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A wax museum in Boston has been widely ridiculed – just look at their effigies of the Royal Family!
The French footballer-cum-actor has his heart set on opening a museum in Sardinia
Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy
Visitors get too close to an Yves Klein, and an 800-year-old sarcophagus is the scene of a strange photo shoot
Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst's bronzes, and an artist objects to 'Broadchurch'
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
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
