Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Succession to Lana Del Rey

With the clocks set to leap forward this weekend and the Easter holidays around the corner, it’s undeniable: spring is finally here.

And what more fitting way to spend a seasonal March weekend than by imbibing some of the best culture on offer. Whether it’s TV series, films, music, art shows or theatre, there is a plethora of options over the next few days, and The Independent’s team of critics and culture editors have hand-selected some of the best.

Chief art critic Mark Hudson reviews a flawed but possibly essential modern art exhibit at the National Gallery. TV editor Ellie Harrison celebrates the return of the best show on television, Succession, and features editor Adam White looks at three very different film releases, including the fourth John Wick, out in cinemas today. Meanwhile, music editor Roisin O’Connor sings the praises of Lana Del Rey’s new album (cumbersomely titled Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd). Arts editor Jessie Thompson picks out Paris Hilton’s surprising new memoir, and talks about the unexpected start to the Barbican’s run of Olga Tokarczuk adaptation Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

Art

Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life

There are just a few weeks left – extending over the Easter holidays – for this insightful overview of the great British sculptor’s life and work. Having Hepworth’s hugely atmospheric studio and garden just around the corner, and the sea and moorland that inspired her visible through the gallery window, makes for an irresistible package. Tate St Ives, until 1 May

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

Intriguing overview of the great turn-of-the-20th-century art revolution, extending the story from Paris to Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona and Vienna. Not everything convinces, but there are enough superb works from Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse and most of the other usual suspects to excite you all over again about one of art’s supreme moments. National Gallery, until 13 August

Betty Woodman and George Woodman

The Bloomsbury Group’s rural hideaway makes an apt setting for a show on another 20th-century rustic utopian experiment – Antella, the Tuscan farmhouse of American artists Betty and George Woodman. Including pottery, paintings, photography and design, this is the first UK exhibition to show the increasingly influential couple’s work together. Charleston, East Sussex, until 10 September

Mark Hudson, chief art critic

Books

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

This weekend marks 100 years since the birth of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. This surely calls for us all to dive back into the warm hug of a family saga that is the Cazalet Chronicles. (If you’ve yet to read the books, your life is not yet complete.) The series begins on the cusp of wartime, with a teeming cast of characters who are invariably posh, emotionally tortured and having either affairs or children. The kids are naughty – and when they grow up in later books, they are also emotionally tortured and having affairs or children. Escapism at its best.

Paris the Memoir by Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton: the first lady of “being famous for being famous”? The queen of Noughties “it girls”? Possibly, but her memoir, published this week, suggests she’s also a more complicated figure beneath the privilege and chihuahua puppies in handbags. She discusses it in detail with Adam White for our Saturday Interview.

Jessie Thompson, arts editor

Film

80 for Brady

The very funny Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin/Sally Field/Rita Moreno press tour that kept going viral in January also has a film attached – and it’s arriving on British shores this weekend. 80 for Brady is potentially the most American film in existence, revolving around a quartet of friends who travel to the Super Bowl to meet their hero, now-retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady (who plays himself). This is corny, stars-and-stripes silliness, entirely rescued by its eminently watchable leads. In cinemas now

Infinity Pool

Mia Goth extends her reign as queen of deeply uncomfortable indie horror with this icky, satirical and incredibly bloody slice of surrealist nonsense. She plays a mysterious woman who fangirls over a successful novelist (Alexander Skarsgård) while he’s on holiday with his wife (Cleopatra Coleman). Violence inevitably ensues, building to a Cronenbergian crescendo of goo and innards – which is appropriate, as this is written and directed by Canadian body horror scion Brandon Cronenberg. In cinemas now

John Wick: Chapter 4