Rakewell

Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter are just a few of the artists who have taken to the bottle and designed labels for famous brands

Ed Sheeran has joined the big league – by becoming the latest star to pose for David Hockney

The thunderous thespian is to voice the bacteria that spread the Black Death for a new display at the Museum of London

The latest bizarre artworks to come to Rakewell’s attention feature blood donations and cattle-rearing devices

In a short film by Ridley Scott, David Hockney opens up about his time at the Royal College of Art – and mischievous visits to the V&A

Bougie London Literary Woman has sidled away from social media – for now. Rakewell rounds up some of her art-related tweets

Plus: Toto forever in the Namib Desert and art students in China face an overfamiliar exam

Critics have waxed lyrical about The Favourite – but spare a thought for the candle crew on set at Hatfield House

Gyllenhaal plays a contemporary art critic in a forthcoming art-world satire that was inspired by a trip to Dia: Beacon

Plus: the mysteries of Loic Gouzer and how a notorious art thief turned to drawing

The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history

Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud

Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake

Plus: Jools Holland and his model railway, and how Monster Chetwynd got her name

Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović

A copy of a self-help book once owned by Michael Jackson is up for auction – personalised by the King of Pop himself

Plus: Picasso at Annabel’s and Donald Trump rides across a golden burger

A feline farce at the Onomichi City Museum of Art has got social media purring