Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?

From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?

The mystery of the buried owl: the 30-year treasure hunt baffling French puzzlers

Launched in 1993, it has become one of the world’s longest games. So who are the amateur sleuths hoping to hit gold? Photographer Emily Graham joins them on the trail

My brother the superhero: how the death of comic book legend Steve Dillon inspired a creative awakening

Glyn Dillon designed costumes for Star Wars, while his brother Steve created the Preacher comic strip. When Steve died at 54, Glyn bought a ladder and some vast canvases - and poured his grief into painting

Bold Ventures by Charlotte van den Broeck review – architects of their own demise

A poetic tale of 13 flawed buildings that spelled catastrophe for their designers

Anonymous, anti-capitalist and awe-inspiring: were crop circles actually great art?

Dismissed as the work of pranksters, these mysterious flattenings should now be seen as stunning examples of non-profit art for all, says this bestselling author, who recalls the wonder they injected into the 1980s

Something for the weekend: film, music and more for May Day bank holiday

From a spot of Quadrophenia to a good innings with The English Game, our critics suggest art to inspire the best use of your extra day of free time

‘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