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Peter Ahrends obituary

silverguide.site – Architect with Ahrends, Burton and Koralek whose scheme for a National Gallery extension was criticised as a ‘carbuncle’…
Peter Ahrends obituary

Rembrandt painting was altered to erase turban from man’s head, restorers find

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Unknown hand covered up artist’s depiction of diverse crowd during influx of refugees to Leiden in 1620s…
Rembrandt painting was altered to erase turban from man’s head, restorers find

Duane Michals obituary

silverguide.site – Photographer whose posed subjects and double exposures were inspired by surrealism and his Catholic upbringing…
Duane Michals obituary

‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop

silverguide.site – The artist’s likeness has become a symbol of resistance and heroism – but the truth is more complicated. As a major exhibition opens in London, has brand Frida obscured the real Kahlo?…
‘Rude, heavy-drinking and a committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in the gift shop

‘It’s beautiful and sad to be a human being’: Ragnar Kjartansson brings ‘the best artwork of the 21st century’ to Australia

silverguide.site – A nine-screen installation with a cult following is one of many highlights in the Icelandic artist’s first major Australian show, at Melbourne’s NGV…
‘It’s beautiful and sad to be a human being’: Ragnar Kjartansson brings ‘the best artwork of the 21st century’ to Australia

Ron Dutton obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Sculptor who helped revive the art of medal-making in Britain…
Ron Dutton obituary

German war hero Annika at her farm for struggling veterans: Jan Kraus’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘She was in Germany’s biggest battle since the second world war, but the army took years to recognise her PTSD. Annika now runs a farm with pigs and geese where struggling veterans come to stay’…
German war hero Annika at her farm for struggling veterans: Jan Kraus’s best photograph

Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism

silverguide.site – From trippy swirls to blood-soaked slabs, a new book mines gothic and renaissance art for the supernatural significance of the precious rock…
Game of stones: how paintings of marble reveal a world of magical medieval mysticism

Artist accused of winning prize with ‘imitation’ won Australian award with piece ‘influenced’ by Basquiat

silverguide.site – Jane Allan’s winning Darling portrait prize painting has raised eyebrows after her Doyles art award piece was compared to artist Nicholas Harding…
Artist accused of winning prize with ‘imitation’ won Australian award with piece ‘influenced’ by Basquiat

‘A new world has been opened up’: how a London street got filled with art – and brought the neighbours together

silverguide.site – From a mural in a baby’s bedroom to a sound sculpture designed to be played out of a convertible, top contemporary artists rose to the challenge of making work for one lucky community…
‘A new world has been opened up’: how a London street got filled with art – and brought the neighbours together

Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

silverguide.site – Turner winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’…
Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai review – staggering images of the aftermath of shattering violence

silverguide.site – This darkly atmospheric exhibition pairs the revolutionary Hiroshima images of revered photographer Kikuji with Ai’s glittering but deeply melancholy visions of cherry blossom…
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai review – staggering images of the aftermath of shattering violence

Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

silverguide.site – Frida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists?…
Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

From a Shakespeare First Folio to Bowie’s handwriting: inside Mona’s new $100m library of 30,000 books

silverguide.site – After 10 years of planning, four years of construction and a budget that blew out almost 10 times over, Phrontisterion is finally open in Hobart…
From a Shakespeare First Folio to Bowie’s handwriting: inside Mona’s new $100m library of 30,000 books

David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners

silverguide.site – Artist had requested only his partner and great-nephew attend, with memorial services planned in places he lived…
David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners

From the US-Mexico border to protests in Poland: highlights of PhotoEspaña 2026

silverguide.site – Spain’s leading festival of photography showcases the work of more than 300 visual artists in nearly 100 exhibitions across the country…
From the US-Mexico border to protests in Poland: highlights of PhotoEspaña 2026

David Hockney remembered | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Harriet Gibson recalls an eye-opening encounter with the artist, while Andrew Keeley talks about the influence of California on his work, and Christine Hayes recalls his ‘letter’ to the Guardian about smoking…
David Hockney remembered | Letters

Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

silverguide.site – Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux Tapestry…
Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

St Kilda pier wins peak Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply civic’ design

silverguide.site – State government project among range of works celebrated for community-centred design that goes beyond utility…
St Kilda pier wins peak Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply civic’ design

Fabulous Frida, classic Constable and a Cornish welcome for Kasuba – the week in art

silverguide.site – Tate Modern celebrates everything Kahlo, the British Museum marks John Constable’s 250th birthday, while Claydon prepares for an invasion…
Fabulous Frida, classic Constable and a Cornish welcome for Kasuba – the week in art
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