Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture
Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense
Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure
Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe
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
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
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
The city of St Petersburg seems to have commissioned a statue of the wrong man
Nigel on canvas could have been yours for £25k at the Royal Academy this summer. The work went unsold
Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City
A competition to name 28 streets has come up with some surprisingly sensible and delightfully silly choices
Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara
Rod Stewart is to sell part of his antiques collection. Plus art-shaming Kardashians and the V&A in knickers
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
Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!
Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)
Jarvis Cocker and Bez are to appear with bandmates from Pulp and the Happy Mondays in an episode of Bargain Hunt
Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth
Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he's a fan of Harry Styles
In his new show, What is America?, the comedian foists some pungent art on a gallerist in California. It's not the first time he's fooled the art world
A pop-up monument to commemorate 25 years since the release of Jurassic Park has appeared in London – and yes, it’s terrifying
Metro stations celebrate France's footballers, the former Tory MP who met Andy Warhol, and a curious job advert from MoMA
