Wolfgang Held obituary
Other lives: Writer, artist and translator who brought key British and Irish literary figures to a wider German public
Cosey Fanni Tutti: ‘I don’t like acceptance. It makes me think I’ve done something wrong’
As a member of COUM and Throbbing Gristle, Cosey Fanni Tutti made art that was so shocking, the police ran them out of Hull. But now they’re being invited back – and celebrated in galleries. Here she talks about how they survived
Jean Fisher obituary
Other lives: Writer who was a champion of art as a radical practice
George W Bush’s talent as a painter finds an ironic muse: the combat veteran
In his new book Portraits of Courage, the subjects of the former president’s paintings are the very men torn to shreds, quite literally, by his own policy
On my radar: Agnès B’s cultural highlights
The French fashion designer on being linked to David Bowie’s Blackstar, her love of David Lynch and her favourite Paris eatery
Entire art gallery of Ladybird book covers is world first
Archive of artworks from a century of the imprint’s simple, wholesome worldview go on display at Museum of English Rural Life
Alan Aldridge obituary
Artist behind some of the most striking pop images of the 1960s and 70s
So you want to be an artist? Then let the pros show you how it’s done
DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top – and how you can too
From Frankenstein to feminism: how electricity powered our imaginations
A new exhibition charts the changing place of electricity in our lives, our homes and in literature
New Zealand’s surprising history of art crime: ‘I continue to be flabbergasted’
Global art crime is big business, and New Zealand is not exempt. It has its fair share of mystery disappearances, audacious forgers and stolen European art
Bosch and Bruegel review – more gripping than a thriller
Two master painters of the macabre and the mundane come together in Joseph Leo Koerner’s frightening, fascinating study
Christo cancels artwork to protest Trump – but we need his vision
The legendary land artist has wrapped up a Colorado installation after decades of planning in disgust at Donald Trump. But artists must allow their work itself to be the dissenting voice
Rogues’ Gallery by Philip Hook review – the gullible rich and the art market
This expert and elegant history of art dealers provides background to today’s art world, funded by ‘idiots with pretensions’
Who threw a better party: David Walsh or the Great Gatsby?
Mona Foma promised a Gatsby-style weekend, so we put it to the test: how does the festival stack up against the parties in F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic book?
Los Angeles, lovers and light: David Hockney at 80
From cool blue pools in LA to Yorkshire woodland to desert highways, a major Tate retrospective to mark Hockney’s 80th birthday celebrates his vibrant vision