Diary
‘I’m proud of my tiny shiny penis’: Michelangelo’s cancelled David bares all on Saturday Night Live
Real Housewives of Art Basel in Miami Beach: reality tv hits the art world
Beginning with an Apprentice-style dating show, a flurry of television shows will follow the lives of affluent dealers as they navigate the choppy waters of the art world
When waste becomes a work of art—street artist Bisk turns Paris garbage into upbeat installations
Rand Abdul Jabbar wins the second Richard Mille Art Prize
Artist was awarded the $60,000 prize in a ceremony at the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Lego Lilies? Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's giant masterpiece
Reinterpreted "Water Lilies"—with the addition of a mysterious dark door—debuts at London's Design Museum in April
'Pretty little thing ain’tcha?' Art critic John Berger played Cockney gangster in a Grand Theft Auto game
Author of Ways of Seeing did some impromptu voice acting for the violent video game after recording in the same studio
British artist Jake Chapman makes a mockery of Prince Harry's memoir
"Spare prick at a royal wedding" series remakes the front cover of the headline-hitting book
Crunch time: the day Roald Dahl spoke to Francis Bacon about the threat of censorship
“There must be no changes to an artist’s original work when he is dead for any reason whatsoever,” Bacon said
Vermeer reality TV show brings back to life painter's missing masterpieces
A hit in The Netherlands, "The New Vermeer" challenges artists to recreate works from a wide variety of materials—including Lego
Pestle or dildo? Six-inch wooden implement may be a Roman sex toy, say academics
Artefact may “be the first known sex object from the Roman Empire” according to new research
Frieze Los Angeles Diary: Art dealer action figures, Lionel Richie says hello and Tyler the Creator brings his bodyguards
Plus: legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn's home and a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house open up to art
The camera adds ten pounds, but the canvas? Slimline Boris Johnson portrait receives mixed reviews
Richard Stone’s painting, unveiled at London’s Carlton Club, has shaved off a few pounds from the UK's former prime minister
Go Tintin: drawing of Belgian boy detective fetches more than €2m at auction
Work sets the world record for the most valuable original black and white drawing by illustrator Hergé
The curious case of Madonna and the missing Old Master
Mayor of Amiens in France asks pop star to loan work believed to be by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, spotted in a photograph of her home
Queer eye: Donatello is reviewed through an LGBTQ+ prism
“The queer sculptor who stunned 15th-century Florence explodes again after six centuries,” writes art critic Jonathan Jones of the V&A exhibition
