Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be ‘honoured’ with his schlong out?

Was a tiny, silver, ripped nude really the correct way to honour ‘the mother of feminism’? Admirers like me never expected to be left contemplating whether she had a full bush

Tim Olsen on getting out from under the shadow of his famous father John: ‘He’s not a demigod’

John Olsen’s Australian landscapes captured the world’s imagination but to his son the artist was akin to a deity – until he wasn’t

Our Days Are Like Full Years by Harriet Pattison review – moving and heroic

Life as the lover of the restless US architect Louis Kahn was fulfilling – but never easy

Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part one

As parts of the UK enters another month – at least – of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits

Look Again by David Bailey review – girls, camera, action

The fashion photographer and documenter of 60s London looks back in the company of old friends and lovers in a raw and surprising memoir

Viral humour: spoof Peter and Jane make sense of the pandemic

The artist behind the Ladybird-style series on how her absurdly surreal new book is her answer to coping with coronavirus

On my radar: Elizabeth Strout’s cultural highlights

The novelist on the comfort of Edward Hopper, visiting a ghost town in Maine, and singing while scrubbing the bathtub

‘A roadmap to redemption’: how a photographer helped a prisoner see beyond his cage

After a Minnesota inmate wrote to Alec Soth on impulse this year, the two began a freewheeling exchange of ideas on culture and isolation that developed into an astonishing new book

Look Again by David Bailey review – no reflection, no regret

Juicy anecdotes, a huge amount of sex and stories of the Krays … but the photographer’s memoir reveals a narcissist and bully

Claire Wilcox: ‘When I look at clothing, I’m thinking about narratives’

The V&A’s fashion curator has written an acclaimed memoir about her life among the many dresses, hats, shoes and other items the museum houses

Shalom Schotten obituary

Other lives: Graphic designer for Thames & Hudson who worked closely with artists such as David Hockney

On my radar: John Cooper Clarke’s cultural highlights

The poet on vintage TV, elegant writing about architecture and Dylan’s endearing take on the Great American Songbook

Not all doom and gloom: UK cultural highlights for autumn

From books to ballet, from big to small screen, from art to theatre, there is much to enjoy despite the pandemic

Carla Bruni’s teenage obsessions: ‘Francis Bacon shows our confusion, desire, madness’

As she returns with a new album, the French chanteuse recalls the genius of the Clash and Henry James, plus encounters with Balearic naturists

Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain’s working class, dies aged 74

Influential artist, hailed by Martin Parr as a ‘key player’ in British photography, captured human dignity amid industrial decline in England’s north-east