The Louvre is going to allow one couple a chance to conk out at the gallery. Seems like cultural catnaps are all the rage...
A fleshy protest made parliament more farcical than ever this week. Marina Abramović, you have competition...
From the Salvator Mundi in the Oval Office to a sausage museum in Lincolnshire, the best art-related April Fools' jokes of 2019
The Make America Grate Again project isn’t the first time dairy has been used as an artistic medium
It turns out that the former England striker has an impulsive streak when it comes to art and interiors
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has opened an exhibition in Seattle. He’s not the first grunge star to try their hand at the visual arts...
David Lynch and Harmony Korine are among the directors who have made the leap to canvas
Political tweets have hit the big time – on massive billboards in the UK and in ‘The Presidential Twitter Library’
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is launching a mini-golf course inspired by its collection
Cate Blanchett has pastiched the performance artist for Documentary Now!
English Heritage marks the musician’s time in Chelsea, but a literary festival’s calls for pink plaques in Highgate falls flat
Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter are just a few of the artists who have taken to the bottle and designed labels for famous brands
The Rijksmuseum gathered 150 people called Rembrandt to launch its new exhibition – but that’s just the start of the the painter’s curious legacy
Ed Sheeran has joined the big league – by becoming the latest star to pose for David Hockney
Plus: Donald Trump’s wedding cake goes under the hammer, and Lars von Trier turns his films into diamonds
The thunderous thespian is to voice the bacteria that spread the Black Death for a new display at the Museum of London
The latest bizarre artworks to come to Rakewell’s attention feature blood donations and cattle-rearing devices
In a short film by Ridley Scott, David Hockney opens up about his time at the Royal College of Art – and mischievous visits to the V&A
Bougie London Literary Woman has sidled away from social media – for now. Rakewell rounds up some of her art-related tweets
Plus: Toto forever in the Namib Desert and art students in China face an overfamiliar exam
Critics have waxed lyrical about The Favourite – but spare a thought for the candle crew on set at Hatfield House
Gyllenhaal plays a contemporary art critic in a forthcoming art-world satire that was inspired by a trip to Dia: Beacon
Plus: the mysteries of Loic Gouzer and how a notorious art thief turned to drawing
The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has joined the ranks of politicians who have tried to airbrush themselves into history
