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The French presidential candidates avoiding French art
Pluralist Emmanuel Macron came under fire for saying he’s never seen any French art
A bundle of bungles at the Museum of Failure
A museum dedicated to disastrous products and ideas is set to open in Sweden
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Luke Skywalker’s cereal box collection; Alex Jones’s ‘performance art’; Nice’s accidental Yves Klein art trail; and a reason to look forward to 8 June…
The art world goes potty for Duchamp’s urinal
A sprinkling of subversive celebrations to mark the centenary of Duchamp’s urinal
Pierce Brosnan picks up the paintbrush
The former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is to exhibit his paintings in Paris
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Eduardo Paolozzi’s comedy moment; cooking with Georgia O’Keeffe; and at home with Klaus Biesenbach
How street art became a hobby for posh kids
Instagram promotion, protests daubed in Latin… graffiti is starting to look like a genteel pastime
The painful practice of cashing in on the Crucifixion
The clergy in Manchester have condemned a wheeze to sell crucifixion experiences
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The pick of last week’s art world tittle tattle – including the best April fools
The unlikely art of the beer bottle
How beer art went from a Gilbert & George lager bottle to museums opening their own beer gardens
A short history of (pretty dreadful) football statuary
The Cristiano Ronaldo bust is the latest in a tradition of bad football sculptures
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Rachel Whiteread on her publicity-hungry peers, plus the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
Shia LaBeouf waves the white flag (again)
The actor relocated his anti-Trump installation to Liverpool this week only to be hoisted by hooligans once more
George Osborne MP. And editor. And banker. And art lover?
Perhaps George Osborne is good news for the Evening Standard’s culture pages
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Gilbert & George RA; Giles Coren, art historian; and Mary Beard takes aim at the Vatican Museums
Take note, Patricia Cornwell. There are better ways to splash $6 million on Walter Sickert
The Sickerts that Patricia Cornwell could have bought for the $6 million she has spent ‘proving’ he was Jack the Ripper
The artists who dine out on their reputation
Damien Hirst is by no means the first artist to have done a doodle for a restaurateur
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Howard Hodgkin’s acute eye for beach towels, plus Jack White and De Stijl
How Ivanka Trump’s art collection turned on her
Ivanka Trump’s love of contemporary art and artists has led to a backlash from artists and curators
The inky links between Ed Sheeran and Damien Hirst
A bromance is blossoming between Damien Hirst and the popstar Ed Sheeran
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Smashing (Kusama) pumpkins; the pop star and the painter; and at home with Maggi Hambling
McDonald’s has opened its first ‘museum-restaurant’. Honest!
The McDonald’s branch where you can now visit an archaeological site while you nibble your McNuggets
Meet Donald Trump’s artistic entourage
The second lady is a vocal advocate of art therapy and an art historian has joined the National Security Council
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?