‘Pull back the shroud of mystery’: Joan Didion’s revealing estate sale
The often secretive author’s belongings will be available to bid for at an expansive and eye-opening auction
On my radar: Lykke Li’s cultural highlights
The Swedish singer and songwriter on stalking Kendrick Lamar, brutalist food in Stockholm, and why she gravitates towards people and nudity
Get stuffed: TV, art, books and more devoted to food, glorious food
From music extolling the virtues of red beets to chilli-based larks, our critics select culture to make you salivate
Ken Campbell obituary
Other lives: Book artist who designed and printed by letterpress and whose work is collected in the US Library of Congress
Prima-donna dramas and hedonist paintings: the best culture about Europe
From misty travelogues to the bitchiest of bureaux, our critics select music, tv, literature, art and film that celebrates life on the continent
Barbara Chase-Riboud: ‘The so-called culture war has nothing to do with culture’
The artist danced with James Baldwin, was helped by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and sculpted Malcolm X. Now she’s received the only honour she ever wanted
Brian Catling obituary
Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’
‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings
In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed
Suzi Gablik obituary
Other lives: Artist and writer of influential books on the ecological and social function of art
Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale – and is impossible to read
The 21,450-page volume of manga series One Piece is physically unreadable, to highlight how comics now exist as commodities
On my radar: Maggie O’Farrell’s cultural highlights
The novelist on a mesmerising mime show, the brilliance of Barbara Hepworth and the best falafel in Edinburgh
The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?
This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock
Folio from ‘world masterpiece’ illuminated manuscript goes up for auction
Section of the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh is expected to fetch between £4m and £6m at auction next month
‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters
Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’
Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review – paradise with a runcible spoon
The master of nonsense verse made his living as an artist – and these magical sketches from his travels are dreamlike delights