Rakewell

Joana Vasconcelos has sent a cockerel sculpture to Beijing for Chinese New Year. She’s only the latest artist to have a thing for chickens

The sorry tale of a Roman Christmas tree; the pinkest pink and Anish Kapoor; and George Osborne’s coffee table books of choice

Is action man Sylvester Stallone about to be made Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts by President-elect Trump?

Peter Mandelson has been appointed chairman of trustees at the Design Museum, the week after he lent his support to a replica of the Titanic…

The art of celebrity comes to Miami Beach once more – and Rakewell is on hand to help you tell your James Corden from your James Franco

Philip Hammond upsets the Janeites; Paolozzi’s Piscator in search of an owner; and how Boris Johnson ended up as a bumblebee

Paintings by Michelangelo, Leonardo and Caravaggio have been infiltrated with pizza slices in the name of pizza delivery.

Having a laugh with Bob Rauschenberg; the man who would be Van Gogh; and rock’n’roll stories from Johnny Marr and Sean Lennon

The Bullingdon comes to the block; beauty and the beast of brutalism; a disaster in Lisbon; and an avian seance in a London gallery

The David Bowie auction diet; introducing Picasso’s, erm, brown period; and Barbara Kruger’s failed Trump prophecy

MoMA has acquired the original set of emojis and is set to put them on public display. But the emoji effect is visible in the Old Master world, too

Halloween horrors hit museum’s social media accounts, Ai Weiwei gets sweary, and Grayson Perry takes aim at Rafael Vinoly

First a sculpture of Hillary Clinton suckling a banker appeared in New York, and now comes Donald Trump as an ugly Renaissance baby

The Madonna and Maggie Simpson; Alex Katz at H&M; the girl with the not-so-pearl earring and more

Jeff Koons goes shopping, plus other Frieze week art happenings and ironic after-parties