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Uri Geller is to open a museum in Jaffa, Israel, next year – and his psychic powers, or at least an archaeological team, have led to a discovery on site

Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)

Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle

The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth

Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he’s a fan of Harry Styles

A pop-up monument to commemorate 25 years since the release of Jurassic Park has appeared in London – and yes, it’s terrifying

Flag wags, Madonna at the National Portrait Gallery, and why Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat might be heading to the Museum of London

Ed Vaizey does the floss dance, Germaine Greer takes aim at art in schools and Vincent van Gogh gets his own beer

An amateur restoration job on a sculpture in Estella, northern Spain, has become an internet sensation

A ‘Renoir’ pizza could be just the thing after perusing some of Manifesta‘s more offbeat installations

Beyonce and Jay-Z take over the Louvre, Kurt Cobain in Co. Kildare, and why Olafur Eliasson is teaming up with Ikea

American philatelists with a nose for novelty can now get their hands on scratch n’sniff stamps. And is Royal Mail having a laugh with its Dad’s Army set?

What doesn’t Arron Banks know about the Hermitage? Why is Christie’s like a tennis court? And did anyone point out how that G7 photo looks like a Renaissance painting?

The actor Willem Dafoe will play Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti in a reading at the Beyeler Foundation later this month

A reality TV star meets the Mona Lisa in Paris, Grayson Perry on why art beats theatre, and Bill and Hillary Clinton’s collection of Bono drawings

The late American novelist’s friends included R.B. Kitaj and Philip Guston. But he didn’t always get on with contemporary art…