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From Cindy Sherman to the Femen movement to Richard Prince, artists have been taking aim at Trump ahead of his inauguration
The art of rejection (from Oxford University), James May's Matisse moment, and the rest of the week's art tittle-tattle
With the Boris bus discontinued and the Garden Bridge in doubt, the legacies of Bojo's bromance with Thomas Heatherwick are taking their curtain call
John Berger's motorbikes; James Franco and the art of method acting; and concrete coffee, exclusive to Selfridges
Joana Vasconcelos has sent a cockerel sculpture to Beijing for Chinese New Year. She's only the latest artist to have a thing for chickens
Facebook recently censored a photograph of Giambologna's Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. But did its software notice the sculpture's naughty side?
The arty words of the year, a Warhol wrangle in Belgrade, and Anish Kapoor gets his hands on the 'pinkest pink'
Just when you thought Shia Labeouf had given up on being an artist, the actor has returned to the fray with a baffling performance in Australia
The sorry tale of a Roman Christmas tree; the pinkest pink and Anish Kapoor; and George Osborne's coffee table books of choice
Is action man Sylvester Stallone about to be made Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts by President-elect Trump?