Experience: I live as William Morris for three months a year
It’s made me feel it’s OK to be an artist with a social purpose, though my wife hates the beard
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John
Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography
Joy Schaverien obituary
Psychoanalyst and art therapist hailed for her bestselling 2015 book Boarding School Syndrome
Post your questions for Cosey Fanni Tutti
As the Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey musician and writer releases new album 2t2, she will be answering your questions
‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books
New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books
Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s
The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a whole
Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived
Exhibition of rarely seen paintings by Cassandra Austen is part of events marking 250th anniversary of author’s birth
On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights
The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden
Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence
The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiography
Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario
Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame
From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to us
On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights
The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsen
William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’
Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis
The big idea: should we abolish art?
Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
Vincent Fantauzzo on childhood abuse, Heath Ledger and what’s wrong with the art world: ‘I was destined to fail’
Now one of Australia’s most successful artists, Fantauzzo opens up on his traumatic childhood in his memoir – with stories not even his wife Asher Keddie knew