On my radar: Yotam Ottolenghi’s cultural highlights
The chef on a novel that triumphantly captures messy London life, a Turkish Netflix drama that shows Istanbul’s split worlds and the app that gets him going in the morning
Comedian turned artist Joe Lycett: ‘If it’s too earnest a painting, it’s a failure’
The standup is building on his success at the Royal Academy summer exhibition with a book of his work, Art Hole. So has he gone all highbrow? The art reveals all …
In brief: Small Bomb at Dimperley; The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020; The Story of Art Without Men – review
A well-structured postwar romance; a fascinating Irish history; and saluting female artists painted into the margins
Graham Rawle obituary
Author, artist and designer who created the collage series Lost Consonants for the Guardian in 1990
Charles Blackman was devoted to my mother. Their love story needs to be told
My parent’s marriage spanned a quarter of a century. His letters, kept by mother, Barbara, are steeped in intense passion, creativity and youth
‘It shouldn’t be a bucket list place’: these people went to Antarctica. They hope you don’t
As Antarctic tourism grows, so does the environmental impact. Now scientists and artists who work on the continent hope to encourage us to admire from afar
Five of the best novels about art
Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own works
Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women
Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be told
On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights
The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead
A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber review – pocket portraits that are a breath of fresh air
Star interviewer, provoker of the Chapman brothers and the woman who made Howard Hodgkin cry… Barber’s slim book about her obsession with artists – particularly those who smoke – is wonderfully entertaining
All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – how to make an exhibition of yourself
The former best friend of convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick turns the exciting world of art into a series of gauche boasts in this story of their career as dealers
Grace Jones shakes her bones! Great moments in after-dark photography
The perfect post-sundown shot has long proved elusive. But a new book called Night Fever is celebrating the trailblazers who caught not just what the small hours look like – but how they feel
On my radar: Anjana Vasan’s cultural highlights
The actor on an electrifying production at the Old Vic, her favourite TV show since Succession and one of the best plates of spaghetti she’s ever had
On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights
The novelist on the continuing relevance of Ibsen, the joyful quilt art of Faith Ringgold and where to find British scotch eggs in New York
‘My own inner critic is a bully’: Julia Cameron on creative demons and updating The Artist’s Way
Creativity guru Julia Cameron has long inspired others. Now she’s sharing her own secret weapon