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.
The Met's rebranding exercise has not gone well, Kanye West needs $1 billion, and London's art world has been partying in the name of pretentiousness
Kanye West thinks he's Picasso or Michelangelo – but Rakewell is not so sure
The Cornish pasty museum and now booking: Van Gogh's bedroom on Airbnb
Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are building and burrowing in London – but at what cost, asks Rakewell
Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster
Spare a thought for the poor souls at the Creation Museum, says Rakewell, whose ambitions are being held up by red tape
Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence
The return of the fig leaf, Thomas Heatherwick's selective statistics, and a museum director in the postroom
Italian PM Matteo Renzi likes to boast about his country's cultural heritage – until the Iranian president visits, that is...
Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director's penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films
