Larry Sultan’s painterly photographs of swimmers
Partly to confront his own primal fear of the water, the Californian photographer spent years capturing the sometimes ungainly, sometimes balletic dance of humans learning to swim
On my radar: Milly Alcock’s cultural highlights
The Australian star of House of the Dragon and Upright on her favourite podcast, an immersive art experience and a novel of ugly emotions
The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2023 – enter now!
The annual award for aspiring cartoonists offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners going on to land film deals
‘Keep your rosaries off my ovaries’ – the Glasgow library that collects explosive protest art
Glasgow Women’s Library has been collecting examples of the stark graphic brilliance of homemade banners since 1991. We go behind the scenes as they gather their latest: abortion rights placards
Kettle’s Yard: how Britain’s avant garde found a cosy home in Cambridge
A new book celebrates Jim Ede, the patron whose museum-home is a chapel to 20th-century British art – in particular that generation who were driven to search for meaning after the first world war
‘This is not a small issue’: the devastating plight of LGBTQ asylum seekers
A new book highlights both the horror and hope of LGBTQ people from around the world who have sought asylum that has often saved their lives
Gerald Rose obituary
Children’s illustrator whose picture books with his wife, Elizabeth, and authors such as Ted Hughes, are enjoyed worldwide
‘It is hateful and mean’: fighting back with the banned book reading room
With book bans continuing across the US, a museum in New York has assembled a hub for those defying extreme censorship
Natural Light by Julian Bell review – the forgotten German artist who inspired Rembrandt and Rubens
This engrossing history explains why the extraordinary – and tiny – paintings of Adam Elsheimer, who died in poverty in 1610 aged only 32, were revolutionary
The Guardian view on older artists: bridging history and personal life
Editorial: Their new works may be their last, but the contribution of these maestros are still making is invaluable to our world view
Design news: the father of video art, London Craft Week and Frank Lloyd Wright trainers
Read a tome on time, watch a documentary about artist Nam June Paik and marvel at the work of graphic designer Neville Brody
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