Picturebook legend Oliver Jeffers: ‘I’ve got my wife’s bite marks tattooed on my finger’

His beguiling, beautifully drawn children’s books have made him a bedtime colossus. Does the Belfast writer’s latest, which features one of his favourite tattoos, contain a dig at Trump?

The big picture: a hands-on Martin Luther King

Leonard Freed’s image of the civil rights leader is a rare optimistic moment in a series on racial injustice in 60s America

On my radar: Russell Tovey’s cultural highlights

The actor on David Byrne’s kooky show, the joy of mountain walks and a moving memoir by a gay Muslim

Brian Adams’ best photograph: Robert, William and John in an Inuit steam house

‘Many Inuit villages don’t have running water so most homes have a steam house. They go in and just sweat it out’

Michelle Wolf to Melania’s roses: the arts and pop culture that sum up the Trump era

CocoRosie’s call to arms, the rage of Sweat, Arthur Jafa’s white supremacy montage and the first lady’s grand designs … Guardian writers pick the works that encapsulate Trump’s reign

The big picture: a father tries to freeze time

Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson sensed something poignant when he began creating images of his young children

Stuart Durant obituary

Other lives: Lecturer and author of books on design and architectural history

In a ‘good country’ league table, where would the UK stand now?

Disregard for international law does not figure in Simon Anholt’s new book on what makes a nation great

Rejected Tintin artwork to be auctioned with estimate of €3m

Hergé’s original cover for The Blue Lotus auctioned 80 years after it was deemed too colourful

Kissing cowboys: the queer rodeo stars bucking a macho American tradition

Photographer Luke Gilford couldn’t believe his eyes when he first stumbled across a gay rodeo. He set out to capture the joyous, tender, authentic world he saw there

Blood splatters, soul soda and a giant George Michael: inside Brent’s biennial

From a pandemic memorial to stackable cubes and an epic mural of the Wham! star, small and inviting exhibitions keep the focus local in this inaugural festival

Jürgen Schadeberg obituary

South African photographer who covered the struggle against apartheid and won the trust of Nelson Mandela

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 by William Feaver – review

The second volume of Feaver’s compelling biography reveals the ruthlessness behind the artist’s brilliance

Lizzie Sanders obituary

Other lives: Illustrator and historian whose work includes the countryside scene that graces packs of Yorkshire Tea

Stealing from the Saracens by Diana Darke review – a long-overlooked cultural exchange

This persuasive study argues that northern Europe’s greatest gothic buildings are deeply indebted to the Arab world