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The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props

The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and ‘All Too Human’, why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle

You can’t show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met

Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer

London Fashion Week shuts down the National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess of Cambridge gets creative, and Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ invents a Museum of Great Britain

The Angel of the North may have been co-opted to sell baguettes in its time, but the north-east has undoubtedly come to love it

Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories

The appearance of Turner paintings on Dr. Martens bovver boots has some of the painter’s fan fulminating

Appy days for Matt Hancock, bitcoin art business, and a useful lesson from Maria Balshaw. Plus the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

Chris Brown’s rant at artists, Erykah Badu’s assessment of Hitler’s art, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle tattle

A cartoon turtle graced the Met’s Michelangelo exhibition last week – and Leonardo suffered a rather greater indignity at the Louvre

A show at Human Resources gallery leaves a lot to the imagination – because there’s nothing in it

Why Oliver Cromwell is in a spin at Westminster, Mona Hatoum’s pasta-based practice, and more

The latest recruit to the MFA Boston is a three-month-old puppy called Riley

Matt Hancock’s party vibes and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

Ontario is the place to head if you want to see the pop star’s running shoes

Justin Bieber takes up painting, an art-breaking first date, and Hans-Ulrich on the beach

The wacky Christmas decorations installed in London’s leading museums

The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre