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The barbs of Francis Bacon, an auction of VIP hotel doors, and an artistic slanging match between Chicago and Houston
Baldessari is the latest star to appear in The Simpsons – in a flashback scene with cub reporter Marge Simpson
You read it right – an exhibition on Steve Bannon, that Renaissance man of the Alt-Right, is about to open in Rotterdam
When Henry Moore gave Barbara Hepworth the cold shoulder, plus the rest of last week's arty tittle tattle
A rascal artist has doctored road signs in Oxfordshire to give directions to Narnia and Neverland
Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles's watercolours
Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London
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
