Angela O’Keeffe on Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles – and engaging with the art of awful men
The writer’s ingenious debut Night Blue is narrated by Australia’s most infamous and triumphant canvas: Blue Poles
If you like salmon, don’t read this: the art duo exposing a booming £1bn market
Farmed salmon can end up deformed, blind, riddled with sea lice and driven to eat each other. Eco art activists Cooking Sections are highlighting their plight – and getting Tate to change its menus
Peter Forster obituary
Other lives: Wood engraver, illustrator and print maker whose work was characterised by an irreverent sense of humour
People are wary of pandemic art – but it will help us process the trauma of the time
Spanish flu was largely absent in mainstream culture. But like Aids, the grief and fury around Covid is ripe for channelling, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Cyril Mango obituary
Prolific scholar of the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire
Female street photographers on their art: ‘It’s about being in the present’
In a new book, women from an often male-dominated discipline talk about their work and their inspiration
How Van Gogh paid for his mentally ill sister’s care decades after his death
The troubled artist’s paintings failed to make him a living but as a new book of letters shows, his legacy enabled his sibling to get the treatment he lacked
On my radar: Monique Roffey’s cultural highlights
The Costa-winning author on enjoying Sade with a glass of wine, Line of Duty and why the Caribbean’s female writers need to be heard
Faith Ringgold: ‘I’m not going to see riots and not paint them’
In a 70-year career, Ringgold has shown the US its bloody, brutal side. And yet the artist started out wanting to paint landscapes … She talks about growing up during the Harlem Renaissance and her battles with the establishment
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie review – five centuries of the female gaze
A sprawling history of women’s self-portraits rattles along without ever really getting under the skin of the artists in question
Hergé’s heirs sue artist over his Tintin/Edward Hopper mashups
Xavier Marabout has been accused in a French court of ‘taking advantage of the reputation of a character to immerse him in an erotic universe’
Artists may have felt useless in lockdown, but we need them more than ever
The pandemic has shown us that a life with just the ‘basics’ of food and healthcare isn’t enough, says author and literary critic Alice O’Keeffe
Rare Andy Warhol cookbook Wild Raspberries goes to auction
Collection of recipes written in 1959 with Suzie Frankfurt to poke fun at fashionable haute cuisine is one of only 34 copies made
‘You worry you’ll be seen as weak’: single dads in their own words – a photo essay
From teaching them to ride bikes to overcoming unimaginable grief, Harry Borden’s portraits reveal the intimate bonds that grow between single fathers and their children
‘My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room’: the artists reclaiming women’s sexuality
A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera