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: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense
Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure
Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe
The Manic Street Preachers bassist is showing mixed media works in Pembrokeshire – and he’s not the first bass-player to have a sideline in art
Replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings are on a tour of major retail centres in the US. Plus: art on the loose in Toledo and Kanye goes back to school
The Shallow Grave actor is to play Hogarth in a new play in London. Plus Lucian Freud on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Iggy Pop eats Andy Warhol’s hamburger
The city of St Petersburg seems to have commissioned a statue of the wrong man
Nigel on canvas could have been yours for £25k at the Royal Academy this summer. The work went unsold
Plus: why a Trump teddy bear might be heading to a museum in Atlantic City
