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Immaterial girl – Madonna enters the metaverse
Madonna was once NSFW. Now, thanks to Beeple, she has turned herself into an NFT
Roy Keane’s long road to respectability
The winning entry in the inaugural Football Art Prize depicts Roy Keane in sombre mood, but Rakewell still treasures the player-turned-pundit’s more devilish side
A question for Viola Davis: what is the world without critics?
Following Viola Davis’ recent claim that critics serve no purpose, Rakewell asks the actor to reconsider their role as champions of the overlooked
Peacockery – the male artists vying for attention at the Venice Biennale
Rakewell finds that Cecilia Alemani’s focus on women artists at the Venice Biennale is ruffling a few feathers among the males of the species
The long shadow of the long sword
After recent revelations about the inspirations behind ‘The Northman’, Rakewell regards its director Robert Eggers as a man of refined sensibilities
The most important art collector on TV
Rakewell marvels at HBO’s surprisingly true-to-life portrayal of the obsessive art collector in pursuit of a Jean Royère pepper shaker
The art historian who became a Viking
Rakewell applauds Ghislaine Wood, deputy of director of the Sainsbury Centre and now the proud Godmother of a Viking longship
Fear and loathing at Chatsworth House
Rakewell wonders what to make of the artists of Burning Man festival taking over Capability Brown’s idyllic landscape in Derbyshire
Is Anna Sorokin bringing prison art back in vogue?
The scammer of the art world has now joined its ranks – but how does the work she has made in jail measure up to the great prison art of the past?
Whatever happened to Bruce Wayne’s good taste?
Robert Pattinson’s caped crusader has a fine line in leather boots – but, alas, none of his forebears’ flair for home decoration
Richard Gere gets in touch with his spiritual side
The film star has spoken of the spiritual qualities of the photographs in his collection, but that hasn’t stopped him from putting them up for auction
Uncle Monty, auction darling
The items that furnished Uncle Monty’s apartment in ‘Withnail and I’ have proved quite the draw at auction
Who would take on the Tate’s Rex Whistler mural?
The Tate has announced a new commission to respond to its racist mural but why would any artist accept?
Is Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the 20th century?
As a triptych comes to auction, Rakewell wonders if we have finally found an artist whose talent is unquestionable
Gwyneth Paltrow’s inspiration
Rakewell revels in the latest interiors shoot of the actor’s house, but is there an ugly truth behind the beautiful surface?
Oh Pantone, why so blue?
Rakewell wonders whether Pantone’s ’Color of the Year 2022’ might not belong more comfortably to an earlier era
A total artist – in memoriam Meat Loaf
Rakewell pays tribute to the late, great Marvin Lee Aday, who combined art forms with an originality matched only by Richard Wagner
Art attack – when vandals strike
After the hammer attack on Eric Gill’s statue of ‘Prospero and Ariel’, Rakewell reflects upon other artworks that have seized the imagination of vandals
Hollywood’s Waterloo – the art of playing Napoleon
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Drawn with conviction – a brief history of courtroom art
Like many of the most notorious trials of modern times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has been summed up by a skilful courtroom sketch artist
The art of Christmas parties
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
What Stephen Sondheim saw in Georges Seurat
The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement
The culture ministers who really are culture vultures
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
Gal Gadot turns to art crime, with The Rock in hot pursuit
’Red Notice’ may not be most sophisticated heist film, but it’s hard to resist The Rock on the trail of Wonder Woman
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