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Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory

silverguide.site – The peerless chronicler of everyday absurdity did not live to see this show, but it is a dazzling final chapter, showing his irresistible good humour growing darker…
Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory
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My toddler threw a toy pig at an artwork – and inspired this guide for small kids in galleries

silverguide.site – For the first instalment of Young at art – a new series on the delights and dangers of introducing small children to art – Chloë Ashby weighs up whether it’s worth the effort…
My toddler threw a toy pig at an artwork – and inspired this guide for small kids in galleries
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Hamnet-era mourning jewel from celebrated painting rediscovered after 400 years

silverguide.site – Exclusive: pedant appears in 1635 painting Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of His Wife that hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery…
Hamnet-era mourning jewel from celebrated painting rediscovered after 400 years
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Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East

silverguide.site – Museum says The Music is Black is part of a push to reposition scene as central to UK’s cultural history…
Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East
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Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils!

silverguide.site – The Irish artist scrambles your brain by cleverly combining calming pastel pinks with austere military health units and suffocating smells…
Racheal Crowther review – unnerving installation attacks your mind … and your nostrils!
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Petal passion, super-surreal Polaroids and Billy Childish’s California – the week in art

silverguide.site – Expertly curated flower paintings, the garage-rock star’s hazy expressionism and a masterpiece from a Morrisons receipt – all in your weekly dispatch…
Petal passion, super-surreal Polaroids and Billy Childish’s California – the week in art
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V&A faces calls to become living wage employer on eve of Stratford opening

silverguide.site – Campaigners organise open letter to director demanding ‘fair day’s wage’ for all workers at V&A museums…
V&A faces calls to become living wage employer on eve of Stratford opening
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Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions?

silverguide.site – Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, LACMA’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. What has happened to Peter Zumthor’s light touch?…
Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions?
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Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time

silverguide.site – E H Shepard drawings go on display for book’s centenary, showing how he brought AA Milne’s character to life…
Pooh in pencil: sketches for original Winnie-the-Pooh book shared for first time
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Chris Mullen obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Teacher of art and design who was an avid collector of books, magazines and printed ephemera…
Chris Mullen obituary
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Douglas Lees obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Architect who designed prisons and new town developments as well as loft conversions and granny flats for his village neighbours…
Douglas Lees obituary
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Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

silverguide.site – Mischievous, moving and troubled tales of female oppression unspool across the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s drawings, which show an intuitive touch her paintings lack…
Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them
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A ruined building, five Ghanaians and an elegant horse: Ron Timehin’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘I went to this tourist resort in Accra wanting to show how the people who live there fish, play – and rest. Africans aren’t often portrayed in this way. And the horse pulls it all together!’…
A ruined building, five Ghanaians and an elegant horse: Ron Timehin’s best photograph
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‘I wanted my work to be shameless’: 93-year-old artist Joan Semmel on her trailblazing nudes

silverguide.site – In the 1970s, the painter shocked the art world with paintings modeled on her own nude body. Now in her 10th decade, she’s celebrated as a feminist pioneer…
‘I wanted my work to be shameless’: 93-year-old artist Joan Semmel on her trailblazing nudes
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V&A East architecture review – from ceramics to codpieces, this is a honey-coloured treasure trove of human ingenuity

silverguide.site – The second addition to Stratford’s new skyline from architects O’Donnell + Tuomey is a triumph, its bold lines and simple interiors a welcoming home for the art, people and creativity it celebrates…
V&A East architecture review – from ceramics to codpieces, this is a honey-coloured treasure trove of human ingenuity
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V&A East collection review – a dazzling wealth of inspiration to fire up the geniuses of the future

silverguide.site – From showstopping fabrics to mind-expanding photos and an opening show celebrating Black British music, the real value of London’s new museum will surely lie in the art it inspires…
V&A East collection review – a dazzling wealth of inspiration to fire up the geniuses of the future
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Boy thrown from Tate Modern takes ‘sad step backwards’, family say

silverguide.site – French child, six at time of 2019 attack, suffers setback in recovery after January operation…
Boy thrown from Tate Modern takes ‘sad step backwards’, family say
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And this one shows the police evicting me: the fabulous fabric visions of Elizabeth Allen

silverguide.site – One of 17 children, she lived in a shack and devoted herself to needlework. Now her dazzling creations – showing everything from giant feet in Africa to the ‘fallen woman’ of Babylon – are being rediscovered…
And this one shows the police evicting me: the fabulous fabric visions of Elizabeth Allen
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After three years, investigations and now a $4.4m lawsuit, Australia’s most controversial art exhibition finally opens

silverguide.site – Ngura Puḻka at the National Gallery of Australia is a landmark exhibition of 30 paintings by Indigenous artists in the APY Arts Centre Collective, which was investigated over claims white workers had interfered with black art…
After three years, investigations and now a $4.4m lawsuit, Australia’s most controversial art exhibition finally opens
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Filthy fossil fuels, a dizzying debut and the ominous side of the moon – the week in art

silverguide.site – Digital wizard John Gerrard on the energy industry, Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s first UK museum exhibition and an foreboding view from Artemis II…
Filthy fossil fuels, a dizzying debut and the ominous side of the moon – the week in art
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