The Irish writer’s surprising dance-world connections, from a duet in a silent film to Michael Flatley’s Riverdance
Andy Murray picks up the paintbrush, truth and lies with Ai Weiwei, and the dawn of the Museum of Pizza
From Buckinghamshire to Brooklyn, David Bowie is being commemorated in surprising ways across the globe
The LA-based artist Lili Chin has accused Old Navy of stealing her work for a line of pyjamas
Lots of leather from Russell Crowe, Nigel Farage in the museum, and Kanye West gets art historical
Rose Wylie's high heels, Thaddaeus Ropac shares a beer with Joseph Beuys, and a design collaboration for Kanye West
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
