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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Boozing with Ragnar Kjartansson; kittiwakes at the BM; and techno Tillmans
Kara Walker’s best dance moves and other musical moments…
It’s been a month of pop/art collaborations, including Frank Ocean’s foray into art publishing, and Madonna’s tempting invitation to Art Basel Miami
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Marina Abramovic is apologetic, a very loose definition of ’Persian’, and Berlin’s pedestrians scandalise Ai Weiwei
The ghostbusters heading to a museum near you
Ghosthunters have been fishing for phantoms in a Lincolnshire museum – the latest in a long tradition of haunted museums
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Grayson Perry, restaurant critic, plus the rest of this week’s art world gossip
Jumpin’ Jack flash photography – and more Rolling Stones art
Bill Wyman’s photographs are about to go on show in London – and quite right, as the Stones have long had a love for the London gallery scene
Today’s episode of Donald Trump is brought to you by the letter T
Trump isn’t having much luck with his initial: first a logo that looked too dirty for Donald, now a T monument that has burnt down suspiciously
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artists providing airline security, an Olympic art blooper and looking for the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery
Will St Petersburg vote to make David decent?
A replica of Michelangelo’s David is too much for some St Petersburg residents. They’re voting this month on whether to cover him up
Hillary Clinton is a big sculpture fan. But how will she stomach this street art?
Clinton trumps her rival when it comes to backing the arts, but she may not be so keen on her recent appearance in a Melbourne mural
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A Leonardo for the nude selfie era; an art bandit on the loose in Edinburgh; and lunchtime at the Rauschenberg Foundation
The lows and highs of Olympic art
The Games have always been accompanied by some terrible art. Can Rio buck the trend?
The darling buds of Theresa May
The new prime minister’s rehang of 10 Downing Street will apparently see artworks replaced with quotations from her first speech in office
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A ‘cubist’ computer game; vegan art; and Matt Hancock gets to grips with being culture minister
William Eggleston and the sound of silence
The great photographer proves to be a man of few words – albeit with a grin – at a National Portrait Gallery event
‘Donaldism’ – a new art movement to give Trump the hump
There’s an enough anti-Donald work out there to dub a new artistic movement
We all have a Vincent in our lives, apparently…
Van Gogh lookalikes are taking over the asylum, or so it seems from Douglas Coupland’s latest project
It seems Ed Vaizey saw the writing on the wall...
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A David Bowie body-paint competition; a 91-year-old gets to grips with conceptual art; and farewell to Ed Vaizey
Museums are mad about Pokémon Go – literally
The British Museum seems up for some Pokémon related fun and games: Washington’s Holocaust Museum, understandably, less so…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Was Lady Liberty a man? Plus a museum dedicated to Prince, and the fine art of Milton Keynes
A rove around the Apollo summer party
Museum directors and macaroni, and what Grayson Perry’s teddy bear makes of Brexit
The Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
A Lancaster councillor has told museums they are ‘stuck in the past’. Plus a Game of Thrones art and Michel Houellebecq’s dead dog
’90s nostalgia is everywhere – and it’s coming for the art world next
Frieze will be turning its hand to exhibition reenactment this year
How are British artists bearing up? Not too well, it seems…
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
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