Another hipster museum is opening in California – and this one is all about avocados
At Nanterre University, students have taken against street art commemorating the riots of 1968
The tiny head of Yuri Gagarin, Richard Rogers gets hit with an umbrella, and the rest of last week's arty tittle-tattle
A museum dedicated to dachshunds has opened in Germany
The barbs of Francis Bacon, an auction of VIP hotel doors, and an artistic slanging match between Chicago and Houston
Baldessari is the latest star to appear in The Simpsons – in a flashback scene with cub reporter Marge Simpson
You read it right – an exhibition on Steve Bannon, that Renaissance man of the Alt-Right, is about to open in Rotterdam
When Henry Moore gave Barbara Hepworth the cold shoulder, plus the rest of last week's arty tittle tattle
A rascal artist has doctored road signs in Oxfordshire to give directions to Narnia and Neverland
Bowie in Buckinghamshire, peeling off in Paris, and Lucian Freud on Prince Charles's watercolours
Comic strips are getting an artistic makeover – with Beano characters meeting Pop art in London
Barbie seems to have missed Frida Kahlo’s independent sense of style in its doll version of the artist
Do Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump's share a taste in interior design? Plus Russell Crowe's divorce auction and Damien Hirst on an Australian beach.
The photographer Natalie Lennard has recreated the home birth of Prince Edward – with some surprising props
The critics putting the hatchet into Civilisations and 'All Too Human', why Ed Sheeran is going Anglo-Saxon, and more arty tittle-tattle
You can't show the Venus of Willendorf on Facebook, it seems, but neither can you wear period dress to the Met
Lucian Freud and the trouble with suntans, a big ticket for Bowie in Brooklyn, and the rest of last week's art-world tittle-tattle
Jeremy Bentham leaves University College London to take part in a show at the Met Breuer
London Fashion Week shuts down the National Portrait Gallery, the Duchess of Cambridge gets creative, and Marvel's 'Black Panther' invents a Museum of Great Britain
The Angel of the North may have been co-opted to sell baguettes in its time, but the north-east has undoubtedly come to love it
Correcting Jasper Johns, Tory fossils, artists as cheeses, and, erm, a couple of cats stories
The appearance of Turner paintings on Dr. Martens bovver boots has some of the painter's fan fulminating
Appy days for Matt Hancock, bitcoin art business, and a useful lesson from Maria Balshaw. Plus the rest of this week's arty tittle-tattle
Valentine's Day looks set to bring its usual mad merchandise – which this year, includes an unnervingly realistic chocolate heart
