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The contents of the late scientist’s office are heading to the Science Museum in London – and it’s not the first workspace to be preserved in this way
Heston Blumenthal’s homage to the famous dish is served up in the V&A’s Alice in Wonderland show
A band of dynamic dinosaurs is arriving in the UK this summer – but will they be a match for the Victorian sculptures at Crystal Palace Park?
A town in Japan has spent coronavirus relief funds on a giant squid sculpture – a fine addition to the tradition of squid art, says Rakewell
A team of Basque chocolatiers has made a life-size replica of Picasso’s monochrome masterpiece
For five days the South Kensington museum has reopened as a supermarket, stocked with artist-designed essentials
A museum devoted to the instant noodle has opened in Hong Kong – but it’s not the first time that ramen has been put to creative uses
Rakewell suspects that Leonardo would have loved the invention of film and TV, but what would he have made of Aidan Turner, aka Ross Poldark, playing him?
Yes, it's happened – a leading art collection is now available on a food delivery app
Sacha Jafri's vast canvas may have fetched $62m, but it also landed him in hospital – and he’s not the first artist to have suffered a work-related injury