Rakewell

The wacky Christmas decorations installed in London’s leading museums

The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre

A cheap date with Martin Parr, Damien Hirst CBE (or not), and a very meaty recipe for mince pies

An exhibition dedicated to Abba at the Southbank Centre recreates some gloomy rooms from the 1970s

Celebs at Art Basel Miami Beach, Ai Weiwei’s problem with German, and Peter Hitchens pans his portrait

The artistic tastes of Britain’s spies, Prince Harry’s museum dance, Damien Hirst’s shopping habits and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle

Artist Mikes Poppe has been cut from a block of marble that he chained himself to 19 days ago

…And Rakewell hopes that Paris Hilton takes her rightful place in its display (erm, honest)

Jake Gyllenhaal turns art critic, the better side of Cristiano Ronaldo and the artistic love of Yannis Varoufakis

In Illinois, a nugget of fast-food heritage is set to be demolished

The art of the sausage roll, Terence Conran’s childhood, and Eric Cantona’s little pen and notebook

Advertising posters bearing nude sketches by Egon Schiele were deemed too racy for London’s commuters

Visitors to the Salisbury Museum will be privy to a new fundraising campaign from ‘World Toilet Day’

Big bucks for a Britney Spears painting, Van Gogh’s grasshopper, and absinthe at the National Gallery

Jon Snow’s jazzy neckwear has a display of its own at the Design Museum in London

Cindy Sherman spurns selfies and Tracey Emin takes aim at Theresa May

…And who ‘hacked’ the State Tretyakov Gallery’s Twitter account last week?

Minnesota merchandise, Barbara Kruger on the metro, and John Humphry’s porridge

Pop-up ‘museums of ice cream’ are a hit in California – but some locals are giving them the cold shoulder

For the second time this year, a doodle by Donald has fetched thousands of dollars at auction

A trashy installation in Aspen, Bath on Botox, and Prince’s dancing shoes at the V&A

An apparently innocuous painting is terrifying the good folk of the Midlands

The last major Tintin work by Hergé goes under the hammer this weekend. Can it beat Asterix’s astronomical prices?