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There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week's arty tittle-tattle
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
Salvador Dalí's moustache, Madonna's hairbrush, and the rest of this week's arty tittle-tattle
The French president has upset local mayors by messing around with the format of his official photograph
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week's arty tittle-tattle
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
