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
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
