‘Her tragedy is to look like me’: Jim Broadbent’s graphic novel
What does an Oscar-winning actor do with time on his hands? Team up with cartoonist Dix to tell the story of a vengeful 17th-century peasant
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson review – life transformed by art
Reinventing themselves and resisting Nazi occupation: the French surrealists Claude Cahun and her lover Marcel Moore inspire a taut, magnificently controlled novel
On my radar: Craig Brown’s cultural highlights
The satirist and author on comedian Kieran Hodgson, his favourite celebrity dispute and the energy of Rodin
Whitstable Biennale review – art with a fish-and-chips flavour
The coastal town plays host to a biennale with a brain, where dreams take over and home is a place that may not exist
Prince Charles commissions artworks of Transylvania’s wild flora
Watercolours celebrating Romanian region’s world-renowned floral diversity will be exhibited and published
Why I filled a 50,000-litre aquarium with plastic debris
When Douglas Coupland found debris from the Japanese earthquake washing up in Canada, he became fascinated by the centrality of plastic in our lives
Lost, stolen, blown up and fed to pigs: the greatest missing masterpieces
Their whereabouts may be a mystery. But these treasures by the likes of Leonardo, Caravaggio and Jan van Eyck could still turn up. If you’re a budding Indiana Jones, here are some clues to start you on your quest…
Maggi Hambling picked to create Mary Wollstonecraft statue
Long-awaited memorial aims to capture spirit and strength of the ‘foremother of feminism’
What have the royals ever done for the arts?
From the RSC to the ROH, Britain’s most prestigious arts institutions are all by royal appointment. But as Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, is it goodbye Royal Variety Show and hello Royal Reprezent FM?
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford – review
A superb biography of the postwar painters whose fresh techniques and ideas energised art captures their resolve – and the bond between them
‘Painting is a high-wire act’: Olivia Laing on sitting for the artist Chantal Joffe
While being painted, author Olivia Laing pens her own portrait of Chantal Joffe and hears why painting is like hairdressing
Whistler’s Mother review – a painting that’s not what it seems
A meticulous study of Anna Whistler, by Daniel E Sutherland and Georgia Toutziari, is a treasure trove of odd information
Reg Gadney obituary
Artist, television scriptwriter and author of thrillers featuring unheroic heroes
Michael E Northrup’s best photograph: his wife Pam lactating
‘She could squirt breast milk eight feet. After our 10th year together, I noticed she was really starting to tire of posing for me’
Modernists and Mavericks by Martin Gayford review – Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London painters
An immersive history of painting from 1945 to the 1970s draws on a huge archive of the author’s interviews