborne’s Mao moment, Peter Blake spices up his life, and more Frieze gossip
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Cheeky art patronage at Nando’s, Frank Gehry’s Bilbao nerves and how Julia Stiles beefed up her art history for Riviera
Introducing Vincent van Robogogh
An AI programme developed by a Cambridge-based tech company lets you paint like Van Gogh, apparently
A Kunsthalle for the Kardashians
The Saatchi Gallery staged a pop-up Kardashian exhibition last week. Oh dear.
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tintin the fake news reporter, Michael Jackson at the NPG, and more art-world tittle-tattle
Mrs May’s sermon from hell
Theresa May is outlining her vision for Brexit in Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Where did she get the idea?
The monument that has Muscovites staring down the barrel
A statue of the inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle has been erected in Moscow
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A Twitter tussle between two London museums, gallery doppelgangers, and Howard Hodgkin’s taste in television
Why the Museum of London is going down the drain
A vast ‘fatberg’ is obstructing the sewers of East London – and the Museum of London wants to get hold of a piece
The beauty of baggage reclaim
The Rijksmueum has reopened its gallery at Schipol airport – and there’s a special treat in the baggage hall to mark the occasion
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
David Hockney and Clement Greenberg’s daughter, Ernest Hemingway’s cats, and DIY discussions at Tate Britain
The artists buttering up Justin Trudeau
Canada’s prime minister has been immortalised in butter, while a Kiwi artist has chosen a rather less tasteful medium for his political statuary
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The latest tittle-tattle from the art and museum worlds
The wacky waxworks of Boston
A wax museum in Boston has been widely ridiculed – just look at their effigies of the Royal Family!
Ooh aah Museum Cantona!
The French footballer-cum-actor has his heart set on opening a museum in Sardinia
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy
Please keep off the art…
Visitors get too close to an Yves Klein, and an 800-year-old sarcophagus is the scene of a strange photo shoot
Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…
Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?