Lizzie Sanders obituary
Other lives: Illustrator and historian whose work includes the countryside scene that graces packs of Yorkshire Tea
Autumn arts: our critics pick the best shows, film, music, books and TV
The world of culture is raring to go … from Steve McQueen’s first TV drama to Tracey Emin and Munch, here’s our pick of the season
Everyday Heroes: key workers celebrated at Southbank, where hundreds face sack
Artists’ heartfelt tributes to friends and relatives who battled through the Covid pandemic make a striking outdoor portrait show, even as the arts centre’s own workers face redundancies
Judith Black’s best photograph: an intense time with my family on Father’s Day
‘I took group shots of my children whenever they were about to go away on holiday. I’d use them as bookmarks. It meant I still had them with me’
Yorkshire church to be adorned with Chronicles of Narnia statues
St Mary’s church in Beverley commissions sculptures of CS Lewis characters to replace medieval carvings
‘You’ll have to die to get these texts’: Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 94 years’ time
‘If you’re a dude, you may be tensing up’: the woman making art out of mansplainers
Comedy writer Nicole Tersigni got fed up of men explaining her own jokes back to her. So she paired their patronising comments with classical art – and went viral
Sex, lies and text messages: the photographer snapping New Yorkers’ private thoughts
Drug deals, hook-ups, break-ups and secret code – Jeff Mermelstein’s snatched photographs of New Yorkers’ texts reveal that the city still has its wild side
Brian Walker obituary
Other Lives: Cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared in comics, magazines and books
The heat’s back on: our insiders’ guide to 2020’s best summer culture
From art to architecture, from festivals to films, our expert guests spotlight the hottest cultural events of the coming months
Australia is at a turning point in the diversity conversation. Apologies are no longer enough
Across the arts, the racially marginalised carry the burden of exposing entrenched problems, while institutions stay silent
Katie Waggett’s best photograph: Sunday worship with Joy
‘Joy was dancing in church with her children in London. She was in her element – her dress speaks to her sense of cultural pride’
Shaun Tan: ‘We’re not being mean to animals – but there is evil in obliviousness’
What would happen if bears sued humanity and fish left the sea? The author-illustrator of Tales from the Inner City on animal rights, veganism and winning the Kate Greenaway medal
John Furnival obituary
Distinguished artist and teacher best known for his ‘wordscapes’
Stuffed mermaids, baroque masterpieces and David Hockney at dawn – the week in art
Surreal treasures from Europe’s strangest collections, what we’re missing at the National Gallery, and artists respond to George Floyd’s death – all in your weekly dispatch