Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: ‘She spoke of life from every side’
Artist Gillian Wearing on her new film about the great Victorian novelist’s life
A spirit the Nazis couldn’t erase: Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre? review
Discovered after her death at Auschwitz, the artist’s graphic record of her life unfolds in startlingly poignant scenes, from her mother’s graveside to her lover’s bed
Alison Prince obituary
Artist and children’s author who wrote the script for the BBC’s television classic Trumpton
Fabric of a nation: couple bring the lost art of Pakistan to the world
Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan Askari
Paul Birkbeck obituary
Other lives: Prolific artist and illustrator for BBC children’s television
Robert De Niro on his father’s journals: ‘It was sad for me to read. He had his demons’
Robert De Niro Sr left notebooks that revealed struggles with his sexuality and mental health. His son still can’t bear to read them
The Goldfinch review – Donna Tartt’s art-theft epic has its wings clipped
Nicole Kidman’s fine cameo cannot save an infuriating adaptation that renders a complex novel in broad brushstrokes
Marjorie Blamey obituary
Botanical illustrator who opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowers
‘Barcelona with rain’: Galway promises deluge of culture
Irish city welcomes Atwood and celebrates Homer as 2020 European capital of culture
Robert Frank: the outsider genius whose photographs laid bare America’s soul
His stark masterpiece The Americans changed photography. Yet there was more to this countercultural hero who captured the debauchery of the Stones – and his own personal tragedies
Revolutionary romance novels and Bookers on beer coasters: what we learned at Melbourne writers’ festival
Richard Flanagan reveals how not to lose a first draft, Betty Grumble weaponises art, and intersectional feminism gets raunchy
A book, then a play, now Litvinenko’s story is coming back to the small screen
The murdered Russian dissident’s case is to become an ITV drama. And the National Gallery gets first dibs on a baroque masterpiece
Show me the mummy: the undying allure of ancient Egypt
Paris’s Tutankhamun exhibition is a record-breaking hit – but scarabs, pharaohs and man-eating monsters have been thrilling us for centuries
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver review – Youth: 1922-1968
Lucian Freud lived recklessly and selfishly – and made paintings unlike anything in the history of art
The Observer guide to the best autumn culture
Long-awaited albums, audacious political theatre and TV fit to follow Game of Thrones, plus film, dance, classical and more…