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Take the second exit to Narnia…

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

23 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

20 Mar 2018

A bigger gnash: when Dennis the Menace met David Hockney

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

18 Mar 2018
A Barbie doll depicting late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, is exhibited – alongside other commercial products – at her sister's house in the neighborhood of Coyoacan, Mexico City,on April 19, 2018. Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images

How Barbie failed Frida Kahlo

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

18 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump’s share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe’s divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.

15 Mar 2018

At last! Prince Edward has become an artwork

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

11 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

6 Mar 2018

A nude causes a fuss on Facebook (again) – but clothes are making mischief at the Met

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

2 Mar 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

28 Feb 2018
Jeremy Bentham at University College London.

Jeremy Bentham hops across the pond

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

23 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

20 Feb 2018
A general view of the Angel of the North on February 3, 2012 in Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Angel delight? Twenty years of the Angel of the North

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

16 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

13 Feb 2018

The Tate puts the boot into Turner

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

9 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

6 Feb 2018

A Valentine’s gift to melt your heart – perhaps

Valentine’s Day looks set to bring its usual mad merchandise – which this year, includes an unnervingly realistic chocolate heart

2 Feb 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

31 Jan 2018

Michelangelo comes out of his shell at the Met

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

29 Jan 2018

Why there’s absolutely nothing to see at an exhibition in LA

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

28 Jan 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

22 Jan 2018
A detail from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of King Harold

How the Bayeux Tapestry had Twitter in stitches

The proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry has made for some, erm, creative threads on social media

19 Jan 2018
Timothy Spall as J.M.W. Turner in 'Mr Turner' (2014). Image courtesy Entertainment One

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Timothy Spall plays another painter, a Rauschenberg is at risk, and Steve Lazarides in praise of bluffing

18 Jan 2018
Life of Riley: the MFA mutt makes his first media appearance

Why an art hound is sniffing around the MFA Boston

The latest recruit to the MFA Boston is a three-month-old puppy called Riley

14 Jan 2018

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Matt Hancock’s party vibes and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle

10 Jan 2018