Michael Morpurgo to recite Vivaldi-inspired poetry at inaugural Cornwall festival
Author wants to take arts to ‘middle of wonderful nowhere’ in far south-west, often missed by people heading for coast
Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman review – secrets from the studio
The much-loved painter, designer of stamps and creator of anti-war posters shares tips from a 90-year career
‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley
He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally here
‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!
Her rhyming tales have enchanted children and parents the world over – but which is the best? From a busker’s cat to a greedy rat, it’s time to rate the hits
Experience: I live as William Morris for three months a year
It’s made me feel it’s OK to be an artist with a social purpose, though my wife hates the beard
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John
Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography
Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon
How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure
Angela Lemaire obituary
Other lives: Printmaker, painter, wood engraver and writer who lived and worked in Jedburgh
Sebastião Salgado obituary
One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life
We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels
From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in
The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists
The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers
Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book
He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking read
‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books
New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books
Martin Lee obituary
Other lives: Print consultant who worked with leading designers to produce high-end books such as Designed by Apple in California
Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s
The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a whole