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Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist
Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump's share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe's divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.
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
