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Winslow Homer’s high drama arrives in Britain, an anticolonial hero takes his rightful place on the fourth plinth and some new Warholia surfaces – all in your weekly dispatch

Penny Payne is on the panel for Winslow Homer: Studies of Life and His Art at the National Gallery in London on Friday night

The Watch House in Cullercoats recently hosted Sylvia Yount, co-curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was exploring the village's connection to American artist Winslow Homer

His paintings could be strangely clunky yet his vision was staggering – which is why this passionate artist, who captured an America in perpetual peril, still speaks to us today

How to get your art fix in the capital

The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

From the slashed Rokeby Venus to a bullet-scarred Leonardo – artworks famously changed by violence provide inspiration for the Lebanon-born artist

A compelling art exhibit, “The Stars Are Bright,” has opened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe of paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School, the first to teach art to Black students in what was then white minority-ruled Rhodesia

The animations are based on an idiosyncratic selection from famous paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum.

The novelist and comedy writer on her song of the summer, her new favourite sitcom and the brilliance of director Lynette Linton

David Emanuel says Diana would not put up with royal squabble / Bimini Bon Boulash bashes the Kim Kardashian effect / Sienna Miller steals the show at National Gallery