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
Plus: selfie sabotage at a museum in Russia and Jim Carrey takes on Ted Cruz... with a painting
The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon is displaying Cromwell artefacts that have never been shown in public before – including his baby clothes
Plus: the poison pen of Alex Katz and the dangling doodles of Keith Richards
A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover once owned by the judge who presided over the novel’s obscenity trial is up for auction
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
The National, Jarvis Cocker, Pharrell and Bono are among the musicians the artist has corralled
A display of disgusting food is about to open in Malmo. Plus: fluffy floors in Athens and the aphrodisiac art of Olafur Eliasson
The white goods specialists at Samsung have plonked the world’s most famous sculpture on top of a washing machine
Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture
Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
