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The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise

The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement

Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent

’Red Notice’ may not be most sophisticated heist film, but it’s hard to resist The Rock on the trail of Wonder Woman

Where Winckelmann and Walter Pater have trod, the tech entrepreneur follows

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. With most people working from home for the last 14 months, few would be surprised if the office as it once was became a museum piece. Metaphorically, that is: nobody’s really expecting museums to start displaying staplers, ring binders, watercoolers and the like, plus that unfortunate Xerox from the office Christmas party, in vitrines to inspire th...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. Dinophiles rejoice! This summer a touring exhibit of animatronic dinosaurs is arriving in the UK. The interactive installation Jurassic Encounter features 50 life-size robots, so they say, of creatures from the Jurassic, Triassic and Cretaceous periods, complete with swishing tails and roaring sound effects. Throughout the summer holidays it will tak...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. All hail the giant squid! The coastal town of Noto in the Ishikawa prefecture of Japan finds itself in hot water, with some of its residents at least, for having splashed 25 million yen (£165,000) on a colossal statue of a cephalopod that it hopes will prove a draw for seafood-seeking tourists. The problem? The funds came from a coronavirus relief p...

When Picasso painted Guernica in 1937, he did not employ his usual palette. Rather he turned to black, white and grey house paints, specially selected in order to achieve the minimum amount of gloss. The outcome is one of the most famous anti-war paintings as well as one of the most famous monochromatic works of art – up there with Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille and Malevich’s Black Square. Now, on the 85th anniversary of the bombing that Guernica depicts, a team of 40 master craftsme...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. While museums and other ‘indoor entertainment venues’ in the UK may still be shut, shops (along with gyms, pub gardens, and hair and beauty salons) are now open. The logic of the UK government’s approach to easing Covid-19 restrictions has now been called into question rather imaginatively, with the Design Museum’s decision to reopen its gift...