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A sprinkling of subversive celebrations to mark the centenary of Duchamp’s urinal

The former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is to exhibit his paintings in Paris

Eduardo Paolozzi’s comedy moment; cooking with Georgia O’Keeffe; and at home with Klaus Biesenbach

Instagram promotion, protests daubed in Latin… graffiti is starting to look like a genteel pastime

The clergy in Manchester have condemned a wheeze to sell crucifixion experiences

The pick of last week’s art world tittle tattle – including the best April fools

How beer art went from a Gilbert & George lager bottle to museums opening their own beer gardens

The Cristiano Ronaldo bust is the latest in a tradition of bad football sculptures

The actor relocated his anti-Trump installation to Liverpool this week only to be hoisted by hooligans once more

Perhaps George Osborne is good news for the Evening Standard’s culture pages

Gilbert & George RA; Giles Coren, art historian; and Mary Beard takes aim at the Vatican Museums

The Sickerts that Patricia Cornwell could have bought for the $6 million she has spent ‘proving’ he was Jack the Ripper

Damien Hirst is by no means the first artist to have done a doodle for a restaurateur

Howard Hodgkin’s acute eye for beach towels, plus Jack White and De Stijl

A bromance is blossoming between Damien Hirst and the popstar Ed Sheeran

Smashing (Kusama) pumpkins; the pop star and the painter; and at home with Maggi Hambling

The McDonald’s branch where you can now visit an archaeological site while you nibble your McNuggets

The artist living inside a boulder in Paris; the portrait of Tony Blair that nobody wants; and the art publisher boosted by the Oscars

The Bolivian president Evo Morales has opened a museum dedicated to – who else? – himself