‘These people matter’: why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians
The celebrated US photographer’s new series is a quietly devastating commemoration and a critique of modern American culture
Critics, cancellation and cleanskin wine: the Australian novels satirising the art world
New books from Bri Lee and Liam Pieper reach into the frictions and follies of the art industry. But are they fact or fantasy?
On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights
The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set
John Miles obituary
Creator with his design partner Colin Banks of corporate identities for clients including Royal Mail and British Telecom
Walking in the air: Snowman creator Raymond Briggs’s favourite Sussex paths
An exhibition of the great British illustrator’s life opens this month in Ditchling village, in the South Downs countryside that inspired him
‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale
Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya
‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before
Okamura, who moved to Ireland to explore JFK’s ancestry and stayed for 16 years to document political upheaval, is celebrated in a new exhibition and book
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch review – from the subway to the gift shop
This new biography describes Haring as a nimble, spontaneous performer and an artist of endearing naivety who was nevertheless corrupted by his popularity
On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights
The English singer-songwriter on an evocative Scottish railway museum, a much-missed painter and a forgotten American female musician
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published
The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings
Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay
Poet who is curating country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion says ‘part of the heart’ of the country was looted and is being held in museums
Radiant by Brad Gooch review – art with heart
The life and untimely death of Keith Haring, whose work burst with vitality and warmth
On my radar: Alison Balsom’s cultural highlights
The classical trumpeter on a complex marital drama, an uncompromising violinist and a garden that feels like stepping back in time
Laurent de Brunhoff obituary
Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books
‘Not a parable about death’: Raymond Briggs’s notes set record straight for The Snowman
Remarks scribbled in a Finnish copy of the much-loved book, to be featured in an exhibition on the author, reveal how the story was misunderstood