Rakewell
We all have a Vincent in our lives, apparently…
Van Gogh lookalikes are taking over the asylum, or so it seems from Douglas Coupland’s latest project
It seems Ed Vaizey saw the writing on the wall...
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A David Bowie body-paint competition; a 91-year-old gets to grips with conceptual art; and farewell to Ed Vaizey
Museums are mad about Pokémon Go – literally
The British Museum seems up for some Pokémon related fun and games: Washington’s Holocaust Museum, understandably, less so…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Was Lady Liberty a man? Plus a museum dedicated to Prince, and the fine art of Milton Keynes
A rove around the Apollo summer party
Museum directors and macaroni, and what Grayson Perry’s teddy bear makes of Brexit
The Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
A Lancaster councillor has told museums they are ‘stuck in the past’. Plus a Game of Thrones art and Michel Houellebecq’s dead dog
’90s nostalgia is everywhere – and it’s coming for the art world next
Frieze will be turning its hand to exhibition reenactment this year
How are British artists bearing up? Not too well, it seems…
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
The art world unites against Brexit, in its own way
As the EU referendum arrives, Rakewell rounds up the art world response – which includes some wacky works
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Lionel Richie, artist’s muse, plus the Tate’s retail adventure
More than a game? The art of Euro 2016
Florian Nicolle’s ESPN posters for Euro 2016 leave Rakewell to ponder national characteristics
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Chipperfield’s grand anti-Brexit gesture falls flat; Marc Quinn pledges his services to orchids; and Picasso washes up on the beach
Monkey business comes to Art Basel
Guests at the art fair’s private view on Monday are in for a wild night…
The submerged city that turns out to be, erm, a load of guff
Archaeologists inform a Greek hotel owner that he has not in fact discovered an Atlantean wonder off a Greek island
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
An unsightly selfie statue, Lego gets taken to pieces, and trouble at the Jack the Ripper Museum
A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.
It’s culture vs the UK culture secretary in the Great British Brexit Debate
Artists and cultural figures have declared themselves for the ‘In’ campaign. Must make for some tricky meetings with the culture secretary…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A prank ‘artwork’ at SFMOMA, and art thieves caught on camera in Madrid
Coronation Street joins the northern renaissance
A Coronation Street character is heading to art school. What’s next, the Turner Prize?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Victoria Beckham gets the Venus de Milo treatment; what Dubya’s family think of his painting; and the Pont des Arts minus the padlocks
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Sainsbury’s bid to employ an artist (for free); love in the Tate Modern carpark; and Fearne Cotton’s art for the apiarists
Gun sculpture silenced in trigger-happy Texas
A university museum in Houston has removed a revolver from an artwork critical of Texan gun culture – and Rakewell is baffled by the decision
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The high-school pottery that fooled an antiques expert, Darth Vader hits the museums, and an artist who has removed his nipples in, erm, the name of art
Pills, thrills and (musical) bellyaches: lunch, the Damien Hirst way
Rakewell enjoys lunches Damien Hirst’s new Pharmacy 2 restaurant – if only the waiters would provide earplugs to drown out the ’90s soundtrack
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