Rakewell

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

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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...

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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?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Victoria Beckham gets the Venus de Milo treatment; what Dubya's family think of his painting; and the Pont des Arts minus the padlocks

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Sainsbury's bid to employ an artist (for free); love in the Tate Modern carpark; and Fearne Cotton's art for the apiarists

Gun sculpture silenced in trigger-happy Texas

A university museum in Houston has removed a revolver from an artwork critical of Texan gun culture – and Rakewell is baffled by the decision

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The high-school pottery that fooled an antiques expert, Darth Vader hits the museums, and an artist who has removed his nipples in, erm, the name of art

Pills, thrills and (musical) bellyaches: lunch, the Damien Hirst way

Rakewell enjoys lunches Damien Hirst's new Pharmacy 2 restaurant – if only the waiters would provide earplugs to drown out the '90s soundtrack

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Art slides and crazy golf in London, and Giacometti's Jezza phase

William and Kate’s taste for the Old Masters

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Italian scientists claim art is a stress buster, while the staff of a London gallery have been told to put their feet up. Rakewell has his doubts...

The spirit of the Renaissance, via YouTube

Has Tate Modern secretly switched directors?

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

The garden bridge gets hijacked on Twitter. Plus, how Damien Hirst like his fish cooked (clue: he's fussy)

Found in Florence! The lost tribe of Leonardo

Rakewell likes nothing better than a good bit of amateur genealogy

Mrs Thatcher’s missing handbag and the case of the disappearing duck

Rakewell ponders two statues in London that have come in for criticism because they are missing vital accessories

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

David Shrigley's foam hands, Olafur Eliasson's shaky economics and a chance to buy Andy Warhol's studio

Pencils, irons and used underwear: the world’s wackiest museums

Whatever your thing, says Rakewell, there's a museum for you out there somewhere

The museum pratfalls of London’s mayoral candidates (yep, Zac AND Sadiq)

Neither Zac Goldsmith nor Sadiq Khan seem to know a thing about the capital's museums