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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
Macron goes large for his official photo
The French president has upset local mayors by messing around with the format of his official photograph
Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
The London museum having a whale of a time
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Brooklyn Beckham’s photo nasties and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
How Bubbles the Chimp picked up the paintbrush
The chimp that was once Michael Jackson’s pet monkey has taken up painting in its retirement
Why angry letters are flying about in North Korea
The DPRK has released a series of stamps taking aim American targets
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Maria Balshaw’s matching socks – and the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
The art of group sauna sessions
What links a trip to the sauna and some of the UK’s leading art institutions?
The rocky art of international relations
A public art installation in Albania has just been condemned by the Greek government
The Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
Has Goldie outed Banksy? Did Andy Warhol get in John McEnroe’s way; and is Sean Spicer pleased with his likeness?
The not-so-super model of Kate Moss
For £25,000, you can own a hyperreal, platinum silicone model of Kate Moss
The microbes and moths munching on your favourite artworks
Monuments and artworks are at threat from microbes – if the moths don’t get them, that is
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
From Brian Sewell to Justin Bieber, the best of last week’s tittle-tattle from the art world
The fine art of avocados
Artists have always been obsessed with fruit – but avocado art might be taking things too far
Why your sports shoes could be worth a fortune
A pair of self-lacing trainers has sold at auction for more than $50,000 dollars. Could you be standing on a fortune?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
The Louvre goes to the movies (again)
Wonder Woman now works at the Louvre… but will her curatorial credentials spare her bad reviews?
The street artists getting bashed by bishops and bureaucrats
Invader and Bansky have stirred up authorities in Spain and the UK this week
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite painter; a night in the Rijksmuseum; a Varsity match for trainspotters
The cats that have the art world purring
Cats are probably taking over an institution near you
Fear not! Museums are on hand to decipher Trump’s tweets
What is the President talking about when he invokes ‘Covfefe’?
The many faces of Mary Magdalene