Rakewell

Apollo's wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. Got a story for Rakewell? Email rakewell@apollomag.com. Follow @Rakewelltweets.

Why your sports shoes could be worth a fortune

A pair of self-lacing trainers has sold at auction for more than $50,000 dollars. Could you be standing on a fortune?

16 Jun 2017

The Louvre goes to the movies (again)

Wonder Woman now works at the Louvre… but will her curatorial credentials spare her bad reviews?

11 Jun 2017

The street artists getting bashed by bishops and bureaucrats

Invader and Bansky have stirred up authorities in Spain and the UK this week

8 Jun 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite painter; a night in the Rijksmuseum; a Varsity match for trainspotters

6 Jun 2017

The cats that have the art world purring

Cats are probably taking over an institution near you

2 Jun 2017

Fear not! Museums are on hand to decipher Trump’s tweets

What is the President talking about when he invokes ‘Covfefe’?

31 May 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Tracey Emin gets bored of her peers; artists and salad; and Pamela Anderson’s favourite museum

31 May 2017

The artists’ posters and posteriors aimed at Theresa May

Posters scoffing at Theresa May’s favourite slogan have appeared across London

27 May 2017

Are artists taking the fun out of funfairs?

A fairground designed by Claudia Comte is set to be installed outside Art Basel

25 May 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Auerbach’s lighter side; Eddie Izzard’s fear of fine art; and more tittle-tattle from around the art world

23 May 2017

The Nigel Farage commemorative plate

An artist has depicted Nigel Farage’s plane crash on a plate. UKIP says ‘Meh’.

20 May 2017

The fine art of losing elections

Hillary Clinton’s hubristic confetti and Ed Milliband’s garden sculpture

18 May 2017

The Rake’s Progress: the Venice Biennale in gossip

A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle

16 May 2017

The Mansudae Grand Monument, huge statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images

Why North Korea is mad about monuments

The North Korean regime has banned foreigners from visiting monuments to the Kim dynasty

13 May 2017

Eight of the wackiest biennale titles (so far)

Eight of the stranger biennial concepts of recent years

11 May 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle

9 May 2017

Ed Sheeran (2016), Colin Davidson. © Colin Davidson

Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment

A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London

7 May 2017

The stunt artist who ticked all the boxes at the Met Gala

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich pitched up at the Met Gala naked – and in a sealed box

4 May 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle

2 May 2017

Hermann Nitsch (detail)

Beauty and the (dying) beasts

A dead bull is causing trouble in Tasmania, while Damien Hirst has been accused of mass murder (of houseflies)

28 Apr 2017

The nude Archimedes making trouble in Hampshire

A naked statue of Archimedes has provoked a complaint in an English village

25 Apr 2017

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle

25 Apr 2017

Macron à Mont-Sainte Victoire

The French presidential candidates avoiding French art

Pluralist Emmanuel Macron came under fire for saying he’s never seen any French art

21 Apr 2017

A bundle of bungles at the Museum of Failure

A museum dedicated to disastrous products and ideas is set to open in Sweden

21 Apr 2017

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