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
Plus: Salvador Dalí among the drug lords and how Jeremy Deller made his mother proud
Plus: Prince Charles, Leonard Cohen and Salvador Dalí, and the artistic tastes of Drake
Plus: Jools Holland and his model railway, and how Monster Chetwynd got her name
The British pub chain has announced that it will develop a museum at a boozer in Wolverhampton
Britain is bedecked with Christmas trees once more – and this year’s surprise hit is a tilting trunk in Southampton
Plus: Lucian Freud on horseback and how Sex and the City made Marina Abramović
A portrait photograph long thought to show Van Gogh turns out to depict his brother Theo
Plus: a street artist with a vendetta in LA and Jerry Saltz dresses up as Frida Kahlo
A copy of a self-help book once owned by Michael Jackson is up for auction – personalised by the King of Pop himself
Plus: Picasso at Annabel’s and Donald Trump rides across a golden burger
A feline farce at the Onomichi City Museum of Art has got social media purring
Sotheby’s is selling a clutch of canvases by Old Blue Eyes – as well as a number of curious Sinatra souvenirs
A painter in London is inviting the public to get creative with her portrait of Boris Johnson – by making their own additions
