‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?

The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie review – snapshots of intimacy

A joint memoir by the Nobel winner and her former lover uses pictures taken during their time together to reflect on the transient nature of passion – and of life

‘Immensely private’: inside great sketchbooks from history

The V&A has delved into its archives to showcase the embryonic work of leading artists including Leonardo and Constable along with lesser-known talents

Anwar Hussein obituary

Photographer whose work helped to transform the public image of the royal family

Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

Ed McLachlan obituary

Cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye, the Spectator and the Oldie in a 60-year career

The big picture: Consuelo Kanaga’s portrait of a young woman in the deep south, 1948

The photojournalist, a pioneer in portraiture of Black Americans, took this shot in Tennessee during the era of Jim Crow

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