The Grand Tour: Rubens at large in the streets of London: This summer, the Grand Tour turns the streets of London into a giant art gallery by hanging life-size replicas of paintings from the National Gallery all across the centre of town. The accompanying website provides a printable map (including a selection of ‘mini-tours’) along with audio downloads and further information about the paintings. They even opened a "photo...

Everything gets recuperated: Duchamp and Banksy: Last week I got quite uneasy because last.fm was rumoured to being sold to Viacom. This has not happened until now, so I might have jumped to conclusions too quickly. But in our capitalist system it's a sad truth that, given enough time, everything gets recuperated. In many cases ironically enough by the system it tends to criticise.Take for instance the artist Marcel Duchamp...