ArtShe painted Margot Fonteyn, posed for Picasso and may have been a second-world-war spy. Now, 20 years after her death, the little-known British artist has her own exhibition in LondonThe dancer Hazel Merry looked critically at her own left foot, captured half a century ago by an artist she had never even noticed in the shadows of the rehearsal room: "That foot is not quite right, I think. Not entirely happy with that.

‘I have never been a women-in-film darling’ … Jamie Lee Curtis. Photograph: Sebastien Micke/Paris Match/Contour by Getty ImagesAs she plays Laurie Strode for the sixth time in Halloween Kills, she discusses sisterhood, survival – and the parallels between Michael Myers and Donald Trump by Ryan GilbeyJamie Lee Curtis is describing herself to me. “I’m in a black hole wearing an orange suit,” she says. “It’s early morning in Los Angeles and I’m feeling really good.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille celebrates his victory at the French Grand Prix in 1979. Photograph: Daniel Janin/AFP/Getty ImagesJean-Pierre Jabouille celebrates his victory at the French Grand Prix in 1979. Photograph: Daniel Janin/AFP/Getty ImagesFormula OneObituaryJean-Pierre Jabouille obituaryRacing driver who made Formula One history when he won the French Grand Prix in 1979 in a turbocharged car Although Jean-Pierre Jabouille was far from being the best-known member of an outstanding generation of French racing drivers, he could claim a unique distinction.

Ric Blum, a key witness in the disappearance of Marion Barter, leaving the Lismore inquest. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The GuardianRic Blum, a key witness in the disappearance of Marion Barter, leaving the Lismore inquest. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The GuardianNew South Wales This article is more than 7 months oldMarion Barter disappearance: Ric Blum rejects testimony of four other witnesses This article is more than 7 months oldKey witness asserts women’s statements are ‘all lies’ and says he believes Barter is still alive

From south London to Tennessee, from Senegal to Newport, Observer Music Monthly's critics make their pick of the year 1 The streets A Grand Don't Come For Free (Locked On/ 679)In one single moment his whole life turned round... It's all too easy now to forget how dismissive many people were of the Streets' debut in 2002. Grime had yet to be coined as a genre and this embryonic sound, this Original Pirate Material, struggled to connect with the mainstream, some even dismissing it as a joke.

Portrait of the weekCultureSelf-Portrait With a Bandaged Ear, Van Gogh (1889)· View the work online Artist: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), the definitive modern artist in that his life and work broke with traditional social bonds. In every brushstroke he seemed to express an isolated, alienated vision - the vision of, in the words of Antonin Artaud, the man suicided by society. Subject: Van Gogh, after he cut off his own earlobe following a violent argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, whom he idolised and who came to stay with him in Arles in Provence in October 1888.

101 strangest records on SpotifyMusicThe 101 strangest records on Spotify: DR Hooker – The TruthIt's a miracle any copies of this privately pressed album survived – but be thankful it did, for here is an individual visionSome people worry about when we'll run out of oil. A rather smaller proportion of us worry about when we'll run out of discoverable, deep-end thrills like this. There is just no way in the world items like Donald Hooker's 40-year-old privately pressed LP should even exist as a thing – it more than likely only ran to about 99 copies in its original format, so how the hell did even one of those survive to create these new digital and analogue versions decades later?

FashionThe ‘retro-futuristic’ mid-2000s look harks back to a time of technological optimism What do tropical fish, bubbles, green fields and dewdrops have in common? They are all visual markers of a mid-2000s aesthetic that is taking the TikTok generation by storm, amid a wave of nostalgia for a time when technology was seen as a path to a brighter future. Dubbed Frutiger Aero by design gurus, the trend is named after the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger whose lettering featured widely in early colour computers, and Windows Aero, a visual style embraced by Microsoft’s 2006 Vista software, with its screensavers depicting electric-green grass and impossibly blue skies.

OperaObituaryHildegard BehrensOperatic soprano acclaimed for her interpretations of Wagner and StraussThe soprano Hildegard Behrens, who has died of a ruptured aortic aneurism aged 72, was an individual, unforgettable Wagner singer, a great actor and, for many, the definitive interpreter of Richard Strauss's Salome and Elektra. Born in Varel, not far from Hamburg in Germany, Behrens was the youngest child in a large family persuaded, like all her siblings, to take up an instrument by their music-loving doctor father (in her case the violin in addition to the piano).

Nick Cave … gothic, yes, but much more than that. Photograph: Pfarrhofer Herbery/EPA Photograph: PFARRHOFER HERBERT/EPANick Cave … gothic, yes, but much more than that. Photograph: Pfarrhofer Herbery/EPA Photograph: PFARRHOFER HERBERT/EPA10 of the bestNick CaveNick Cave and the Bad Seeds: 10 of the bestBibles, death and obsession … it could only be Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, really, couldn’t it? Here are 10 songs to treasure 1. Saint HuckThe Birthday Party were an unholy force of evil noise, but by 1983 Nick Cave had grown tired of their mess and muck.