Clock watching: meet the artist who thinks time is ruining our lives

‘Clock time’, all about productivity, money and economic growth, threatens to destroy us, says artist Jenny Odell. But there are other kinds of time, and we need to learn to embrace them

Jeremy Deller: ‘The world worries me – but for an artist, that’s a good thing’

The artist has been confounding the art world for 30 years. As he publishes Art Is Magic, a survey of his best known works, he talks about the experiences that shaped them

Al Jaffee, legendary Mad magazine cartoonist, dies aged 102

The artist behind the magazine’s famous “fold-in” drawing, Jaffee was Mad’s longest-tenured contributor and only retired when he was 99

The big picture: ​a memorable encounter on the backstreets of Istanbul

Emre Çakmak’s striking image of a ​young ​girl is part of a collection celebrating street photography from ​places less associated with the art form

Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it

Amsterdam court dismisses French author’s complaint against film that shows him having sex with young women

Stretching his 15 minutes of fame: why Andy Warhol still has the power to inspire

The array of new exhibitions, plays and books shows the maverick artist has struck a chord with the digital generation

The big picture: memories of a rural Russia untouched by time

In revisiting the village where she spent her childhood summers, photographer Nadia Sablin was able to capture the essence of a place untroubled by modernity

Ben Okri on swapping novels for painting: ‘Could these two great rivers of creativity merge?’

The Booker winner has teamed up with Scottish colourist Rosemary Clunie – to follow in the footsteps of word-and-picture masters Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jenny Holzer

‘A truly special spot’: arts insiders’ top tips for free cultural places in Britain

From Russell Tovey to Gemma Cairney, cultural figures pick their favourite hangouts – from Edinburgh to Aberystwyth – with no entry charge

Gauguin’s ‘child-wife’: in search of the muse that inspired a masterpiece

Who is the young girl in Paul Gauguin’s painting Spirit of the Dead Watching? On a trip to Tahiti, the film-maker and novelist Devika Ponnambalam finds out the troubling truth

Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair

A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster – and it all started with a felt-tip

‘Celebrity is religion’: How Andy Warhol kickstarted our obsession with superstars

Kitschy unboxing videos, sunset selfies, TikTok dances: what would the man in the blonde wig make of the world he created, asks Nicole Flattery

‘In the stillness, my mind was able to wander’: how a museum guard found solace in art

After a tragedy, Patrick Bringley swapped his glitzy magazine job to work at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The experience was so profound, he wrote a book about it

On my radar: The Edge’s cultural highlights

The U2 guitarist on the scientific theory that connects us all, drawing on walls and the resurgence of Irish folk music

Boris Johnson recites Oompa-Loompas song in defence of Roald Dahl’s books

Ex-PM criticises sensitivity edit of author’s works – and also rejects sending Parthenon marbles to Greece