Pure imagination: illustrator Robert Ingpen on the value of childhood dreaming
The only Australian to win the Hans Christian Andersen award for illustration, Ingpen reflects on Poppykettle, Dickens and his 50-year career
The 10 best… things to do this week
From Miranda Sings on Netflix to the Feminist Avant-Garde Of The 1970s exhibition, here’s your at-a-glance guide to the best in culture across the UK
Sjón is Future Library’s next recruit to become a 22nd-century author
The Icelandic writer joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell in creating a work to be locked away in Norway until 2114, as part of Katie Paterson’s art installation
Salvador Dalí’s surreal cookbook set to be Christmas bestseller
Reissue of the lavish compilation of recipes, Les Diners de Gala, features dishes such as conger eel of the rising sun and frog pasties
Adam Phillips: ‘Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind’
The psychoanalyst and writer on an exhibition he’s created about ‘the vulgar’, and when taste becomes narrow-mindedness
Villainy and visionaries: how Caravaggio’s followers saw the light
Revered as a worker of miracles, reviled as a violent offender, Caravaggio became one of the most influential painters in Europe. Now a major new exhibition will give his followers the recognition they too deserve
Paul Nash: the artist in words and pictures
A new edition of the war artist’s wonderful memoir Outline is out – plus Dave McKean’s dark graphic novel inspired by it
Martians, music and mud: how the Thames Estuary broadened cultural horizons
It was Conrad’s gateway to the heart of darkness, HG Wells envisaged Martians on its misty shores. Now artists from around the world are exploring the mysteries of the Thames Estuary
Edward Morris obituary
Other lives: Art historian, curator and founder editor of the acclaimed Public Sculpture of Britain series
On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlights
The stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O’Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterie
‘She seemed shy. Then suddenly this wild beast came out’ – my 10 years shooting Kate Bush
The decaying spacesuit, the Kabuki makeup, the Joan Collins shoulderpads … photographer Guido Harari recalls chronicling the pop star’s many guises
Alex Danchev obituary
Historian and biographer who explored the political and ethical force of art
Out of South Africa: how politics animated the art of William Kentridge
A new series of shows in the UK reveal how Kentridge uses drawings, film, sculpture, tapestry and performance to probe the history of art and South Africa’s past
Brian Wildsmith obituary
Illustrator of children’s picture books whose vivid use of colour became his trademark
Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison review – a star-studded tribute to Oscar Wilde
Our critic goes behind bars for a tour of Artangel’s new installation of work by everyone from Ai Weiwei and Marlene Dumas to Steve McQueen