Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art

When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response

Rankin designs covers for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy

Exclusive: photographer casts models as characters, creating an amalgam with their ‘dæmons’

Wake review: a must-read graphic history of women-led slave revolts

Rebecca Hall and illustrator Hugo Martínez uncover hidden stories, vital truths and deep, unhealed, intergenerational pain

UK libraries become ‘death positive’ with books and art on dying

Scheme that started in Redbridge to help people talk about difficult subject is rolled out across country

On my radar: Tobias Menzies’s cultural highlights

The star of Game of Thrones and The Crown on his favourite political podcast, a gripping French spy drama, and why the UK hasn’t had enough of experts

The big picture: Ruth Orkin’s modern New York woman, 1949

The photographer’s image of a young grocery shopper brought colour to women’s magazine covers for the first time

Exhibition reveals how Shakespeare’s Hal has excused royal heirs for centuries

New show uncovers a long tradition for princes of Wales to excuse their own behaviour by comparing it to Prince Hal’s

A love from beyond the grave – Kurt Tong on his ‘ghost marriage’ photographs

His latest project, piecing together the story of a bereaved Hong Kong man who wed his dead fiancee, has won an award. The photogapher reveals how it began with the discovery of a trunk of keepsakes

Why Benedict Cumberbatch fell for ‘oddball’ artist and his world of cats

Actor makes plea for tolerance of outsiders as his new film and a book explore the life of Louis Wain

Ban imposed on overseas sale of John Gould’s landmark ornithological studies

Export bar on Gould’s Original Drawings, valued at £1.2m, will run until September to allow domestic institutions time to raise money for purchase

On my radar: Laurent Garnier’s cultural highlights

The French DJ on the TV series Staged, a post-apocalyptic dance show and group therapy for convicts in California

Designing Motherhood: project puts objects shaped by maternity in focus

In a new book and exhibition, the experience and industry of motherhood is viewed through the lens of design

The big picture: Niall McDiarmid’s world on a plate

The Scottish photographer’s shots of his breakfast table suggest planets in alignment at a moment when everything is in its right and proper place

How Tove Jansson’s love of nature shaped the world of the Moomins

The Finnish artist’s work was hugely influenced by her passion for the great outdoors – in particular the tiny island of Klovharun

New exhibition shows Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz’s take on grown-ups

Adults by Schulz at the museum dedicated to the cartoonist in California offers possible glimpse of Charlie Brown’s later life