Rakewell

Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. There’ll be a saving on shipping costs, if nothing else…

Thanks to deepfake technology you can make Rembrandt roll his eyes – and be creeped out by the results

With the sitcom set to return to our screens, Rakewell wonders if its pompous protagonist will know more about art than he used to

The Secretary of State for Culture has paintings by Lubaina Himid and Charles Mozley in his office – but perhaps video art is more his thing?

Serena Williams has opened up her private art gallery to Architectural Digest – and she’s not the first tennis star to have courted the art world

It’s your chance to own part of the Louvre – and spruce up your backyard with plants of impeccable provenance

The original foyer doors of Abbey Road Studios are up for auction – which isn’t quite the same as owning the zebra crossing, but still

The hit French series on Netflix sees the Paris museum’s security breached in spectacular fashion – but stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911 couldn’t have been easier

A meme of Bernie at the inauguration has (predictably) seen the senator popping up in everyone’s favourite paintings

Charlotte York-Goldenblatt stepped away from her career in the original series, but perhaps she’s ready to return to the white cube in this year’s reboot?

It is perhaps unsurprising that a show that takes such a creative approach to costume drama plays fast and loose with its locations

A cameo in the BBC’s His Dark Materials adaptation leads Rakewell to reflect on other fictional appearances of the museum over the years

It has been a good week for outsize dogs in Turkmenistan and a huge week for good dogs in Delaware

Rakewell reports on a remarkable fluke outside the Dutch city

News that pet owners have more faith in doggy heaven than ever before leads Rakewell on a trip down memorial lane

From post Impressionist painting to 20th-century toys, the humble potato has caught the imagination of many an artist – and infant cubist