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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

31 Aug 2018

David Beckham picks up the paintbrush

Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City

30 Aug 2018
A view of Brussels' Justice Palace (C). Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

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

24 Aug 2018
Sunrise at Stonehenge in June 2018. Photo: GEOFF CADDICK/AFP/Getty Images

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

22 Aug 2018

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

17 Aug 2018

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

16 Aug 2018

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!

11 Aug 2018

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)

7 Aug 2018

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

5 Aug 2018

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

31 Jul 2018
The Descent from the Cross (1611–14; detail), Peter Paul Rubens.

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

25 Jul 2018
Shiny Tim: Chalamet with a fruit basket

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

24 Jul 2018

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

20 Jul 2018

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

19 Jul 2018

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

17 Jul 2018

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?

13 Jul 2018

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

10 Jul 2018

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

6 Jul 2018
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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

4 Jul 2018

St George is cross, probably

An amateur restoration job on a sculpture in Estella, northern Spain, has become an internet sensation

28 Jun 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Ronaldo as a Russian general, Victoria Beckham and the Old Masters, and a bashing for Baselitz

26 Jun 2018

The Palermo pizzeria for those Manifesta munchies

A ‘Renoir’ pizza could be just the thing after perusing some of Manifesta‘s more offbeat installations

24 Jun 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Beyonce and Jay-Z take over the Louvre, Kurt Cobain in Co. Kildare, and why Olafur Eliasson is teaming up with Ikea

21 Jun 2018

Funny business in the world of stamps

American philatelists with a nose for novelty can now get their hands on scratch n’sniff stamps. And is Royal Mail having a laugh with its Dad’s Army set?

14 Jun 2018