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Artist Namboodiri brightened Kerala’s art scene with his calm but active presence for over half a century.

How the Centenary of Melbourne Birthday Clock Cake ended up thousands of kilometres away remains a mystery

A long-overdue exhibition of the work of photographer Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975) has opened at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London. Yevonde: Life and Colour is the first major exhibition since the gallery reopened its doors, following a three-year refurbishment.

A show by 13 women and non-binary artists present the body as abject, disgusting and objectified – to alienating effect

London-based artist Suzannah Pettigrew displays her spectral imagery in an exhibition at Dover Street Market, Paris

Doris Salcedo and others weigh their words, Tim Shaw memorialises the Iraq war and Tino Sehgal arranges a big match for different kinds of creativity – all in your weekly dispatch

The live art event is back for its special birthday

“Love him or loathe him, it is impossible to ignore Banksy,” said Mark Brown in The Daily Telegraph. Although he himself has somehow managed to preserve his anonymity, the mysterious graffiti artist’s work has become “as recognisable (and as saleable)” as anything created by Andy Warhol or Keith Haring.

Namboodiri, one of India’s most gifted and loved painters has passed away. He was primarily known, especially in his native Kerala, for his line art, in which he had few peers

The major Mark Rothko exhibition will bring 115 works to Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

Frida Kahlo devotees, this is your show. There are her paintings aplenty, photographs of her by Imogen Cunningham through to Edward Weston, and film imagery of Kahlo and Rivera as the happy couple.