Rakewell

A town in Japan has spent coronavirus relief funds on a giant squid sculpture – a fine addition to the tradition of squid art, says Rakewell

A team of Basque chocolatiers has made a life-size replica of Picasso’s monochrome masterpiece

For five days the South Kensington museum has reopened as a supermarket, stocked with artist-designed essentials

A museum devoted to the instant noodle has opened in Hong Kong – but it’s not the first time that ramen has been put to creative uses

Rakewell suspects that Leonardo would have loved the invention of film and TV, but what would he have made of Aidan Turner, aka Ross Poldark, playing him?

Sacha Jafri’s vast canvas may have fetched $62m, but it also landed him in hospital – and he’s not the first artist to have suffered a work-related injury

Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. There’ll be a saving on shipping costs, if nothing else…

Thanks to deepfake technology you can make Rembrandt roll his eyes – and be creeped out by the results

With the sitcom set to return to our screens, Rakewell wonders if its pompous protagonist will know more about art than he used to

The Secretary of State for Culture has paintings by Lubaina Himid and Charles Mozley in his office – but perhaps video art is more his thing?

Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world

It’s your chance to own part of the Louvre – and spruce up your backyard with plants of impeccable provenance

The original foyer doors of Abbey Road Studios are up for auction – which isn’t quite the same as owning the zebra crossing, but still

The hit French series on Netflix sees the Paris museum’s security breached in spectacular fashion – but stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 couldn’t have been easier

A meme of Bernie at the inauguration has (predictably) seen the senator popping up in everyone’s favourite paintings

Charlotte York-Goldenblatt stepped away from her career in the original series, but perhaps she’s ready to return to the white cube in this year’s reboot?

It is perhaps unsurprising that a show that takes such a creative approach to costume drama plays fast and loose with its locations