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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Italian scientists claim art is a stress buster, while the staff of a London gallery have been told to put their feet up. Rakewell has his doubts…

Rakewell

24 Apr 2016

Rakewell

The spirit of the Renaissance, via YouTube

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Rakewell

21 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Has Tate Modern secretly switched directors?

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Rakewell

18 Apr 2016

Rakewell

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The garden bridge gets hijacked on Twitter. Plus, how Damien Hirst like his fish cooked (clue: he’s fussy)

Rakewell

18 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Found in Florence! The lost tribe of Leonardo

Rakewell likes nothing better than a good bit of amateur genealogy

Rakewell

17 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Handbags at dawn! Plans to install a statue of Margaret Thatcher have been quashed!

Mrs Thatcher’s missing handbag and the case of the disappearing duck

Rakewell ponders two statues in London that have come in for criticism because they are missing vital accessories

Rakewell

13 Apr 2016

Rakewell

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

David Shrigley’s foam hands, Olafur Eliasson’s shaky economics and a chance to buy Andy Warhol’s studio

Rakewell

12 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Pencils, irons and used underwear: the world’s wackiest museums

Whatever your thing, says Rakewell, there’s a museum for you out there somewhere

Rakewell

8 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Zac Goldsmith isn't the only mayoral candidate to have been left floundering this week by his ignorance of the city’s museums

The museum pratfalls of London’s mayoral candidates (yep, Zac AND Sadiq)

Neither Zac Goldsmith nor Sadiq Khan seem to know a thing about the capital’s museums

Rakewell

5 Apr 2016

Rakewell

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…

Rakewell

4 Apr 2016

Rakewell

How Brazilian fowl play has left a Dutch artist spitting feathers

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman claims that Brazilian protesters have plagiarised his inflatable rubber duck.

Rakewell

2 Apr 2016

Rakewell

Narcissism helps to sell art? Explains why contemporary artists love mirrors so much

Top artists are narcissists. It’s official (sort of)

An academic paper claims you can tell an artist’s vanity by the size of their signature. Well, maybe.

Rakewell

30 Mar 2016

Rakewell

Dr Who isn’t the only art-historical lookalike out there – here are four more of the best

Rakewell picks out his favourite lookalikes in historical paintings, from David Cameron to Sylvester Stallone

Rakewell

28 Mar 2016

Rakewell

When politicians paint over their mistakes

Iain Duncan Smith once said that oil painting was like politics – because you could easily paint over your mistakes. Rakewell picks out a few politicians who have done just that

Rakewell

22 Mar 2016

Rakewell

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Why has Arsène Wenger slipped in to artspeak? Plus a dog that can paint and more yet more art pouting from Kanye West

Rakewell

20 Mar 2016

Rakewell

The pop art that should never have reached the recording studio

From Joseph Beuys to Dinos Chapman, the artists who have turned to music but should never have hit the studio

Rakewell

18 Mar 2016

Rakewell

UNESCO gears up for a pizza party

The Neapolitan dough boys have applied for protected status for pizza through UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage scheme

Rakewell

17 Mar 2016

Rakewell

I hate Frieze. It’s a tent. In a park. That sells art. Not a cultural phenomenon

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The Steve Lazarides effect, at home with Elton John and his collection, and the Museum of Broken Relationships heads to LA

Rakewell

13 Mar 2016

Rakewell

When restoration goes wrong. Very wrong.

The only near comparable disaster that sprung to mind was Saddam Hussein’s reconstruction of Babylon

Rakewell

11 Mar 2016

Rakewell

Creative Scotland’s journey to the undertaker

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Rakewell

10 Mar 2016

Rakewell

Sir Anish Kapoor toys with the dark arts

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…

Rakewell

7 Mar 2016

Rakewell

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…

Rakewell

6 Mar 2016

Rakewell

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

Rakewell

4 Mar 2016

Rakewell

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

Rakewell

2 Mar 2016

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