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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The high-school pottery that fooled an antiques expert, Darth Vader hits the museums, and an artist who has removed his nipples in, erm, the name of art
Pills, thrills and (musical) bellyaches: lunch, the Damien Hirst way
Rakewell enjoys lunches Damien Hirst’s new Pharmacy 2 restaurant – if only the waiters would provide earplugs to drown out the ’90s soundtrack
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Art slides and crazy golf in London, and Giacometti’s Jezza phase
William and Kate’s taste for the Old Masters
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Italian scientists claim art is a stress buster, while the staff of a London gallery have been told to put their feet up. Rakewell has his doubts…
The spirit of the Renaissance, via YouTube
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
Has Tate Modern secretly switched directors?
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The garden bridge gets hijacked on Twitter. Plus, how Damien Hirst like his fish cooked (clue: he’s fussy)
Found in Florence! The lost tribe of Leonardo
Rakewell likes nothing better than a good bit of amateur genealogy
Handbags at dawn! Plans to install a statue of Margaret Thatcher have been quashed!
Mrs Thatcher’s missing handbag and the case of the disappearing duck
Rakewell ponders two statues in London that have come in for criticism because they are missing vital accessories
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
David Shrigley’s foam hands, Olafur Eliasson’s shaky economics and a chance to buy Andy Warhol’s studio
Pencils, irons and used underwear: the world’s wackiest museums
Whatever your thing, says Rakewell, there’s a museum for you out there somewhere
Zac Goldsmith isn't the only mayoral candidate to have been left floundering this week by his ignorance of the city’s museums
The museum pratfalls of London’s mayoral candidates (yep, Zac AND Sadiq)
Neither Zac Goldsmith nor Sadiq Khan seem to know a thing about the capital’s museums
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
How Brazilian fowl play has left a Dutch artist spitting feathers
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman claims that Brazilian protesters have plagiarised his inflatable rubber duck.
Narcissism helps to sell art? Explains why contemporary artists love mirrors so much
Top artists are narcissists. It’s official (sort of)
An academic paper claims you can tell an artist’s vanity by the size of their signature. Well, maybe.
Dr Who isn’t the only art-historical lookalike out there – here are four more of the best
Rakewell picks out his favourite lookalikes in historical paintings, from David Cameron to Sylvester Stallone
When politicians paint over their mistakes
Iain Duncan Smith once said that oil painting was like politics – because you could easily paint over your mistakes. Rakewell picks out a few politicians who have done just that
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Why has Arsène Wenger slipped in to artspeak? Plus a dog that can paint and more yet more art pouting from Kanye West
The pop art that should never have reached the recording studio
From Joseph Beuys to Dinos Chapman, the artists who have turned to music but should never have hit the studio
UNESCO gears up for a pizza party
The Neapolitan dough boys have applied for protected status for pizza through UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage scheme
I hate Frieze. It’s a tent. In a park. That sells art. Not a cultural phenomenon
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The Steve Lazarides effect, at home with Elton John and his collection, and the Museum of Broken Relationships heads to LA
When restoration goes wrong. Very wrong.
The only near comparable disaster that sprung to mind was Saddam Hussein’s reconstruction of Babylon
Creative Scotland’s journey to the undertaker
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
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