Rakewell
The lows and highs of Olympic art
The Games have always been accompanied by some terrible art. Can Rio buck the trend?
The darling buds of Theresa May
The new prime minister’s rehang of 10 Downing Street will apparently see artworks replaced with quotations from her first speech in office
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A ‘cubist’ computer game; vegan art; and Matt Hancock gets to grips with being culture minister
William Eggleston and the sound of silence
The great photographer proves to be a man of few words – albeit with a grin – at a National Portrait Gallery event
‘Donaldism’ – a new art movement to give Trump the hump
There’s an enough anti-Donald work out there to dub a new artistic movement
We all have a Vincent in our lives, apparently…
Van Gogh lookalikes are taking over the asylum, or so it seems from Douglas Coupland’s latest project
It seems Ed Vaizey saw the writing on the wall...
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A David Bowie body-paint competition; a 91-year-old gets to grips with conceptual art; and farewell to Ed Vaizey
Museums are mad about Pokémon Go – literally
The British Museum seems up for some Pokémon related fun and games: Washington’s Holocaust Museum, understandably, less so…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Was Lady Liberty a man? Plus a museum dedicated to Prince, and the fine art of Milton Keynes
A rove around the Apollo summer party
Museum directors and macaroni, and what Grayson Perry’s teddy bear makes of Brexit
The Rake’s Progress: last week in gossip
A Lancaster councillor has told museums they are ‘stuck in the past’. Plus a Game of Thrones art and Michel Houellebecq’s dead dog
’90s nostalgia is everywhere – and it’s coming for the art world next
Frieze will be turning its hand to exhibition reenactment this year
How are British artists bearing up? Not too well, it seems…
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art…
The art world unites against Brexit, in its own way
As the EU referendum arrives, Rakewell rounds up the art world response – which includes some wacky works
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Lionel Richie, artist’s muse, plus the Tate’s retail adventure
More than a game? The art of Euro 2016
Florian Nicolle’s ESPN posters for Euro 2016 leave Rakewell to ponder national characteristics
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Chipperfield’s grand anti-Brexit gesture falls flat; Marc Quinn pledges his services to orchids; and Picasso washes up on the beach
Monkey business comes to Art Basel
Guests at the art fair’s private view on Monday are in for a wild night…
The submerged city that turns out to be, erm, a load of guff
Archaeologists inform a Greek hotel owner that he has not in fact discovered an Atlantean wonder off a Greek island
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
An unsightly selfie statue, Lego gets taken to pieces, and trouble at the Jack the Ripper Museum
A home for street art…in museums and shopping malls
Street art is coming in from the cold in museums and commercial developments. It’s official – graffiti has become institutional.
It’s culture vs the UK culture secretary in the Great British Brexit Debate
Artists and cultural figures have declared themselves for the ‘In’ campaign. Must make for some tricky meetings with the culture secretary…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A prank ‘artwork’ at SFMOMA, and art thieves caught on camera in Madrid
Coronation Street joins the northern renaissance
A Coronation Street character is heading to art school. What’s next, the Turner Prize?
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