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Towering cost: Tracey Emin hit with £160,000 bill to fix Margate flats

The artist, who owns four properties in the Margate Brutalist block, has been told to pay £160,000 bill to replace cladding

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Innocent mistake? Italy's prime minister appears as a cherub in Rome church

A double of Georgia Meloni was spotted in the chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina

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Can you feel the love tonight? Elton John's cosy family portrait captured by Catherine Opie

Picture featuring his sons, husband David and their dogs goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London

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‘Haters will say this urn is mid’: US National Gallery of Art curator is Insta hit with Gen Z

Deputy head of sculpture's slang-heavy posts appeal to a new generation of art lovers

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See you, Searle: Guardian chief art critic bows out after 30 years

Adrian Searle has described writing for the paper as “an exhilarating ride”

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David Beckham dutifully does the art rounds in Doha

Meanwhile film star Angelina Jolie also put in an appearance at Art Basel Qatar

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Get your skates on: artist puts ice rink in Venice palazzo

Olaf Nicolai's "Eisfeld II" has taken up residence in an 18th-century banqueting hall

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Sweet Jesus—Trump auctions off a Christ painting made in ten minutes

Work was created live by Vanessa Horabuena at Mar-a-Lago New Year’s eve bash

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UK ministers get arty but who chose which works from the Government Art Collection?

Pieces by David Shrigley and Lubaina Himid grace the walls of government offices

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Woman whose botched Jesus fresco became a viral sensation dies, aged 94

Cecilia Giménez Zueco’s reworking of Ecce Homo in her local church inspired memes and headlines

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Arise Sir Tristram—V&A director is knighted in UK New Year Honours

National Trust chief Hilary McGrady is awarded a CBE while curator Ekow Eshun bags an OBE

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And God Created Artists: Brigitte Bardot caught on canvas

The French actress, who has died aged 91, was immortalised by artists such as Andy Warhol and Gerald Laing

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Puzzled presidents bring festive cheer to the White House

Lego-style puzzle portraits of Donald Trump and George Washington are part of the Christmas decorations overseen by Melania

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We are all in the gutter but Banksy’s Christmas kids are looking at the stars

The same work has appeared in west London and under the Centre Point tower in the city centre

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Spirited art—Sharon Stone looks to the afterlife for her latest paintings

For her new Rogues Gallery series, the film star says she channelled spirits from across the centuries

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We will always love you: museum dedicated to Dolly Parton to open in her Nashville hotel

The singer and actor’s life story will be told through the Dolly’s Life of Many Colours Museum

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Welcome to Richard Prince’s world: artist builds his own mini art city in upstate New York

The invitation-only compound of galleries houses his collection, plus a car bodyshop

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No such thing as bad press: makers of lift used in Louvre theft launch ad campaign

Social media users have been left—largely—amused by the German company's tongue-in-cheek approach

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Francis Bacon’s Paris pad honoured with plaque

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

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Look what she made them do: Taylor Swift fans descend on German museum

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

Frieze London diary: art historical speed dating and frozen faeces

Plus: Tracey Emin and Nicholas Cullinan get confessional and Kate Bush gets artists running up that hill

Frieze London diary: hair at the fair, art takes the streets and dreamers hit the sheets

Plus: the surprising benefits of reindeer pelts and where to take selfies with nudes in socks