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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
Rachel Whiteread on her publicity-hungry peers, plus the rest of the week's art world tittle-tattle
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
