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Other lives: Teacher and activist who studied the mathematical basis of Celtic knot patterns

Art-punk surrealist Linder Sterling springs surprises, classic landscapes get a fresh look and Henri Michaux gets high – all in your weekly dispatch

In 1877 the American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) achieved notoriety when he exhibited his recent views of the river Thames at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. He gave his paintings musical titles: Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (1875) and Nocturne in Blue and Gold –…

New paper suggests abstract expressionist may have been unaware of the images because of his bipolar disorder

Frenchwoman ‘had a bigger role than we’ve ever made visible’, says curator at Durham’s Bowes Museum

From Egyptian mythology to the bear pit of reality TV, this show captures a mere eight years of dazzling work from the restless American who lit up LA before dying at the age of 32

At first glance, it's a happy image -- hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame.

A new show celebrates the pioneering, polemical artist who inspired a generation of Black British creatives – and whose works are as relevant today as they’ve ever been

For decades, the Trinidadian artist has used the folkloric imagery of his homeland to examine notions of identity. As a new exhibition of his work opens, the 91-year-old says he is too busy moving forward to look back