How painter Winifred Knights became Britain’s ‘unknown genius’
Knights’ use of classical subjects in a modern age made her the most promising painter of the 1920s. So why is she only now receiving her first retrospective exhibition?
Douglas Coupland seeks Van Gogh lookalikes for art project
Generation X author offers €5,000 prize to person who most closely resembles red-haired painter
On my radar: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s cultural highlights
The actor and singer on Edgar Degas, a great documentary about Nina Simone, Budapest’s brilliant Turkish baths and Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes
David Hockney among friends: a triumphant return to portraiture
In the wake of a personal tragedy, Hockney embarked on a new project: to capture his wide social circle in defiantly exuberant tones
Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq’s head
The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
Dave Hickey: ‘The title of artist has to be earned’
The art critic and essayist may have retired from the art world – but he’s still thinking and writing about art, why Donald Trump has charisma, and how Joan Mitchell was the best painter of her generation
Edward Bawden’s scrapbook: a wondrous almanac of one man’s sensibility
The collected scrapbooks of the artist and designer Edward Bawden bulge with interest and beauty
Back from the dead: the photographer turning forensics into portraiture
Arne Svenson spent years crossing America and Mexico photographing forensic reconstructions of anonymous victims’ faces
Ann Prior obituary
Other lives: Cook, author, artist and adventurer who contrived to live in perpetual summer
This is Garth England: the milkman who drew Bristol from memory
He roamed his city’s streets all his life, delivering papers, telegrams and milk – and recorded what he saw in naive but meticulous drawings decades later
Hugh Honour obituary
Art historian whose innovative approach and breadth of reference transformed his discipline
Molly Crabapple: the sketcher blurring activism and art
Armed with her paintbrush, the illustrator and journalist is redefining reportage with her portraits of Guantánamo Bay, Trump and Syrian refugees
Glasgow gangster turned writer Jimmy Boyle: ‘I would be dead now without books’
The convicted murderer set the standard for prison writing with A Sense of Freedom in 1977. As it is republished, he talks about honour, violence and redemption as a novelist and sculptor
Picasso: his art was an expression of what it means to be alive
Children’s author and illustrator Ed Vere tells us why he finds Picasso so compelling – along with the children he meets who also draw without compromise
Cadavers in pearls: meet the Anatomical Venus
They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models