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Sophie Calle has persuaded some of the biggest names in music to pay tribute to her dead cat
The National, Jarvis Cocker, Pharrell and Bono are among the musicians the artist has corralled
The museum that’s going out of its way to make you queasy
A display of disgusting food is about to open in Malmo. Plus: fluffy floors in Athens and the aphrodisiac art of Olafur Eliasson
Why David is washing his dirty laundry in public
The white goods specialists at Samsung have plonked the world’s most famous sculpture on top of a washing machine
Matilda at 30 – still top of the class and now standing up to Donald Trump
Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture
Lots of bother… as Bez rigs Bargain Hunt
Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
UK culture secretary abandons his projection
Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense
The collector who says he’s sending artists to the moon
Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure
Emmanuel Macron gets taken for a mug
Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe
Everything must glow – Nicky Wire is having his first solo show
The Manic Street Preachers bassist is showing mixed media works in Pembrokeshire – and he’s not the first bass-player to have a sideline in art
Van Gogh in the shopping mall
Replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings are on a tour of major retail centres in the US. Plus: art on the loose in Toledo and Kanye goes back to school
William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)
The Shallow Grave actor is to play Hogarth in a new play in London. Plus Lucian Freud on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Iggy Pop eats Andy Warhol’s hamburger
How a Scottish chemist was immortalised in St Petersburg – by mistake
The city of St Petersburg seems to have commissioned a statue of the wrong man
Art lovers fail to stump up for Farage
Nigel on canvas could have been yours for £25k at the Royal Academy this summer. The work went unsold
David Beckham picks up the paintbrush
Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City
In Brussels, where the streets have new names
A competition to name 28 streets has come up with some surprisingly sensible and delightfully silly choices
A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument
Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara
Your chance to own Rod Stewart’s sofa!
Rod Stewart is to sell part of his antiques collection. Plus art-shaming Kardashians and the V&A in knickers
Soap and glory at the Uri Geller Museum
Uri Geller is to open a museum in Jaffa, Israel, next year – and his psychic powers, or at least an archaeological team, have led to a discovery on site
Now it’s Cate Blanchett’s turn to spoof Marina Abramović
Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!
The artist who can’t get enough of the Coen brothers
Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)
Battle of the bargains – Pulp and the Happy Mondays head on the antiques trail
Jarvis Cocker and Bez are to appear with bandmates from Pulp and the Happy Mondays in an episode of Bargain Hunt
Art goes AWOL at the Palace of Westminster
Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
How a not-so-rude Rubens fazed Facebook
The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he’s a fan of Harry Styles
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