‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

Lucian Freud exhibition held at Freud Museum for the first time

Exhibition in Sigmund Freud’s family home in Hampstead marks Lucian’s 100th anniversary

The Velvet Queen review – powerful hymn to the land of the snow leopard

This account of a photography expedition in Tibet goes beyond usual nature documentary territory in its writerly contemplation of the wild

The art of resilience: how the museum has endured through crisis

In a new book, author Samuel Redman looks back on times of strife and how arts institutions have responded and survived

Previously unseen Lucian Freud etchings to be published for first time

Definitive study will include early versions of the revered 20th-century artist’s most famous creations

Snip it up and start again: the woman who’s reworking the photography canon

Photographer Justine Kurland has sliced and collaged images from 150 renowned books by white male photographers from Brassaï to Stephen Shore. She explains why

‘Spain is ugly’: El País editor takes on his country’s ‘cultural catastrophe’

Andrés Rubio charts the growth of towering megahotels and half-built structures in a provocative new book

Stalin’s Architect by Deyan Sudjic review – a monumental life

His work helped define the grand style of Soviet buildings, but was Boris Iofan a stooge, a propagandist or a victim of circumstance?

Jeweller Theo Fennell: ‘Being called the king of bling is better than the prince of darkness’

The high-class jeweller on switching from silversmithing to memoir-writing to keep up with his daughters, including the film-maker Emerald, in lockdown

The idea of breathing: on being an artist in regional Australia

Painter Lucy Culliton, musician Michael Simic and writer Robyn Cadwallader reflect on the creative power of country NSW

David McKee obituary

Creator of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant and Mr Benn, who wrote and illustrated children’s classics

‘A completely different language’: how Ukrainian writers and artists are responding to the war

Across the arts, creators are producing poignant, direct work at speed at the front line of Russia’s war of aggression

Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul review – a woman in her own image

The painter conveys her spiritual connection with a fellow obsessive and ascetic artist in this fascinating book of imagined correspondence that lays bare the creative process

Modern Buildings in Britain review – a phenomenal work of gathering and observation

From a radar station in Fleetwood to the BBC’s Cardiff studios, Owen Hatherley’s generous survey of modernist architecture is insightful and surprising

Christopher Alexander obituary

Architect and theorist who believed in creating human-centred buildings, drawing on new technology and ancient traditions