Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones; Seven Years with Banksy by Robert Clarke – review
A sceptic and a devotee Robert Clarke struggle to reveal much of note about the elusive, camera-shy graffiti artist, writes Peter Conrad
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Charlotte Higgins: It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the web
Edward Lear, master of the nonsense rhyme
Edward Lear was born 200 years ago this week. Remembered as one of the finest writers of nonsense poetry and limericks, he was also an accomplished artist, and drawing teacher to her majesty Queen Victoria
Angelica Garnett obituary
Artist and writer both blessed and burdened by her Bloomsbury group inheritance
Seven Years by Peter Stamm – review
The buildings of Le Corbusier figure strongly in this story of love among architects, writes Adam Mars-Jones
Adrian Searle encounters … Luc Tuymans’s Allo!
The Guardian art critic journeys deep into the heart of darkness with Tuymans's Gauguin-themed painting, displayed in A Room for London, the boat perched on the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Charlotte Higgins: Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
Gillian Darley on John Golding: ‘He said that I could, and should, write’
Gillian Darley writes: John Golding was the most inspiring of an outstanding group of teachers in my undergraduate years
Grainy glory: how Keizo Kitajima tore up the Japanese photobook
Sean O'Hagan: Photo Express: Tokyo breaks with Japanese photobook tradition by being less of an art object and more of a collection of raw, confrontational images that capture the buzz of Tokyo at night
Edmund de Waal turns Amber Eyes towards Waddesdon
The ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes has been tasked with embellishing one of England's grandest houses
Mid Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era by Jim Heimann and Steven Heller – review
Babies selling cigarettes? Jim Heimann and Steven Heller's glossy tome gives us a fascinating look at marketing in the 50s and 60s
John Golding obituary
Artist, teacher and historian of modern art, he wrote a seminal work on cubism
This Must Be the Place by Pieter Hugo – review
Pieter Hugo's photographic retrospective offers a provocative view of life on the edge of sub-Saharan African society, writes Sean O'Hagan
Fly to Brittany, spring gardens break and three of the best alfresco arts events
The newly accessible French coastline, green-fingered forays and outdoor screenings and concerts at stately homes
Why I hate the myth of the suffering artist
AL Kennedy: It is absurd and insulting to assume artists are assisted by despair or hunger in a way that, say, plumbers are not
John Griffiths obituary
Illustrator whose bold creations adorned Penguin book covers
New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake’s 80th birthday
Amy Winehouse, JK Rowling, Noel Gallagher, Mick Jagger and the Monty Python foot to feature in update of 1967 original
Interviews with Artists, 1966‑2012 by Michael Peppiatt – review
Over 46 years, Michael Peppiatt met the world's great artists, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Francis Bacon, on their home turf. The collected interviews are enthralling, writes Talitha Stevenson
Until Further Notice, I Am Alive by Tom Lubbock – review
Julian Bell is moved by the final reflections of an endlessly curious art critic
Edgar Allan Poe and the art of squalor
Jonathan Jones: From the 19th-century French avant garde to Damien Hirst, artists have revelled in Poe's world of bohemian depravity
Why art will not suffer death by digital
Jonathan Jones: Ebooks may be pushing print towards oblivion, but high-priced art is unique and in no danger of being replaced by a virtual substitute. Just ask Damien Hirst
Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
Christer Strömholm's compelling portraits of transsexuals in 50s Paris capture his subjects' pride and camaraderie, writes Sean O'Hagan
Mole and Rat meet the horned god Pan in British Library summer exhibition
Wind in the Willows – and forgotten chapter The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – in Cultural Olympiad exploration of landscape
Jane Austen portrait on show at Bodleian Library for World Book Day
World Book Day will see Bodleian Library in Oxford display 'new' Jane Austen portrait and sampler – for one day only
Jackson Pollock by Evelyn Toynton – review
Evelyn Toynton's portrait of Jackson Pollock reveals the artist in complex, colourful detail, writes Christopher Bray
Pugin, God’s architect
AWN Pugin's book, Contrasts, written in 1836, was the first architectural manifesto, and had profound influence on the next three generations of urban designers
Tomi Ungerer, rennaisance man of children’s book illustration
The prolific author and illustrator is a goodwill ambassador for the Council of Europe and there's a museum in Strasbourg dedicated to his work. His 'fables' deserve greater recognition, writes Joanna Carey
John House obituary
International expert on impressionism who became a professor at the Courtauld Institute
Brian Selznick: how Scorsese’s Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book
In an exclusive interview the American artist talks to Ed Vulliamy about working with Scorsese his love of cross-hatching – and why he always keeps a mirror on his desk