British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize

Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller

Made in Fire Island: How Artists Were at the Heart of the LGBTQ+ Mecca

A new book shows that the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar – as well as a new generation of artists – would not be the same without the New York island.

The Monthly Mailbag With Noah Hickey

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'African people are surreal': songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based musician is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation

The Bill Maher Effect

For the past year, Donald Trump has made the Kennedy Center all about him. Last night, the comedian revealed the limits of that approach.

Brandon Uranowitz on reviving "Ragtime"

Tony Award-winner Brandon Uranowitz sits down with "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss his journey to landing his latest role in "Ragtime" at Lincoln Center.

Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94

A winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, Kluge was a committed pacifist and one of the last living torchbearers of the Frankfurt school of neo-Marxist cultural criticism

The Two Roberts by Damian Barr audiobook review

This fictionalised account of the relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun vividly depicts their romance and rise to fame – and the fall from grace that followed

Shoplifting, sex shows and sheepdog-breeding: great artists and the side-hustles they did to get by

John Cage appeared on an Italian quizshow. Jean Genet stole rare books. Emily Carr reared bobtails. And Kathy Acker did X-rated acts with her boyfriend … we explore the unlikely sidelines of struggling artists

‘What a fascinating challenge for an artist’: how Monet captured Venice in his twilight years

de Young Museum, San Francisco New exhibition brings together the artist’s many Venetian paintings, a perfect match of artist and location that almost didn’t happen

Flock and awe: inside the big changes at Henry Moore’s glorious sheep-filled Hoglands home

The great sculptor worked as a war artist in the 1940s, sketching people sheltering from bombings. Now his powerful underground drawings are opening the vast, renovated sheep barn gallery at his Arcadian home

Sondheim’s Confessions

A recently published book casts doubt on the composer’s insistence that his enduring musicals were never autobiographical.