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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artist living inside a boulder in Paris; the portrait of Tony Blair that nobody wants; and the art publisher boosted by the Oscars
I hereby dedicate this new museum to… myself!
The Bolivian president Evo Morales has opened a museum dedicated to – who else? – himself
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artist who wants you to ‘thump a Trump’; Winston Churchill’s ET moment; plus the rest of last week’s art-world gossip
Henry Moore takes to the catwalk
The new Burberry collection has taken inspiration from the work of Henry Moore…
Jeremy Corbyn, coming to a museum near you!
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is touting himself as a tour guide at the People’s History Museum in Manchester
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
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Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?