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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The latest from Snoop Dogg’s painting career; plus Tate’s buttocks are too sensitive for Twitter
Van Gogh gets a trance music soundtrack
The Van Gogh Museum is to launch a multimedia guide with DJ Armin van Buuren. The yellow house music, anyone?
David Shrigley gives Trafalgar Square the thumbs-up
Is David Shrigley‘s fourth-plinth sculpture sincere or satirical?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The portraits of ‘Pricasso’; Vittorio Sgarbi takes aim at Swissair; the sartorial secrets of Simon de Pury; and John Cale’s debt to art
Remaking the Russian revolutionaries
Why is Stalin vaping and what does Karl Marx have in common with Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Putin’s man in Chechnya embraces the new chivalry
Ramzan Kadyrov is the latest figure to embrace the 2016 armour revival
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Inside the YBAs’ houses; educating Trump; and a drinky art fair director
The five key works of ‘Donaldism’ (so far)
Rakewell rounds up the best of the satirical art taking aim at Donald Trump
The Berlin nightclub that’s all about high culture – honest!
The Berghain has been recognised as a ‘high art’ institution. Museum directors will be pleased!
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A flutter on the next Tate boss; Bob Dylan’s casino gates; and the strange case of the missing Antony Gormley sculpture
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The Corens who do and don’t do art; Serpentine art speak; and is Banksy a trip hop legend?
The Holbein hand that hacked off Facebook
A Holbein study of Erasmus’s hand led to one user being suspended from Facebook – and he thinks there are ‘dark forces’ at work
Jilly Cooper’s bizarre attack on Grayson Perry
The novelist has taken aim at Grayson Perry in an interview – but does she have any idea what she’s talking about?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Boozing with Ragnar Kjartansson; kittiwakes at the BM; and techno Tillmans
Kara Walker’s best dance moves and other musical moments…
It’s been a month of pop/art collaborations, including Frank Ocean’s foray into art publishing, and Madonna’s tempting invitation to Art Basel Miami
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Marina Abramovic is apologetic, a very loose definition of ’Persian’, and Berlin’s pedestrians scandalise Ai Weiwei
The ghostbusters heading to a museum near you
Ghosthunters have been fishing for phantoms in a Lincolnshire museum – the latest in a long tradition of haunted museums
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Grayson Perry, restaurant critic, plus the rest of this week’s art world gossip
Jumpin’ Jack flash photography – and more Rolling Stones art
Bill Wyman’s photographs are about to go on show in London – and quite right, as the Stones have long had a love for the London gallery scene
Today’s episode of Donald Trump is brought to you by the letter T
Trump isn’t having much luck with his initial: first a logo that looked too dirty for Donald, now a T monument that has burnt down suspiciously
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artists providing airline security, an Olympic art blooper and looking for the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery
Will St Petersburg vote to make David decent?
A replica of Michelangelo’s David is too much for some St Petersburg residents. They’re voting this month on whether to cover him up
Hillary Clinton is a big sculpture fan. But how will she stomach this street art?
Clinton trumps her rival when it comes to backing the arts, but she may not be so keen on her recent appearance in a Melbourne mural
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A Leonardo for the nude selfie era; an art bandit on the loose in Edinburgh; and lunchtime at the Rauschenberg Foundation
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