The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago

As he retires, Mick Egan looks back at 30 years working with addicts in art and drama

Gig of the week: producer Tony Visconti and drummer Woody Woodmansey are guests

Old favourites: Rob Doyle’s best-loved books

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

The songwriter on the end of the group, his solo work and Cork’s ‘human architecture’

Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery

Obituary: Becker made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies

Exhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in art

Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Five nominees for Irish Times theatre awards recall a performance that inspired them and informed their own approaches

The singer showed to be outside was where it was at and provoked and inspired by example. He showed us how we had to “own it” to set ourselves free

‘A punk before punk was a twinkle in its eye-linered eye,’ says poet Paul Muldoon. How do other fans and friends sum him up?