Howard Jacobson: ‘At an event for my book Pussy, there are three nuns in the front row’

Afterwards, Sister Rosa proposes a group photograph. What is the etiquette?

On my radar: Iwona Blazwick’s cultural highlights

The Whitechapel Gallery director on her Fargo addiction, the best music venue in the California desert and JW Anderson’s fusion of sculpture and couture

‘He took sex to the point of oblivion’: Tracey Emin on her hero Egon Schiele

His work was once dismissed as porn. But the pain, anger and sexual frustration in Egon Schiele’s writhing nudes electrified Tracey Emin’s adolescence – and gave her a purpose that has never waned. She talks our writer through his stormiest work

The hot list: what to do this summer

From treetop spas to secret festivals, and ice cream doughnuts to quirky cocktails, here’s our ultimate guide to having fun this summer

‘I wasn’t cock-a-hoop that I’d fooled the experts’: Britain’s master forger tells all

Shaun Greenhalgh has turned his hand to everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Lowry. He’s been to prison, but has never revealed the whole picture. Until now

Marvin E Newman’s best photograph – coated sunbathers in 1950s Coney Island

‘I wanted to show well-off people the underclass – where they lived, how they lived, what they did’

Hokusai and Graham Fagen: this week’s best UK exhibitions

The British Museum goes beyond the Japanese artist’s famous wave print, while slavery is considered from the point of view of an 18th-century African

‘Are you FBI?’ – how I captured the everyday life of an LA housing project

Imperial Courts is a place most Americans have only seen from a helicopter camera. But, over the course of two decades, photographer Dana Lixenberg chronicled its characters and everyday life

I’ve created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan

Mass migration and climate change – not to mention a giant squid: Leviathan has it all. As his wildly ambitious new work opens in Venice, he reveals the story behind a strange odyssey that will take years to complete

On the edge of madness: the terrors and genius of Alberto Giacometti

He drank with Sartre, mocked Picasso and took silent walks with Beckett – but his work was going nowhere until a vision on Boulevard Montparnasse left him trembling. Ahead of a major Tate show, we explore the obsessions of Giacometti

Don’t look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world

Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery

‘Freud would have had a field day’: Sidney Nolan and the menage à trois that made him

Australia’s greatest artist, famed for his paintings of a black-helmeted Ned Kelly, owed everything to a free-spirited couple from Melbourne who took him in. Why did he turn his back on them?

My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington

Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealier

Against the law: the LGBT artists branded criminals

Fifty years after homosexuality was decriminalised, the Tate’s Queer British Art show explores a history of refuge and rebellion

Posters to reveal entire text of book about fighting tyranny

Timothy Snyder’s manual for resisting populism, On Tyranny, to be pasted in full on a street in east London