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The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Do we need a museum dedicated to the Olsen twins? Er, no.

A Kickstarter campaign to launch an Olsen twins museum has Rakewell reaching for his absinthe bottle

A lust for life drawing (or, Iggy Pop takes his clothes off, again)

Iggy Pop has been getting his kit off (again), in the name of art

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Zaha Hadid's favourite rapper, art in space, and why Prince Philip doesn't rate Lucian Freud

A contested cockerel and other controversies

Rakewell reflects on how the public has started taking restitution into its own hands

The Met’s new logo and a truly pretentious party

The Met's rebranding exercise has not gone well, Kanye West needs $1 billion, and London's art world has been partying in the name of pretentiousness

A history of Kanye Western art

Kanye West thinks he's Picasso or Michelangelo – but Rakewell is not so sure

The museum of Cornish pasties and a peek inside Vincent’s bedroom

The Cornish pasty museum and now booking: Van Gogh's bedroom on Airbnb

The YBA demolition jobs causing a sensation near you

Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are building and burrowing in London – but at what cost, asks Rakewell

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

Not-so-radical street art and the Cerne Abbas giant censored at the Palace of Westminster

Arks and car parks at the Creation Museum

Spare a thought for the poor souls at the Creation Museum, says Rakewell, whose ambitions are being held up by red tape

Situation terminal: can an artist improve Manchester Airport?

Rakewell ponders why an airport would install an artist in residence

The Rake’s Progress: The Week in Gossip

The return of the fig leaf, Thomas Heatherwick's selective statistics, and a museum director in the postroom

Italy tucks away its assets to avoid Iranian blushes

Italian PM Matteo Renzi likes to boast about his country's cultural heritage – until the Iranian president visits, that is...

The Rake’s Progress: Last Week in Gossip

Harry Styles turns to painting, the new British Museum director's penchant for Prince, and why Arts Council initiatives sound like second-rate action films

The curious incident of the dog on Gormley’s coastline

British sculptor Antony Gormley has a furry new fan

Bursting bubbles at the Saatchi Gallery

Great to have a show dedicated to women artists – but why the baffling title?

Do women have to be censored to get on CBS?

The Guerrilla Girls appeared on TV this week with more than just their faces obscured...

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Matthew Slotover launch their modelling careers

Move over David Gandy...

The US museums that will let you carry a gun – no joke, alas

The Denver Museum of Nature & Sciences has reversed its anti-gun policy. But it's not the only shooting gallery in the US

New Year in Manchester: Golden Cut or Half Cut?

How social media took the Golden Ratio out of all proportion...

Rakewell revisited: Mao, Hamilton Finlay’s ‘heavies’ and Uri Geller’s spoon

Updates on some of Rakewell's most popular stories from 2015, including the gentlemanly disagreement between Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brian Sewell and Apollo

Your surreal Christmas, courtesy of a museum gift shop near you

Rakewell scours the museum gift shops of the world for his last-minute gifts for the entire family