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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tittle-tattle and curiosities from the art and museum worlds
Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!
Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected
How to get your art-history fix at the Edinburgh Fringe
There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
The curious case of Microsoft Paint
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
Macron goes large for his official photo
The French president has upset local mayors by messing around with the format of his official photograph
Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
The London museum having a whale of a time
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Brooklyn Beckham’s photo nasties and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
How Bubbles the Chimp picked up the paintbrush
The chimp that was once Michael Jackson’s pet monkey has taken up painting in its retirement
Why angry letters are flying about in North Korea
The DPRK has released a series of stamps taking aim American targets
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Maria Balshaw’s matching socks – and the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
The art of group sauna sessions
What links a trip to the sauna and some of the UK’s leading art institutions?
The rocky art of international relations
A public art installation in Albania has just been condemned by the Greek government
The Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
Has Goldie outed Banksy? Did Andy Warhol get in John McEnroe’s way; and is Sean Spicer pleased with his likeness?
The not-so-super model of Kate Moss
For £25,000, you can own a hyperreal, platinum silicone model of Kate Moss
The microbes and moths munching on your favourite artworks
Monuments and artworks are at threat from microbes – if the moths don’t get them, that is
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
From Brian Sewell to Justin Bieber, the best of last week’s tittle-tattle from the art world
The fine art of avocados
Artists have always been obsessed with fruit – but avocado art might be taking things too far
Why your sports shoes could be worth a fortune
A pair of self-lacing trainers has sold at auction for more than $50,000 dollars. Could you be standing on a fortune?
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