Artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and the subsequent film version, has died aged 56.

Born in Iran, she moved to France where she made her name with the book which told how she struggled under the Iranian dictatorship and eventually became an exile in France and a critic of the religious regime.

In a statement released to journalists, a friend said she "died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life".

Two years ago she unveiled a nearly 30-foot-long tapestry created for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics which took three years to complete.

1 - Canadian artist Steven Shearer has his first solo show in the UK in almost 20 years opening tonight at David Zwirner's London gallery. The show, My Moody Muse, includes his largest ever painting titled The Wizzer which was only completed this year and which stands almost nine feet high.

2 - South African artist Kimathi Mafafo’s solo exhibition, Passion Flower, is inspired by a species of tropical flower her grandmother used in medicine. The show, which opens today at Berlin's Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, includes work created in collaboration with two women whom she trained in embroidery for several years.

3 - Daniel Arsham's show Time Fold, which opens today at Perrotin in London, includes never-before-seen drawings from his archives dating back more than 20 years. They are shown alongside sculptures and paintings including some of his eroded classical figures such as the Grey Selenite Eroded Bust of Zeus in which the features of the mighty Greek god are worn away.

4 - Willie Cole's show, Mind, Body, and Soul, which opens today at Sargent's Daughters in New York includes large-scale prints and his signature found-object sculptures. The works on show include discarded shoes, bottles and musical instruments all repurposed in sculptures.

1 - More than 100 artists from Pio Abad to Raed Yassin are taking the "next steps towards legal action" against the Venice Biennale Foundation after demanding they not be considered for its Visitors’ Lions Awards. They signed an open letter saying they "want no part" of the awards which were created after the jury for the traditional awards resigned in protest at the presence of the Russian and Israeli pavilions.

2 - London's 2026 Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public on Saturday. Designed by Mexican architects Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, it features a wavy wall known as a crinkle-crankle which snakes through the site.

3 - Architect Kulapat Yantrasast, who has worked on projects for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, will be artistic director of next year's Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan. The first edition of the event in 2025 is reported to have drawn 1.8 million visitors.

4 - Icelandic pop star Bjork is opening an immersive exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland to coincide with the 2026 Reykjavik Arts Festival. It comes more than a decade after the critics savaged her show at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which included video, fashion and music from her career.