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She may be the most painted woman in history, almost always portrayed as subservient, pure, chaste - and never actually giving birth. Thank goodness female artists like Paula Rego and Esther Strauss provided a reality check ...

The best of this week's wildlife photographs from around the world ...

In a year marked by political instability, Americans faced challenges like gun violence, threats to bodily autonomy and the climate crisis with creativity, tenacity and resolve ...

The Guardian's picture editors select photographs from around the world ...

Interned after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese photographer eventually developed his singular style on the streets of Chicago - before taking it back to his native country ...

Letters: Tobias Jespersen says be careful before describing the city as sustainable and a role model. Morten Iversen laments its soulless expansion ...

'Grace has just jumped off the swing and her hair is all over the place but she doesn't care. It's a moment that encapsulates everything freeing about living on the island'

A new gallery looks back at some of the strike action covered by the late Observer photographer Jane Bown over the last 60 years ...

Photographer Tony Doekal spent six years speaking to those on society's margins. She heard tales of robbery, rejection and survival ...

Our critics' highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio's final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art ...