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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. 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 actually discussed comes from a teaser of a tweet from Oliver Dowden himself. Very productive convers...

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 facility’. It is hoped that the new National Collections centre will put a roof over the head of 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. 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 Seine. Each lot offers you 60–70 Sempervirens boxwoods, ‘representing a square of their current a...

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 temperatures, pairing his gloves with a Goretex overcoat. ‘In Vermont, we know something about the co...