A decadent darling decamps from Twitter
Bougie London Literary Woman has sidled away from social media – for now. Rakewell rounds up some of her art-related tweets
A monumental mix-up in Aberdeenshire
Plus: Toto forever in the Namib Desert and art students in China face an overfamiliar exam
Olivia Colman’s royal capers and tapers
Critics have waxed lyrical about The Favourite – but spare a thought for the candle crew on set at Hatfield House
Jake Gyllenhaal and the horrors of contemporary art
Gyllenhaal plays a contemporary art critic in a forthcoming art-world satire that was inspired by a trip to Dia: Beacon
Bangers and cash – why currywurst has its own commemorative coin
Plus: the mysteries of Loic Gouzer and how a notorious art thief turned to drawing
The photoshop fails of your favourite politicians
The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history
Cutting criticism – a tale of Bendor Grosvenor’s cat
Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud
Hans Ulrich Obrist as you’ve never seen him before
Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake
Michael Cohen, captured for posterity
Plus: Jools Holland and his model railway, and how Monster Chetwynd got her name
The best of British booze culture – it’s the museum of Wetherspoons
The British pub chain has announced that it will develop a museum at a boozer in Wolverhampton
The leaning fir tree of Southampton
Britain is bedecked with Christmas trees once more – and this year’s surprise hit is a tilting trunk in Southampton
Fishy fragrances and Flemish still lifes
Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović
Vincent Van Gogh, young and old
A portrait photograph long thought to show Van Gogh turns out to depict his brother Theo
David Davis, the accidental Roman emperor
Plus: a street artist with a vendetta in LA and Jerry Saltz dresses up as Frida Kahlo
Michael Jackson’s moony marginalia
A copy of a self-help book once owned by Michael Jackson is up for auction – personalised by the King of Pop himself
A Boris blunder for the Museum of London
Plus: Picasso at Annabel’s and Donald Trump rides across a golden burger
A cat and mouse game at a museum in Japan
A feline farce at the Onomichi City Museum of Art has got social media purring
I’ve got a brush… Frank Sinatra’s paintings go under the hammer
Sotheby’s is selling a clutch of canvases by Old Blue Eyes – as well as a number of curious Sinatra souvenirs
A brush with Boris Johnson
A painter in London is inviting the public to get creative with her portrait of Boris Johnson – by making their own additions
A monumental mishandling of Mo Salah
Plus: selfie sabotage at a museum in Russia and Jim Carrey takes on Ted Cruz… with a painting
Oliver Cromwell as you’ve never seen him before… in his romper suit
The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon is displaying Cromwell artefacts that have never been shown in public before – including his baby clothes
Cashing in on Brexit with a new 50p coin
Plus: the poison pen of Alex Katz and the dangling doodles of Keith Richards
A lot of love making, Your Honour
A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover once owned by the judge who presided over the novel’s obscenity trial is up for auction
Lil Wayne’s birthday present saves an art student’s bacon
A commission to make a necklace for the rapper comes in the nick of time. Plus: David Byrne’s sceptical reaction to a sculpture by Carsten Höller
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