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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
An art rogue at Vogue
John Currin seems to have come over all coy in his portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
Arty cats and dogs have their day on Twitter
International Cat Day clashes with Dogs in Paintings Day on Twitter. Which has really set the cat among the pigeons…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tittle-tattle and curiosities from the art and museum worlds
Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!
Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected
How to get your art-history fix at the Edinburgh Fringe
There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
The curious case of Microsoft Paint
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Salvador Dalí’s moustache, Madonna’s hairbrush, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
Macron goes large for his official photo
The French president has upset local mayors by messing around with the format of his official photograph
Digging up Dalí (and other disinterments)
Salvador Dalí is far from the first artist to have his eternal sleep disrupted
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Daniel Hannan gets furious about a statue of Engels, and the rest of this week’s arty tittle-tattle
The London museum having a whale of a time
The blue whale skeleton installed at Natural History Museum is proving as popular as Dippy the Diplodocus
The rogue art of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera
The TV thriller Riviera unfolds after the murder of a top art collector
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Brooklyn Beckham’s photo nasties and the rest of last week’s art-world tittle-tattle
How Bubbles the Chimp picked up the paintbrush
The chimp that was once Michael Jackson’s pet monkey has taken up painting in its retirement
Why angry letters are flying about in North Korea
The DPRK has released a series of stamps taking aim American targets
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Maria Balshaw’s matching socks – and the rest of the week’s art world tittle-tattle
The art of group sauna sessions
What links a trip to the sauna and some of the UK’s leading art institutions?
The rocky art of international relations
A public art installation in Albania has just been condemned by the Greek government
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