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Thomas Heatherwick himself turned up wearing a jacket embroidered with leaves and foliage
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…
Do we need a museum dedicated to the Olsen twins? Er, no.
A Kickstarter campaign to launch an Olsen twins museum has Rakewell reaching for his absinthe bottle
It makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class...his body has witnessed much and should be documented
A lust for life drawing (or, Iggy Pop takes his clothes off, again)
Iggy Pop has been getting his kit off (again), in the name of art
I just think Lucian Freud makes everyone look like they're made of cheese
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Zaha Hadid’s favourite rapper, art in space, and why Prince Philip doesn’t rate Lucian Freud
A contested cockerel and other controversies
Rakewell reflects on how the public has started taking restitution into its own hands
The Met’s new logo and a truly pretentious party
The Met’s rebranding exercise has not gone well, Kanye West needs $1 billion, and London’s art world has been partying in the name of pretentiousness
A history of Kanye Western art
Kanye West thinks he’s Picasso or Michelangelo – but Rakewell is not so sure
The museum of Cornish pasties and a peek inside Vincent’s bedroom
The Cornish pasty museum and now booking: Van Gogh’s bedroom on Airbnb
The YBA demolition jobs causing a sensation near you
Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are building and burrowing in London – but at what cost, asks Rakewell
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster
Arks and car parks at the Creation Museum
Spare a thought for the poor souls at the Creation Museum, says Rakewell, whose ambitions are being held up by red tape
Situation terminal: can an artist improve Manchester Airport?
Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence
The Rake’s Progress: The Week in Gossip
The return of the fig leaf, Thomas Heatherwick’s selective statistics, and a museum director in the postroom
Italy tucks away its assets to avoid Iranian blushes
Italian PM Matteo Renzi likes to boast about his country’s cultural heritage – until the Iranian president visits, that is…
The Rake’s Progress: Last Week in Gossip
Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director’s penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films
The curious incident of the dog on Gormley’s coastline
British sculptor Antony Gormley has a furry new fan
Bursting bubbles at the Saatchi Gallery
Great to have a show dedicated to women artists – but why the baffling title?
Do women have to be censored to get on CBS?
The Guerrilla Girls appeared on TV this week with more than just their faces obscured…
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Matthew Slotover launch their modelling careers
Move over David Gandy…
The US museums that will let you carry a gun – no joke, alas
The Denver Museum of Nature & Sciences has reversed its anti-gun policy. But it’s not the only shooting gallery in the US
New Year in Manchester: Golden Cut or Half Cut?
How social media took the Golden Ratio out of all proportion…
Rakewell revisited: Mao, Hamilton Finlay’s ‘heavies’ and Uri Geller’s spoon
Updates on some of Rakewell’s most popular stories from 2015, including the gentlemanly disagreement between Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brian Sewell and Apollo
Your surreal Christmas, courtesy of a museum gift shop near you
Rakewell scours the museum gift shops of the world for his last-minute gifts for the entire family
The Rake’s Progress: A Week in Gossip
Damien Hirst’s Xmas tree controversy; hungering after Olafur Eliasson’s vegetables; and is Shia LaBeouf screening Rakewell’s calls?
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