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Rare Andy Warhol cookbook Wild Raspberries goes to auction

Collection of recipes written in 1959 with Suzie Frankfurt to poke fun at fashionable haute cuisine is one of only 34 copies made

Guardians of UK’s literary jewels at risk in V&A plan to cut key library staff

Two-thirds of librarians will lose their jobs in restructuring at London museum under new proposals

‘You worry you’ll be seen as weak’: single dads in their own words – a photo essay

From teaching them to ride bikes to overcoming unimaginable grief, Harry Borden’s portraits reveal the intimate bonds that grow between single fathers and their children

‘My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room’: the artists reclaiming women’s sexuality

A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera

Kate Kelly’s role in her family’s infamous history has been overlooked for too long

Ned Kelly’s little sister was as famous as the Kardashians in her day. So why do we ignore her story?

Drawing comfort: the sketchbooks that got Chris Riddell through 2020

For the Observer’s cartoonist, keeping a daily pictorial record of events was the only way to make sense of last year. A new book was the result

Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare review – his greatest work yet

The gifted writer summons the eclectic travels of Albrecht Dürer with passion, poignancy, pure wonder and a personal twist

Writ in water, preserved in plaster: how Keats’ death mask became a collector’s item

The recent sale of a cast for £12,500 is a testament to the Romantic poet’s enduring legacy, on the bicentenary of his death

The world in one park: Irina Rozovsky’s best photograph

‘If you’re standing still on a New York street, you’re either lost or crazy. But on the shores of this lake, I saw real stillness for the first time’

Philip Guston’s daughter on his Klan paintings: ‘They’re about white culpability – including his own’

The postponement last year of an exhibition of the artist’s work led to a fraught debate over race and culture

‘We wanted people to see that we exist’: the photographer who recorded lesbian life in the 70s

She toured America photographing women like herself, at time when being out could cost you your job, home and family. As Eye to Eye, a book of her groundbreaking work is republished, Joan E Biren, known as JEB, recalls why the images were so vitally important

What’s in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married

A new biography of the painter Isabel Rawsthorne highlights how talented women have often missed out on the recognition they deserved

The big picture: a different side to Glasgow’s tenements

Scottish photographer Douglas Corrance’s shots from the 70s and 80s reject gritty images of poverty in favour of colour and character

‘I document America’s strange beauty’: the photography of My Name Is Earl’s Jason Lee

He played a redemption-seeking redneck on TV, but lately the actor has found solace off-screen, travelling with his camera. He talks about slackers, the Mallrats sequel and breezing into one-horse towns

How Edward Lear’s artistic genius led to the Owl and the Pussycat

A new paperback edition containing over a dozen unseen works shows the nonsense poet’s prowess as a natural history painter

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