In brief: One Woman Show; Normal Women; Inciting Joy – reviews
A spry story of art’s interplay with power; Philippa Gregory charts 900 years of weavers, nuns and housewives; and Ross Gay waxes lyrical in a rambling collection of essays
On my radar: Es Devlin’s cultural highlights
The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics
Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?
From Bosch’s crazed party to the homoerotic images Michelangelo smuggled into the Vatican, this was an age of taboo-busting. And, as our writer argues in a new book, it sparked its own culture wars
On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights
The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean
On my radar: Oneohtrix Point Never’s cultural highlights
The experimental musician and producer on a mind-blowing Guatemalan cellist, the joys of ‘smear frames’ in old-school animated films and his favourite brand of vegan caviar
‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes
A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images
Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government
Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted over
The big picture: when Nick Waplington became a wedding photographer
After documenting the colourful family life of his grandfather’s neighbour Janet in his first book, Waplington ended up capturing her big day
‘Used as dartboards’: rare British war comic art rescued from bins, skips and floods
Original drawings and paintings from 60s and 70s comics such as Hotspur and Commando will feature in an exhibition in Oxfordshire
‘The most fun!’ Paul Simon unveils collaboration with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse illustrator
Charlie Mackesy created his new drawings while listening to Simon’s music, the pair explain at the exhibition launch, with Simon outlining how the Covid-19 pandemic helped his creativity
Big Panda author using proceeds to set up animal sanctuary in Swansea
Exclusive: James Norbury says he is fulfilling pledge made after his debut book landed him a six-figure deal
New horizons: music, art, books and more to get out of a rut
From hit novels by late bloomers to artists turned chess masters, our critics select culture that revels in reinvention
Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’
The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider’s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight
On my radar: Naomi Klein’s cultural highlights
The Canadian author and activist on the self-deprecating comedy of Mae Martin, a mind-altering memoir, and the singer she drove miles to see live
‘A towering figure’: celebrating the impact of art critic Leo Steinberg
A new book, The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas, looks at the expansive collection and defining criticism of the ground-breaking art critic