Claude Monet's vandalised Argenteuil Basin With A Single Sailboat is rehung in a Dublin gallery after a painstaking restoration process.

Singer most famed for his Beetlejuice suit and misogynistic lyrics of Blurred Lines took to Twitter for a Q&A in an epic PR fail

As far as mishaps involving Twitter and pop stars go, we didn't think anything could top the infamous #susanalbumparty hashtag that's Susan Album Party which befell Susan Boyle's PR team a couple of years ago. All they wanted was to let people know they would be celebrating Boyle's new CD with some cake and ice cream, but their hashtag looked like it belonged in an adult entertainment store (Su's Anal Bum Party, in case you're still wondering).

One of Robin Thicke's social media advisers, however, seemed to think it was a good idea to allow the singer who has been at the centre of a barrage of online criticism and accusations of misogyny ever since the release of his Blurred Lines video last summer to participate in a Q&A session on Twitter with VH1, using the hashtag #AskThicke.

Have a burning question for @robinthicke? Submit your ?s for tomorrow's Twitter Q+A using #AskThicke! pic.twitter.com/LwWKWlBysg

On a scale of R. Kelly to Phil Spector, how do you intend to "Get Her Back?" #AskThicke

#AskThicke It might seem like some of the questions on this hashtag are cruel and abusive but Robin, I know you want it

Is your next 'hit' just a lyric sheet, with a Rohypnol Sellotaped to it? #AskThicke

#AskThicke Did you really write a rape anthem as a love song for your wife and are you still wondering why she left you?

#AskThicke If we say your name three times, will you disappear? pic.twitter.com/htcvRtuBNX

What form of sexual or emotional abuse will you be normalising in your next jaunty hit? #AskThicke

#AskThicke Why do you have the stance of a Ken Doll? pic.twitter.com/rdprUWdp3e

#AskThicke Once you've cracked 'hug me', any thoughts on what rhymes with 'misogynistic douchebag'?

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Flying cat drones firebombing Wal-Mart, dildo drones hitting Facebook HQ, and Mr Spock riding a unicorn welcome to a world where our shops, homes and social media are under attack by digital art

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Tim Martin continues his series on the A to Z of forgotten books

Cleese has said that Monty Python's silly walks sketch was only funny because of the 'brilliance of my performance', while Jagger has called the comedy group 'a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth.' But tongue-in-cheek joking aside, this is still a seriously talented bunch of fools

Share your own silly walks in our GuardianWitness assignment

Following Michael Palin's claim that most of Monty Python's work was "crap", John Cleese is further trying to dampen the incendiary levels of excitement over the comedy troupe's return. He's said that the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, in which Cleese ludicrously perambulates to a job in the aforementioned ministry, won't be a part of the O2 show because "the only reason it became so iconic was the brilliance of my performance, because I never thought it was a very good sketch."

This reads arrogant but he's surely being tongue in cheek, as is Mick Jagger, who's also weighed in on the lack of merit to the Pythons. "Who wants to see that again, really?" he wonders in a new promotional video below. "It's a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money the best one died years ago!" See what he did there?

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Robin Thicke's #AskThicke social media campaign backfired. Here are the best tweets

The Montreal International Jazz Festival celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. We look at the highlights that make the event what it is today

Iona McLaren is entertained by Mary Beard's lively account of Roman laughter

Hollywood actress Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about her latest role in a British television series

The author of the groundbreaking Eighties young adult novel Annie on my Mind, has died aged 76

Critics give a warm reception to a new play at the National Theatre that addresses some of the issues raised in the recent phone-hacking trial.

A small-format Francis Bacon triptych of his lover George Dyer sells for £26.7m at a London auction.

Keswick's Theatre by the Lake is two hours from nearest city but retains its £600,000 cheque to bring drama to the Cumbrian stage

If the Arts Council handed out money for views, then Keswick's Theatre by the Lake would surely be the richest playhouse in the land. Derwentwater is at the bottom of the garden, Skiddaw rises up to the rear and what Alfred Wainwright described as Catbell's "shapely topknot" dominates the western vista. And where else can you enjoy an interval drink in the company of a flock of Herdwick sheep?

But grants are not given for panoramas alone, and Cumbria's premiere-producing theatre has had to work furiously to retain its £604,067 funding this time around. Patric Gilchrist, TBTL's executive director, declared himself "neither sick as a parrot nor over the moon" at the news. "There's certainly nothing to celebrate but we had no expectations and therefore we are not disappointed."

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Country music singer says her boobs and hair may be fake, but not her voice after Sunday's highly anticipated performance on Pyramid stage drew claims of miming

Greg Baxter's weary and curiously detached study of grief leaves Sheena Joughin cold

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