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
Howard Hodgkin's acute eye for beach towels, plus Jack White and De Stijl
Ivanka Trump's love of contemporary art and artists has led to a backlash from artists and curators
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 second lady is a vocal advocate of art therapy and an art historian has joined the National Security Council
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
The artist who wants you to 'thump a Trump'; Winston Churchill's ET moment; plus the rest of last week's art-world gossip
The new Burberry collection has taken inspiration from the work of Henry Moore...
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is touting himself as a tour guide at the People's History Museum in Manchester
Robbie Williams' verdict on David Hockney; Olafur Eliasson's archery habit; and Shia Laboeuf's art gets cancelled
The Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson has handed over the creation of the country's pavilion at the Venice Biennale to a brace of trolls. Really.
The YBAs party until their bedtime; Donald Trump learns to draw; and Richard Prince trolls the White House
David Hockney's redesign of the Sun masthead split opinions in the art world
