Art Weekly: Stormy American realism, antique AI and nonsense-free Lear – the week in art

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For a limited time, enjoy 30% off an annual digital subscription. Your support protects our vital independence and keeps us free of a paywall. To thank you, we'll unlock unlimited reading in our quality news app and ad-free reading on all your devices. Support us   Stormy American realism, antique AI and nonsense-free Lear – the week in art 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 The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer, 1898. Photograph: The Art Institute of Chicago Jonathan Jones Exhibition of the week Winslow Homer Romanticism and realism fiercely blend in this painter who recorded the rise and fall of hope in the US. • National Gallery, from 10 September until 8 January Also showing Samson Kambalu A statue of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe takes its place in Trafalgar Square, towering over a smaller figure of white missionary John Chorley in this recreation of a 1914 photograph from today's Malawi. • Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London from 14 September Samson Kambalu inspects a model of Antelope, depicting John Chilembwe and John Chorley. Photograph: Tim P Whitby/Getty Images Edward Lear Lyrical globetrotting landscapes by the genius of Victorian nonsense poetry. • Ikon, Birmingham, until 13 November Imagining AI Manuscripts by Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley star in this survey of Artificial Intelligence in science and sci fi. • Bodleian Library Weston Gallery, Oxford, until 26 September Léon Wuidar Enigmatic abstract paintings full of architectural imagery by this veteran Belgian artist. • White Cube Mason's Yard, London, until October Image of the week Jadé Fadojutimi, I Present Your Royal Highness, 2018. Photograph: Jadé Fadojutimi At just 29, Jadé Fadojutimi is the art world's hottest young talent. Her works have already sold for over £1m and I Present Your Royal Highness (above) has been collected by the Tate. Her process is intense, both physically and emotionally – she dances and runs at the canvas, scales ladders, cries, and sometimes breaks off to write in her diary. She works on her own, through the night, with her favourite soundtracks blasting out, and sometimes she can finish a painting in a single night if she feels gripped. "It becomes a force that just takes over," she says. "I always want to call it witchcraft." Read our full interview here. What we learned Photographs of Andy Warhol were nearly thrown away You can snap up Skepta's first painting at auction All the tricks of the trade you need to be an art forger A new photobook pays tribute to the overlooked women of the Black Panther party Will the world ever be ready for a linear city? Bats have helped compose a new album of deep house bangers Carolee Schneemann created art that even Duchamp said was messy Harold Chapman, the photographer who chronicled beat-era Paris, hsd died aged 95 Mitch Epstein's photographs of the US during the Vietnam war captured the country at a fascinating turning point in its history Masterpiece of the week Fishermen Carrying a Drowned Man by Jozef Israëls, 1861 The crushed and hopeless forms of the people bringing home a fisherman drowned in his daily work are darkly framed against greyness in this compassionate scene of life and death by the North Sea. Dutch painter Israëls spent time living in Zandvoort, a fishing village near Haarlem in the Netherlands, before painting it in his Amsterdam studio. The closeness and common pain of the figures makes us feel the sorrow of an entire community. It is as if they have all drowned. The burden of grief won't lift lightly. 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