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Eight art events to get to in April

Highlights include shows devoted to Botticelli, Balla, and Walker Evans, and Tate's 'Queer British Art' exhibition

James Rosenquist (1933–2017)

Is accessible conservation more than a PR trick?

How sceptical should we be of the move towards a more transparent approach to cultural heritage?

‘You can get real fireworks with pastels’

Why Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pastels are becoming increasingly attractive to art collectors of all sorts

The unlikely art of the beer bottle

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

Hogarth’s paintings fail to go the whole hog

William Hogarth's paintings are nowhere near as 'Hogarthian' as his scathing, scurrilous prints

Italian police make arrests to foil terror attack in Venice

Art News Daily : 31 March

How the Versailles of Yorkshire has been saved

The future of Wentworth Woodhouse, a preposterous yet beautiful country house near Sheffield, has been secured after decades of uncertainty

A short history of (pretty dreadful) football statuary

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

Activists round on artists in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights

Tensions have flared in recent months as residents accuse new galleries of 'art-washing' and gentrifying the neighbourhood

Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

Art News Daily : 30 March

The peculiar prints of a singular Dutch artist

Hercules Segers combined printmaking and painting to create works that are in a category of their own

An ambitious plan to put Montpellier on the map

The city of Montpellier's cultural plans include a new contemporary art museum headed up by Nicolas Bourriaud

Christo installation tops attendance survey for 2016

Art News Daily : 29 March

Recollections of Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin's great artistic struggle – and achievement – was to find a way of visualising memories

‘When I start bidding it’s very hard to stop’

Kiran Nadar on the 'exhilaration' of art collecting, the museum she set up in Delhi, and her commitment to showing Indian artists on the global stage

François Hollande urged to return ‘colonial treasures’ to Benin

Art News Daily : 28 March

The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip

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

Paula Rego shares her secrets with her son

The artist discusses love, depression, abortion and infidelity in a new documentary directed by her son

Jesus’s tomb has been restored in Jerusalem

One of the holiest sites in Christianity has reopened in time for Easter

UN adopts resolution to protect cultural heritage

Art News Daily : 27 March

Glasgow must not forget its greatest architect

In his bicentenary year, the Scottish architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson should be getting more attention

Meret Oppenheim – an outsider interested in the outsides of things

Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim's objects – she referred to them as ‘things’ – are still deeply unsettling, drawing you into their worlds and their logic