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Baldessari is the latest star to appear in The Simpsons – in a flashback scene with cub reporter Marge Simpson

You read it right – an exhibition on Steve Bannon, that Renaissance man of the Alt-Right, is about to open in Rotterdam

When Henry Moore gave Barbara Hepworth the cold shoulder, plus the rest of last week’s arty tittle tattle

A rascal artist has doctored road signs in Oxfordshire to give directions to Narnia and Neverland

Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles’s watercolours

Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London

Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist

The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props

The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and ‘All Too Human’, why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle

You can’t show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met

Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer

London Fashion Week shuts down the National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess of Cambridge gets creative, and Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ invents a Museum of Great Britain

The Angel of the North may have been co-opted to sell baguettes in its time, but the north-east has undoubtedly come to love it

Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories

The appearance of Turner paintings on Dr. Martens bovver boots has some of the painter’s fan fulminating

Appy days for Matt Hancock, bitcoin art business, and a useful lesson from Maria Balshaw. Plus the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

Chris Brown’s rant at artists, Erykah Badu’s assessment of Hitler’s art, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle tattle

A cartoon turtle graced the Met’s Michelangelo exhibition last week – and Leonardo suffered a rather greater indignity at the Louvre

A show at Human Resources gallery leaves a lot to the imagination – because there’s nothing in it

Why Oliver Cromwell is in a spin at Westminster, Mona Hatoum’s pasta-based practice, and more