On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights
The ceramicist and writer on the poetry of Louise Glück, the music of Max Richter and the best secret meeting spot in London
Cultural prescription: film, books, plays and more to help you embrace autumn
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream to When Harry Met Sally, Guardian critics suggest comforting culture for the changing seasons
Mel Gooding obituary
Writer on art who undertook interviews for the Artists’ Lives oral history project at the British Library
Breakfast time: Christopher Anderson’s best phone picture
‘My daughter has this comedic flair, this sense of timing’
Covid car parks to galactic lockdown: fascinating but futile quarantine ideas
Whether atomic priesthoods, 50ft concrete spikes or burying astronauts in concrete, humanity’s attempts to keep free from infection are examined in Until Proven Safe
Cultural prescription: plays, films, books and more to help you start university
From Educating Rita to The Secret History, Guardian critics suggest some comfort viewing and listening to take on campus
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt – review
An accessible new biography by the director of the V&A repositions the potter as not only a giant of design and manufacturing but a model of the best an entrepreneur can be
Home tweet home: how an illustrator captured the intricacy of bird nests
When Susan Ogilvy starting painting nests in her garden she realised there were few pictorial accounts of these complex creations
‘Better ugly than boring’: book celebrates bizarre Belgian houses
Hannes Coudenys’ Ugly Belgian Houses updated with more from the ‘chaos known as Belgium’
‘Something magical happens’: the cameras helping refugee children to heal
We talk to the person behind an extraordinary project in Turkey, where children, most of them refugees, have been given old analogue cameras and taught the art of photography
Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’
Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phase
Rita Keegan: the return of black British art’s forgotten pioneer
She was a crucial part of a cultural movement in the 1980s. Now a first solo exhibition in 15 years will allow her work to shine
On my radar: Cornelia Parker’s cultural highlights
The Turner prize shortlisted artist on funny cat videos, a giant pineapple and the song that makes her spine tingle
Two pints of lager and a view of St Paul’s: the secret life of London’s most thrilling boozers
What makes a pub special? From the perfect place to flog atomic secrets to the official strictly protected viewpoint for St Paul’s, a new book tells the amazing stories behind the city’s greatest bars
Queen of Denmark hired as set designer on new Netflix film
Queen Margrethe II, the reigning Danish monarch, will add an adaptation of Karen Blixen’s fantasy novel Ehrengard to her two previous screen credits