‘There are plenty of schlongs in art’ – Maggi Hambling defends her nude sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft

Her tribute to the feminist icon caused outrage at last month’s unveiling, but the artist has no regrets. She hits back at her critics – and explains why this women’s rights pioneer had to be naked

‘It was a little awkward’ – how Rick Schatzberg shot his old friends topless

They grew up in a ‘nowhere’ suburb in the 70s, smoking skunk, going for rides and dating girls. The photographer reveals why he decided to capture the ravages of time on his old childhood gang

Barefoot in thorns: Gaza through the eyes of a Palestinian photographer

My Gaza by Jehad al-Saftawi is a personal account of peoples’ suffering as they go about their lives under Israeli blockade

Roger Farrand obituary

Other lives: Publisher of scientific journals who became a champion of artists’ printmaking

James Fox: ‘Keith Richards has a fantastic memory’

The ghostwriter behind the memoirs of Keith Richards and David Bailey on difficult subjects

Two polar bears come sniffing in the Arctic night: Esther Horvath’s best photograph

‘I heard from the ship that two bears were walking directly towards us. I told the scientists to pack up. When they said no, I showed no mercy’

Ralph Steadman: ‘We’re really living in a hell of a year, aren’t we?’

The outspoken artist talks about his new book arriving in an ‘absolutely weird’ year and why Trump remains ‘the worst person in our known history’

Arts world dismayed at fate of London home of Rimbaud and Verlaine

Georgian house where infamous French poets lodged was to become an arts centre – but its owner has had a change of heart

‘Some of the darkest places in the world’: Joaquin Phoenix on a photobook about slaughterhouses

In Hidden, 40 photographers go inside factory farms and abattoirs to create a global indictment of the meat industry. Warning: contains images you may find upsetting

Milkman to Mark Twain: online exhibition celebrates telephones in literature

Crossed Lines connects with bookworms and technology buffs in era when phones central for communication

‘This is our truth’: the world’s first graphic novel made by homeless people

A new crowdfunded book aims to challenge perceptions of homelessness – and change the lives of the people who wrote it

The bigger picture: should British museums sell to stay afloat?

As galleries auction off treasures to retain staff and plug cash gaps left by Covid, the art world is divided on ethics of disposal

On my radar: Jay Bernard’s cultural highlights

The poet on logic puzzles, sweetcorn ribs and listening to Idles on repeat

‘Treasure trove’ of unseen Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney writing found

Affectionate friendship between the two poets and artist Barrie Cooke, united by a love of fishing, revealed in a collection of correspondence that was believed lost

Virginia Woolf statue fundraiser flooded with donations after Wollstonecraft controversy

Campaign to fund statue by sculptor Laury Dizengremel of the author in Richmond receives thousands of pounds after naked Wollstonecraft statue divides public