Apollo's wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. Got a story for Rakewell? Email rakewell@apollomag.com. Follow @Rakewelltweets.
Plus: Toto forever in the Namib Desert and art students in China face an overfamiliar exam
Critics have waxed lyrical about The Favourite – but spare a thought for the candle crew on set at Hatfield House
Gyllenhaal plays a contemporary art critic in a forthcoming art-world satire that was inspired by a trip to Dia: Beacon
Plus: the mysteries of Loic Gouzer and how a notorious art thief turned to drawing
The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history
Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud
Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake
Plus: Jools Holland and his model railway, and how Monster Chetwynd got her name
The British pub chain has announced that it will develop a museum at a boozer in Wolverhampton
Britain is bedecked with Christmas trees once more – and this year’s surprise hit is a tilting trunk in Southampton
