Five Artists in the News: Gabriel Orozco's Homecoming, Remembering Melvin ‘Milky’ Way and Francis Picabia’s Friends, Lovers and Hollywood Stars

Gabriel Orozco makes his Mexico City return with a solo show at kurimanzutto in time for the city’s art week. His first solo show with the gallery in seven years features recent works linked to all the places Orozco lives

Melvin “Milky” Way, a self-taught artist who overcame the challenges of mental illness, has died aged 70. He became an artist in the 1980s when living in a shelter that provided art workshops for residents, writes Art Review.

Ding Shilun who has the first solo show in London’s Bernheim Gallery, creates works that allude to Japanese manga, Western pop culture, and Chinese traditions, with a dollop of fashion and camp, writes W Magazine in a profile of the 20-something Chinese-born artist.

Francis Picabia’s personal portraits of lovers and friends as well as female icons, such as Greta Garbo, go on show at Michael Werner Gallery in London. The exhibition will feature more than 40 works on paper from across the mischievous artist's career.

Hanne Darboven, the late German artist and heiress to a coffee fortune, created works as obsessive as her daily routine, which started at 4am, writes Glasstire, reviewing a major solo show closing soon at the Menil in Houston.

And in other news

When Thelma Golden was a young curator in the 90s, her shows of Black artists were unprecedented, writes Calvin Tomkins, in an in-depth profile of the influential director of the Studio Museum, as its new home takes shape in Harlem, New York.