The 10 best things to do this week: Lubaina Himid, Frieze and St Vincent
The Turner nominee addresses the glamorisation of slaves, the famous art fair returns to London and Annie Clark drops her new album
Hairy Maclary author Lynley Dodd on the secret lives of pets
On the release of her new picture book, the acclaimed New Zealand writer and illustrator talks animal antics and her favourite children’s books
My three days at Tracey Emin’s mountain hideaway on the Cote d’Azur
Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has not always been kind about the work of Tracey Emin. So what happened when the artist invited him to stay at her bolthole? And why was she so keen get him in the water?
Land of tassels, swags and sash windows: a swipe at Britain’s pseudo-Georgian wonderland
It’s cheap, boring, shoddy and everywhere. But now artist Pablo Bronstein has turned his love-hate relationship with Britain’s ‘pseudo-Georgian’ architecture into a delightful show
Bernard Dunstan obituary
Artist renowned for his luminous paintings of nudes, musicians and Venice
Kate Millett, pioneering second-wave feminist, dies aged 82
Author, activist and artist whose 1970 book Sexual Politics was a bestselling and hugely influential critique of patriarchal ideology
Lydia Towsey: how I discovered the Venus in me
From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a path to explore new ways of looking at female bodies
The Book of Emma Reyes review – an artist’s astonishing memories
This memoir of childhood and adolescence written in the form of letters by the Colombian painter recalls days of profound poverty and neglect
Tattoos, gravediggers and traffic cones: the KLF take Liverpool
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are staging a three-day series of events to mark their collaborative return after 23 years – and they’ve already formed a new band, Badger Kull, after day one
Ronnie Wood: ‘Bowie’s death especially affected me – we were the same age’
Veteran rocker Ronnie Wood, 70, on beating cancer, becoming a father again – to twins – and his retrospective book of his own art
Collection of Yeats family treasures to go on display for first time
Letters from poet WB Yeats to his first love, and artwork by his brother, sisters and father, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s
Gainsborough by James Hamilton review – the painter’s secret sauciness
An astute biography casts a new light on famous paintings and underlines the importance of the artist’s risque private life
Cézanne unmasked: the shattering portraits that blew Picasso and the Paris avant garde away
He painted his wife without lips. He painted his friend with a spinal deformity. And he painted himself as a ghost in a top hat. Paul Cézanne’s unflinching portraits, coming to Britain this autumn, didn’t just astonish Picasso and his disciples. They changed art for ever
The Observer critics’ guide to the summer holidays
Make cultural hay while the sun shines with our reviewers’ suggestions, from dreamy R&B to vintage Keanu Reeves to op art in the country
Pig tales – the swine in books and art
From medieval manuscripts to Beatrix Potter pigs have taken a starring role