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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
A competition to name 28 streets has come up with some surprisingly sensible and delightfully silly choices
Paul Oakenfold is the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge. Plus Alex Katz remembers the frank criticism of Frank O’Hara
Rod Stewart is to sell part of his antiques collection. Plus art-shaming Kardashians and the V&A in knickers
Uri Geller is to open a museum in Jaffa, Israel, next year – and his psychic powers, or at least an archaeological team, have led to a discovery on site
Cate Blanchett is to play an Abramović-like artist in the mockumentary series Documentary Now!
Stephen Case is drawing every character from the Coen brothers’ films (and there are a lot of them)
