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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’s most-tapped apps of the pandemic year? The same as yours, dear reader: Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats. By now, your correspondent has even started delving into the ‘Healthy’ options on Deliveroo, a quest for peptic peace his latest lockdown diversion. There’s been no shortage of junk food, then. But there has been a dearth of ar...

Seventeenth-century portraiture, it seems, is especially well suited to a whole range of karaoke classics – witness Van Dyck’s Charles I singing along to Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive (if only he knew). What in god’s name have i done pic.twitter.com/VylSEdUx9X Art dealer Philip Mould has an astute observation on what makes these particular deepfakes so uncanny – ‘the […] addition of a set of teeth!’. As Mould points out, ‘formal, society portraiture rarely if ever allowed th...

News that the Loro Parque Fundación has released two Lear’s macaws ( Anodorhynchus leari) into their natural habitat in Brazil has had Rakewell squawking with pleasure. These Brazilian parrots were first described in the 1850s but would not be defined as a distinct species until 1978, when an ornithologist discovered their wild population. At that point, they were named after Edward Lear, the painter-poet whose first publication, in 1832, was a volume of lithographic reproductions of his dra...

Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. The scent of tulipomania is in the air…

The news that Frasier is to return to our screens has your correspondent wondering whether its protagonist’s art collection has survived. The sulky sitcom shrink lived in an apartment in Seattle that was decked out with modern art – including a Rauschenberg poster and whopping great Dale Chihuly vase – as well as a large collection of African objects. He was hypersensitive about chairs: always banging on about his favourite Eames lounge chair and disgusted by the mangy armchair that move...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. The Secretary of State for Culture’s meeting with the heads of museums and heritage organisations was widely publicised, its purpose to ‘defend our history’ against the removal of controversial monuments trailed in the Sunday Telegraph ten days beforehand. But since the meeting took place on Tuesday afternoon, all that we know about what was a...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. Two important art collections are being sent to Coventry – or will be, if Coventry Council has its way. As part of Coventry’s stint as UK city of culture, which begins in May, the council is to vote next week on a plan to buy a recently closed five-storey IKEA store in the city centre and turn it into ‘a multi-purpose collections and cultural f...

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. It’s your chance to buy a branch of the Louvre. No, not the European paintings collection or the Egyptian treasures, but – in 14 lots offered on the Drouot Digital website this week –  a batch of boxwood plants from the Jardin de l’Infante, a garden tucked against the south-eastern corner of the Louvre, between the Sully Wing and the River S...

The sculptor is urging us to get creative in lockdown – and even better, he’s been channelling the late, great Tony Hart on live TV

Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories.  President Biden’s message of national unity at the Inauguration yesterday was bolstered by support from an unlikely source, as America came together in appreciation of Bernie Sanders’ outsized, though nonetheless rather natty mittens. In a picture that immediately went viral, the Democratic Senator folds his arms firmly against the freezing tem...