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The items that furnished Uncle Monty’s apartment in ‘Withnail and I’ have proved quite the draw at auction
The Tate has announced a new commission to respond to its racist mural but why would any artist accept?
As a triptych comes to auction, Rakewell wonders if we have finally found an artist whose talent is unquestionable
Rakewell revels in the latest interiors shoot of the actor’s house, but is there an ugly truth behind the beautiful surface?
Rakewell wonders whether Pantone’s ’Color of the Year 2022’ might not belong more comfortably to an earlier era
Rakewell pays tribute to the late, great Marvin Lee Aday, who combined art forms with an originality matched only by Richard Wagner
After the hammer attack on Eric Gill’s statue of ‘Prospero and Ariel’, Rakewell reflects upon other artworks that have seized the imagination of vandals
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Like many of the most notorious trials of modern times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has been summed up by a skilful courtroom sketch artist
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
