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Fishy fragrances and Flemish still lifes
Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović
Vincent Van Gogh, young and old
A portrait photograph long thought to show Van Gogh turns out to depict his brother Theo
David Davis, the accidental Roman emperor
Plus: a street artist with a vendetta in LA and Jerry Saltz dresses up as Frida Kahlo
Michael Jackson’s moony marginalia
A copy of a self-help book once owned by Michael Jackson is up for auction – personalised by the King of Pop himself
A Boris blunder for the Museum of London
Plus: Picasso at Annabel’s and Donald Trump rides across a golden burger
A cat and mouse game at a museum in Japan
A feline farce at the Onomichi City Museum of Art has got social media purring
I’ve got a brush… Frank Sinatra’s paintings go under the hammer
Sotheby’s is selling a clutch of canvases by Old Blue Eyes – as well as a number of curious Sinatra souvenirs
A brush with Boris Johnson
A painter in London is inviting the public to get creative with her portrait of Boris Johnson – by making their own additions
A monumental mishandling of Mo Salah
Plus: selfie sabotage at a museum in Russia and Jim Carrey takes on Ted Cruz… with a painting
Oliver Cromwell as you’ve never seen him before… in his romper suit
The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon is displaying Cromwell artefacts that have never been shown in public before – including his baby clothes
Cashing in on Brexit with a new 50p coin
Plus: the poison pen of Alex Katz and the dangling doodles of Keith Richards
A lot of love making, Your Honour
A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover once owned by the judge who presided over the novel’s obscenity trial is up for auction
Lil Wayne’s birthday present saves an art student’s bacon
A commission to make a necklace for the rapper comes in the nick of time. Plus: David Byrne’s sceptical reaction to a sculpture by Carsten Höller
Sophie Calle has persuaded some of the biggest names in music to pay tribute to her dead cat
The National, Jarvis Cocker, Pharrell and Bono are among the musicians the artist has corralled
The museum that’s going out of its way to make you queasy
A display of disgusting food is about to open in Malmo. Plus: fluffy floors in Athens and the aphrodisiac art of Olafur Eliasson
Why David is washing his dirty laundry in public
The white goods specialists at Samsung have plonked the world’s most famous sculpture on top of a washing machine
Matilda at 30 – still top of the class and now standing up to Donald Trump
Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture
Lots of bother… as Bez rigs Bargain Hunt
Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
UK culture secretary abandons his projection
Plus: a cannabis museum opens in Las Vegas, and Martin Parr on how Robert Mugabe informs his dress sense
The collector who says he’s sending artists to the moon
Yusaku Maezawa has booked up Elon Musk’s first space flight for an art adventure
Emmanuel Macron gets taken for a mug
Plus: a bizarre museum in North Korea and a top tip from Sarah Lucas for keeping your house safe
Everything must glow – Nicky Wire is having his first solo show
The Manic Street Preachers bassist is showing mixed media works in Pembrokeshire – and he’s not the first bass-player to have a sideline in art
Van Gogh in the shopping mall
Replicas of Van Gogh’s paintings are on a tour of major retail centres in the US. Plus: art on the loose in Toledo and Kanye goes back to school
William Hogarth as you’ve never seen him before (played by Keith Allen)
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
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