Max Dupain: A Portrait by Helen Ennis review – the man who took Australia’s most famous photo

In this very readable and moving biography, the Sunbaker photographer comes across as someone who spoke against his myth – but also traded on it until the end

Emma Calder obituary

Animator and illustrator whose film Beware of Trains led to a retrospective of her work in Austria in 2023

Joseph Rykwert obituary

Architectural writer who believed that buildings not be considered in isolation but as part of the fabric of a city

‘A vivid distillation of a deeply fractured country’: a history of the United States in nine photographs

As a landmark book, Magnum America, is released, we chart pivotal moments for the ​U​S via key images from the past 90 years​

‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better

Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studies

On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights

The writer and academic on stories and poetry from Gaza, an exhibition of friendship, and the cat rescue website she prefers to dating apps

‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns

The comics artist’s book Black Hole made him a cult hero, revered for his horror-tinged tales of US teens. He talks about the memory that broke chronic writer’s block – and why his books haven’t been filmed

October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches

Sculptors take part in the 10gram Challenge, arty Instagram and creative director Ramdane Touhami’s textiles

Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show

Paradise exhibition focuses on public works for factory walls, hospitals and nurseries – long before Moominmania took hold

On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights

The film director on the music he works to, educating himself via podcasts, and why the Paris Olympics was a pleasant surprise

Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls

While a photography student at Yale, Modica visited her old school and found the captivating subject she’d been looking for: teens whose big hair, eyeliner and rolled-up skirts still radiate personality decades later

The big picture: Dolorès Marat’s Paris, city of intrigue

The French photographer’s painterly portrait of a woman in a metro station hints at the unknowableness of everyday urban life

John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate

Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21

‘Art and music have always been like friends to me’: painter to the stars Jack Coulter

The Irish artist talks about his synaesthesia and being mutually inspired by musicians such as Elton John and Paul McCartney

‘It was to make bank managers less uptight’: the toy that put Newton’s law on executive desks

The eccentric British design firm behind Ballrace, the bestselling shiny 1970s Newton’s cradle, is celebrated in a new book