Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories.
Rakewell would be fibbing if he didn’t admit that malt whisky has been helping him through this darkest of winters. So he was pleased to discover, at the end of November, that the Dalmore Highland Single Malt had announced a four-year partnership with V&A Dundee, through which the two will ‘cultivate a global platform for contemporary master creatives and their protégés’. Your correspondent has long felt that museums don’t have enough scotch in them.