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From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

silverguide.site – Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t see…
From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

silverguide.site – The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors…
Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

Photoespaña 2025: colonial legacies, transitional landscapes and chance encounters

silverguide.site – A summer of photography gets under way in the capital, featuring more than 80 contemporary and historical exhibitions…
Photoespaña 2025: colonial legacies, transitional landscapes and chance encounters

Research confirms that Samson and Delilah is a Rubens | Letter

silverguide.site – Letter: The National Gallery has published detailed research into Samson and Delilah, writes Gabriele Finaldi…
Research confirms that Samson and Delilah is a Rubens | Letter

Nick Hedges obituary

silverguide.site – Photographer who took harrowing images of the conditions in which poor British people lived in the 1960s and 70s…
Nick Hedges obituary

Yolngu power: how a small Indigenous community in the Top End came to dominate Australian art

silverguide.site – A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates the many artists of Yirrkala, across almost 300 works spanning bark paintings to neon lights…
Yolngu power: how a small Indigenous community in the Top End came to dominate Australian art

‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

silverguide.site – He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally here…
‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards

silverguide.site – ‘Transformative’ project wins the 2025 architecture medallion as town centres, industrial restorations and residential homes collect other awards of note…
‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards

‘If there’s a rule, he tries to break it’: the explosively colourful works of Sam Gilliam

silverguide.site – A new exhibition explores the late artist’s unexpected sojourn in Ireland, where practical constrictions and the wild scenery inspired a burst of fierce creativity…
‘If there’s a rule, he tries to break it’: the explosively colourful works of Sam Gilliam

From Jenny Saville’s gobsmacking show to a pomo celebration of Richard Rogers – the week in art

silverguide.site – Saville paints beauty and terror, Watteau returns, a £2.5m Rubens gets an unfair drubbing and erotic art reveals itself…
From Jenny Saville’s gobsmacking show to a pomo celebration of Richard Rogers – the week in art

Brian Shuel obituary

silverguide.site – Photographer who chronicled the British folk music scene and its seasonal customs from the 1960s onwards…
Brian Shuel obituary

Abstract Erotic review – artworks as beguiling as they are compelling

silverguide.site – With works by Alice Adams, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois, this exhibition revisits a 1966 show of pieces delving into the psychosexual and the human body…
Abstract Erotic review – artworks as beguiling as they are compelling

Rodin’s rowdy rival: Medardo Rosso, the anarchist who brought sculpture into the modern era

silverguide.site – A new retrospective shines a light on the turn-of-the-century Italian artist, one of the art world’s most obscure yet revered figures, whose legacy was eclipsed by his contemporaries…
Rodin’s rowdy rival: Medardo Rosso, the anarchist who brought sculpture into the modern era

Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self-portrait

silverguide.site – The South African artist has exhibited everywhere, bagging awards in art and theatre, while his work sells for millions. So why did he find becoming an artist so unnatural? Ahead of a major British show, he reveals all…
Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self-portrait

Portraits so powerful they override reality – Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting review

silverguide.site – Saville’s colossal canvases are filled with bloodied mouths, epically thrusting nipples and meaty legs – and her tender Degas-like drawings are truly lovely…
Portraits so powerful they override reality – Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting review

‘The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down’: Kirsha Kaechele takes Ladies Lounge to the Gold Coast

silverguide.site – With butlers wearing ‘probably not much’ – but no fake Picassos – the Mona performance art installation that won a court challenge is heading north to Bleach* festival…
‘The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down’: Kirsha Kaechele takes Ladies Lounge to the Gold Coast

‘At one point, I stepped on a cow’s head’: Gulshan Khan on her best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘This is the largest landfill site in Johannesburg. African sacred ibis hover vulture-like over those who eke out a living from the waste’…
‘At one point, I stepped on a cow’s head’: Gulshan Khan on her best photograph

John Parker obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Architect who had a successful planning career within London government…
John Parker obituary

That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

silverguide.site – How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artist…
That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

‘Artists struggled to survive’: the devastating impact of blacklisting Americans

silverguide.site – A new exhibition looks back at the ‘anti-communist’ witch-hunt that affected many Americans, in particular the Hollywood Ten…
‘Artists struggled to survive’: the devastating impact of blacklisting Americans
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