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
Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived
Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Cassandra Austen is part of events marking 250th anniversary of author’s birth
Forgotten fashions: rediscovered slides show off everyday flair from the Fifties and beyond
The latest book from artist Lee Shulman, who has created the world’s largest private collection of amateur colour transparencies, has an often startling sartorial focus
Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence
The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiography
Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario
Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book
Penis-inscribed tables and parking meter chairs: the lost queer genius of House of Beauty and Culture
Boy George bought their provocative furniture; fashion giant Martin Margiela embraced deconstruction after visiting their loose change-strewn shop. So why is the groundbreaking 80s design collective so little known?
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame
From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to us
‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light
He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a hero
On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights
The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsen