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.
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
Jim Carrey's paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby's restaurant; and the rest of last week's arty tittle-tattle
John Currin seems to have come over all coy in his portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
International Cat Day clashes with Dogs in Paintings Day on Twitter. Which has really set the cat among the pigeons...
Tittle-tattle and curiosities from the art and museum worlds
Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected
There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week's arty tittle-tattle
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
