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?
The Louvre goes to the movies (again)
Wonder Woman now works at the Louvre… but will her curatorial credentials spare her bad reviews?
The street artists getting bashed by bishops and bureaucrats
Invader and Bansky have stirred up authorities in Spain and the UK this week
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite painter; a night in the Rijksmuseum; a Varsity match for trainspotters
The cats that have the art world purring
Cats are probably taking over an institution near you
Fear not! Museums are on hand to decipher Trump’s tweets
What is the President talking about when he invokes ‘Covfefe’?
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tracey Emin gets bored of her peers; artists and salad; and Pamela Anderson’s favourite museum
The artists’ posters and posteriors aimed at Theresa May
Posters scoffing at Theresa May’s favourite slogan have appeared across London
Are artists taking the fun out of funfairs?
A fairground designed by Claudia Comte is set to be installed outside Art Basel
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Auerbach’s lighter side; Eddie Izzard’s fear of fine art; and more tittle-tattle from around the art world
The Nigel Farage commemorative plate
An artist has depicted Nigel Farage’s plane crash on a plate. UKIP says ‘Meh’.
The fine art of losing elections
Hillary Clinton’s hubristic confetti and Ed Milliband’s garden sculpture
The Rake’s Progress: the Venice Biennale in gossip
A round-up of last week’s art world tittle-tattle
Why North Korea is mad about monuments
The North Korean regime has banned foreigners from visiting monuments to the Kim dynasty
Eight of the wackiest biennale titles (so far)
Eight of the stranger biennial concepts of recent years
Ed Sheeran has a Van Gogh moment
A portrait of the singer-songwriter has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London
The stunt artist who ticked all the boxes at the Met Gala
Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich pitched up at the Met Gala naked – and in a sealed box
Beauty and the (dying) beasts
A dead bull is causing trouble in Tasmania, while Damien Hirst has been accused of mass murder (of houseflies)
The nude Archimedes making trouble in Hampshire
A naked statue of Archimedes has provoked a complaint in an English village
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?