Jonathan Jones on artStreet artGraffiti is ugly, stupid and threatening – there's more creativity in crochetDavid Lynch, that champion of the arts, says graffiti is ruining the world. And he’s right – this hypermasculine display is destroying our environment It’s a familiar scenario. Older person gets angry with modern world and rages against the visual white noise of graffiti that is, well, everywhere these days. Only this time the angry old man is film director David Lynch, whose surrealist pedigree and bizarre sense of style make his condemnation of graffiti difficult to dismiss as mere grey-haired grumpiness.

Monty Don on gardeningLife and styleHow to make passion flower to blossomQ My wife has a passion flower that doesn't flower. It is three-and-a-half years old. Why would this be, and is there anything that she can do about it? Paul Redfern, Birmingham A Passion flowers are the flowers of the climbing woody shrub Passiflora caerulea. You don't say where or how it is growing, but they are not wholly hardy and are likely to suffer - if not die - in anything but a very protected spot in a normal winter.

The ObserverMental health This article is more than 2 years oldI’ve seen everything as a counsellor. But Couples Therapy still has me grippedThis article is more than 2 years oldMost people want their sessions to remain private, but a new TV show that lifts the lid on the process is compelling – and rewarding Two weeks ago, as 2021 turned into 2022, my inbox was suddenly full of couples requesting counselling.

FictionReviewThis experimental debut novel about blood ties and bodily integrity brings a restlessly inventive approach to a woman’s terminal cancer From an early age, Lia is made to feel suspicious of her body. She grows up in a vicarage, where the flesh that matters belongs to Christ. When she is 12, her parents, Anne and Peter, take in an adolescent boy, Matthew. Anne and Peter grow to love Matthew. So does Lia – but in a different way.

TelevisionObituaryPeter Vaughan obituaryVeteran stage and screen actor who played Harry Grout in Porridge and Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones Peter Vaughan, who has died aged 93, was one of the most distinctive and menacing of character actors on stage and screen in a career spanning seven decades and ranging from West End comedy to Dickens and Our Friends in the North on television, to movies with Frank Sinatra and Tallulah Bankhead, and encompassing a string of unpleasant authority figures.