William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)
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
How a Scottish chemist was immortalised in St Petersburg – by mistake
The city of St Petersburg seems to have commissioned a statue of the wrong man
Art lovers fail to stump up for Farage
Nigel on canvas could have been yours for £25k at the Royal Academy this summer. The work went unsold
David Beckham picks up the paintbrush
Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City
In Brussels, where the streets have new names
A competition to name 28 streets has come up with some surprisingly sensible and delightfully silly choices
A prehistoric DJ makes his debut at a neolithic monument
Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara
Your chance to own Rod Stewart’s sofa!
Rod Stewart is to sell part of his antiques collection. Plus art-shaming Kardashians and the V&A in knickers
Soap and glory at the Uri Geller Museum
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
Now it’s Cate Blanchett’s turn to spoof Marina Abramović
Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!
The artist who can’t get enough of the Coen brothers
Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)
Battle of the bargains – Pulp and the Happy Mondays head on the antiques trail
Jarvis Cocker and Bez are to appear with bandmates from Pulp and the Happy Mondays in an episode of Bargain Hunt
Art goes AWOL at the Palace of Westminster
Works go for a wander from the Parliamentary Art Collection, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
How a not-so-rude Rubens fazed Facebook
The Facebook flesh police took umbrage at a painting by Rubens that features the crucified Christ in a loincloth
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Timothée Chalamet becomes an art-world icon and Theaster Gates reveals he’s a fan of Harry Styles
Sacha Baron Cohen sends up the art world (again)
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
Public art goes prehistoric in London
A pop-up monument to commemorate 25 years since the release of Jurassic Park has appeared in London – and yes, it’s terrifying
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Metro stations celebrate France’s footballers, the former Tory MP who met Andy Warhol, and a curious job advert from MoMA
Parliament Square has a new sculpture (for two hours)
The Trump baby balloon takes flight in Parliament Square. Should it be in a sculpture park?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Flag wags, Madonna at the National Portrait Gallery, and why Gareth Southgate’s waistcoat might be heading to the Museum of London
Nick Cave as you’ve never seen him before – cast in bronze and on horseback
The residents of a town in Victoria are hoping that a bronze Nick Cave will become a visitor attraction
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Ed Vaizey does the floss dance, Germaine Greer takes aim at art in schools and Vincent van Gogh gets his own beer
St George is cross, probably
An amateur restoration job on a sculpture in Estella, northern Spain, has become an internet sensation
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Ronaldo as a Russian general, Victoria Beckham and the Old Masters, and a bashing for Baselitz
The Palermo pizzeria for those Manifesta munchies
A ‘Renoir’ pizza could be just the thing after perusing some of Manifesta‘s more offbeat installations
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