‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before

Okamura, who moved to Ireland to explore JFK’s ancestry and stayed for 16 years to document political upheaval, is celebrated in a new exhibition and book

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch review – from the subway to the gift shop

This new biography describes Haring as a nimble, spontaneous performer and an artist of endearing naivety who was nevertheless corrupted by his popularity

On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights

The English singer-songwriter on an evocative Scottish railway museum, a much-missed painter and a forgotten American female musician

Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published

The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings

Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay

Poet who is curating country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion says ‘part of the heart’ of the country was looted and is being held in museums

Radiant by Brad Gooch review – art with heart

The life and untimely death of Keith Haring, whose work burst with vitality and warmth

On my radar: Alison Balsom’s cultural highlights

The classical trumpeter on a complex marital drama, an uncompromising violinist and a garden that feels like stepping back in time

Laurent de Brunhoff obituary

Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books

‘Not a parable about death’: Raymond Briggs’s notes set record straight for The Snowman

Remarks scribbled in a Finnish copy of the much-loved book, to be featured in an exhibition on the author, reveal how the story was misunderstood

On my radar: Frank Tallis’s cultural highlights

The author and psychologist on an intimate performance of MR James’s ghost stories, a brilliant debut novel and an impossibly good pianist

Phil Baines obituary

Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monuments

Winchester plan for £100,000 Jane Austen statue triggers ‘Disneyfication’ fears

People at public meeting raise concerns that sculpture in cathedral grounds will attract tourists taking selfies

‘I get looks of disbelief’: the visionary women shaking up architecture worldwide

Why are talented women still so shunned by the profession? From an epic New Zealand railway to a mirrored Kyiv tower with a helipad, a new book celebrates the thrilling work of 100 groundbreakers

On my radar: James Smith of Yard Act’s cultural highlights

The singer on the power of trespassing, a life-changing film, and the one item of clothing he never takes off

‘A visual testament to Palestinian society’: inside a powerful new photography book

Timely new book Against Erasure shows the ‘breadth and richness’ of Palestine before the Nakba in 1948 when 750,000 people were forced from their homes