Rakewell

Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world

It’s your chance to own part of the Louvre – and spruce up your backyard with plants of impeccable provenance

The original foyer doors of Abbey Road Studios are up for auction – which isn’t quite the same as owning the zebra crossing, but still

The hit French series on Netflix sees the Paris museum’s security breached in spectacular fashion – but stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 couldn’t have been easier

A meme of Bernie at the inauguration has (predictably) seen the senator popping up in everyone’s favourite paintings

Charlotte York-Goldenblatt stepped away from her career in the original series, but perhaps she’s ready to return to the white cube in this year’s reboot?

It is perhaps unsurprising that a show that takes such a creative approach to costume drama plays fast and loose with its locations

A cameo in the BBC’s His Dark Materials adaptation leads Rakewell to reflect on other fictional appearances of the museum over the years

It has been a good week for outsize dogs in Turkmenistan and a huge week for good dogs in Delaware

Rakewell reports on a remarkable fluke outside the Dutch city

News that pet owners have more faith in doggy heaven than ever before leads Rakewell on a trip down memorial lane

From post Impressionist painting to 20th-century toys, the humble potato has caught the imagination of many an artist – and infant cubist

The gallery is paying homage to the famous wartime concerts organised by Myra Hess with a series of performances – with no audiences, alas

As runners in the London Marathon prepare to make 19 loops of St James’s Park, Rakewell delves into the sporting provenance of the park

It’s the mutt-see show of the year (if you’re a dog) – an architectural playground just for you (again, if you’re a dog) at Japan House London

If you’ve ever wanted to play president, now you can – if you have a few dollars spare to buy a replica of the Oval Office at Bonhams in October

The T.S. Eliot estate has donated £20,000 to help keep the Brontë Parsonage Museum open. Rakewell wonders what the Brontë sisters would have made of ‘Cats’