The football museum that is FIFA’s latest failure
FIFA shelled out millions on the new World Football Museum but it still looks set to attract fewer visitors this year than a Cristiano Ronaldo-themed museum
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The Bullingdon comes to the block; beauty and the beast of brutalism; a disaster in Lisbon; and an avian seance in a London gallery
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The David Bowie auction diet; introducing Picasso’s, erm, brown period; and Barbara Kruger’s failed Trump prophecy
Emojis are infiltrating art history… 😱
MoMA has acquired the original set of emojis and is set to put them on public display. But the emoji effect is visible in the Old Master world, too
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Halloween horrors hit museum’s social media accounts, Ai Weiwei gets sweary, and Grayson Perry takes aim at Rafael Vinoly
How US election art just keeps getting grosser…
First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby
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The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more
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Michael Gove ❤ art history; Mr. Turner’s lost masterpiece; Rod Stewart’s tour of the Royal Academy; and a topsy-turvy Matisse
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Educating the young ’uns at Frieze; art criticism from Donald Trump; Grayson Perry’s favourite hatchet jobs; and Middlesbrough’s #Squirrelgate
The Rake’s progress: Frieze special
Jeff Koons goes shopping, plus other Frieze week art happenings and ironic after-parties
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The latest from Snoop Dogg’s painting career; plus Tate’s buttocks are too sensitive for Twitter
Van Gogh gets a trance music soundtrack
The Van Gogh Museum is to launch a multimedia guide with DJ Armin van Buuren. The yellow house music, anyone?
David Shrigley gives Trafalgar Square the thumbs-up
Is David Shrigley‘s fourth-plinth sculpture sincere or satirical?
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The portraits of ‘Pricasso’; Vittorio Sgarbi takes aim at Swissair; the sartorial secrets of Simon de Pury; and John Cale’s debt to art
Remaking the Russian revolutionaries
Why is Stalin vaping and what does Karl Marx have in common with Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Putin’s man in Chechnya embraces the new chivalry
Ramzan Kadyrov is the latest figure to embrace the 2016 armour revival
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Inside the YBAs’ houses; educating Trump; and a drinky art fair director
The five key works of ‘Donaldism’ (so far)
Rakewell rounds up the best of the satirical art taking aim at Donald Trump
The Berlin nightclub that’s all about high culture – honest!
The Berghain has been recognised as a ‘high art’ institution. Museum directors will be pleased!
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A flutter on the next Tate boss; Bob Dylan’s casino gates; and the strange case of the missing Antony Gormley sculpture
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The Corens who do and don’t do art; Serpentine art speak; and is Banksy a trip hop legend?
The Holbein hand that hacked off Facebook
A Holbein study of Erasmus’s hand led to one user being suspended from Facebook – and he thinks there are ‘dark forces’ at work
Jilly Cooper’s bizarre attack on Grayson Perry
The novelist has taken aim at Grayson Perry in an interview – but does she have any idea what she’s talking about?
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Boozing with Ragnar Kjartansson; kittiwakes at the BM; and techno Tillmans
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