This way for Bums and Tums! The discreet charm of the village hall

Bleak, bulky yet strangely beautiful, village halls are the beating heart of rural Britain, where great events happen for £8 an hour. We meet a photographer celebrating these harmonious hubs

Reviewing the arts in lockdown: ‘Life is lonelier, but also more thoughtful’

Guardian critics on working from their living rooms, and why wifi could be the saviour of culture

Powderfinger, Paul Kelly, Adam Liaw and more: the best live streams for Australia and beyond

The Brisbane band’s one-off reunion is just one of many big things happening on a small screen near you. Here’s what’s coming up

‘Colour allows us to understand in a deeper sense’: Hitler, Churchill and others in a new light

The story of global conflict is all the more powerful when it isn’t seen in black and white. Artist Marina Amaral explains her latest work

Confessions of an art critic: ‘I have been known to go about on all fours’

Hurling himself on the floor, flinging himself onto a bench, crawling about on all fours … our reviewer explains his extreme gallery behaviour

Leading writers take up ‘darkness residencies’ for art project

Bernardine Evaristo, Max Porter and Raymond Antrobus rise to artist Sam Winston’s challenge in A Delicate Sight to submit to time in blackout

Contemporary artistic works mark 75th anniversary of VE Day

Online exhibition of art, poetry and music explores themes around conflict and victory

‘They were forgotten’: the great female cartoonists who have been overlooked

In a new online exhibition, the work of 50 women in comics is being celebrated from the late 19th century to the present day

Apocalyptic vision: the unsettling beauty of lockdown is pure sci-fi

The streets lie silent, the skies are clear, as office buildings reflect our empty cities. Coronavirus has brought with it the same eerie scenes that have long haunted the modern imagination

Confessions of an art critic: I can’t believe the things I write in my notebooks

From felt-tipped obscenities to sketches of his aunt stolen at a tube station, our reviewer writes about his life in the margins

A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude

Paul Mpagi Sepuya started out taking shots of his friends naked. His work, in which sitters often face away, has now earned comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe – and even Caravaggio

Tim Robinson obituary

Writer and cartographer who documented the landscapes of the west coast of Ireland in a series of influential books

How we made the Keep Calm and Carry On poster

‘When I’m asked why it’s so popular, I always say the same thing: it’s cheaper than antidepressants’

Letters reveal postnatal crisis of Barbara Hepworth

Previously unpublished correspondence sheds new light on artist’s struggle to pursue career while caring for triplets alone

The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times

Hidden away in a chateau in Angers is the beautiful Apocalypse Tapestry, made after war and pestilence had killed millions in medieval Europe. It is, quite literally, a Revelation