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Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status

Enclosure found under late novelist’s garden is older than Salisbury monument and wins national recognition

‘Pink hair is my armour’: Zandra Rhodes on cancer, colour and the art of being fabulous

For almost 60 years, Zandra Rhodes has been one of Britain’s most flamboyant designers. She talks about her astonishing upbringing, being spurred into action by cancer and what she’s doing with her 6,000 dresses

On my radar: Yotam Ottolenghi’s cultural highlights

The chef on a novel that triumphantly captures messy London life, a Turkish Netflix drama that shows Istanbul’s split worlds and the app that gets him going in the morning

Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’

The standup is building on his success at the Royal Academy summer exhibition with a book of his work, Art Hole. So has he gone all highbrow? The art reveals all …

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux review – savage with a sensitive side

This detailed biography complicates our perception of the bad boy of French art and illuminates his fraught friendship with Van Gogh

Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel

Dutch illustrator Aimée de Jongh talks about turning William Golding’s haunting novel into a visual artwork, while the author’s daughter and others reflect on its evolving message of humanity

The big picture: a pileup of pugs

A sudden flash of inspiration gave portrait photographer Neal Slavin the key to this group shot

‘I wanted my photos to reflect my disorientation’: rising star Anastasia Samoylova on how Florida’s hyperreal streets inspired her work

It’s a big moment for the Russian-born photographer known for her dreamlike images of Miami after the 2017 hurricane. Here she talks about upcoming shows in London and New York, plus a new book surveying her career to date

On my radar: Zadie Smith’s cultural highlights

The writer on Netflix’s brilliant plague tragicomedy, the best British debut novel she’s read in a while, and her deep love of singer Chappell Roan

Charles Blackman was devoted to my mother. Their love story needs to be told

My parent’s marriage spanned a quarter of a century. His letters, kept by mother, Barbara, are steeped in intense passion, creativity and youth

‘It shouldn’t be a bucket list place’: these people went to Antarctica. They hope you don’t

As Antarctic tourism grows, so does the environmental impact. Now scientists and artists who work on the continent hope to encourage us to admire from afar

Five of the best novels about art

Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works

‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be told

The big picture: precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

Roland Ramanan spent more than 10 years documenting the evolution of a new public space in Hackney and its many and varied users

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