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Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing £42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall

silverguide.site – Hailed as one of the defining achievements of African architecture, the historic, recently refurbished Ethiopian landmark has now won the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism prize…
Could we have 13 million new tiles please? The astonishing £42m rebirth of modernist masterpiece Africa Hall
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National Gallery to make major cuts in effort to stem ballooning deficit

silverguide.site – Move could mean fewer free exhibitions and paid-for shows and more expensive tickets…
National Gallery to make major cuts in effort to stem ballooning deficit
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Yin Xiuzhen and Chiharu Shiota review – so on-the-nose it gives you a nosebleed

silverguide.site – One artist critiques capitalism via sculptures made of tatty T-shirts. The other weaves threads like a hyperactive spider. Neither say much – but they’ll look great on Instagram…
Yin Xiuzhen and Chiharu Shiota review – so on-the-nose it gives you a nosebleed
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Delaine Le Bas review – former Turner nominee delivers witches, warm welcomes – and wallpaper

silverguide.site – The Romany artist takes a mural she made for Glastonbury as a starting point, then builds a dizzying series of rooms exploring connection and exclusion…
Delaine Le Bas review – former Turner nominee delivers witches, warm welcomes – and wallpaper
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Alan Burgess Obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Art teacher and painter whose series of 50 great British trees was exhibited across the UK…
Alan Burgess Obituary
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Labubus to burkinis: V&A unveils updated 21st-century design galleries

silverguide.site – Museum’s revitalised galleries bring together 250 objects to show how design shapes modern life…
Labubus to burkinis: V&A unveils updated 21st-century design galleries
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To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show

silverguide.site – Shrink to toy-size or dive into an ocean in exhibition where studio brings Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up to life…
To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

silverguide.site – She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever…
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
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Spooky shores, folkloric visions and Ireland’s mysterious landscapes reveal a secret – the week in art

silverguide.site – Georges Seurat takes an eerie trip to the seaside, Yinka Shonibare puts empire in its place and Sean Scully reveals his source…
Spooky shores, folkloric visions and Ireland’s mysterious landscapes reveal a secret – the week in art
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A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works

silverguide.site – The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory…
A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works
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Euan Uglow review – No wonder Cherie Blair didn’t model for long, these pictures are exhausting just to look at

silverguide.site – His work was so painstaking and slow to produce that the models – including a certain trainee barrister – often didn’t make it to the end of a portrait. It makes for paintings that seem drained of life…
Euan Uglow review – No wonder Cherie Blair didn’t model for long, these pictures are exhausting just to look at
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‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

silverguide.site – From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois way back to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot…
‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes
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The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

silverguide.site – Courtauld Gallery, LondonThis quietly tremendous exhibition gathers more than half of the pointillist painter’s works, all depicting the Channel coast and sea, full of blizzards of light and a quivering sense of import…
The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review
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A plague doctor dances with a rat at a Covid ball: Lisl Ponger’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘In Florida, people were told to keep the length of a baby alligator apart. So I included a character wearing an alligator mask in my pandemic-themed masked ball’…
A plague doctor dances with a rat at a Covid ball: Lisl Ponger’s best photograph
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‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

silverguide.site – Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31…
‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

silverguide.site – Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? …
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings
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Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

silverguide.site – As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise…
Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake
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Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre

silverguide.site – Decision to grant Grade II status marks turnaround for what was once voted ‘Britain’s ugliest building’…
Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre
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Back gardens in the sky! The riotous, post-apocalyptic buildings of ‘eco-brutalist’ Renée Gailhoustet

silverguide.site – The French architect, who once had her nose broken by Jean-Marie Le Pen, created apartment blocks with cascading terraces that seemed to have surrendered to nature. They are still loved by their residents…
Back gardens in the sky! The riotous, post-apocalyptic buildings of ‘eco-brutalist’ Renée Gailhoustet
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Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour saved for nation

silverguide.site – Created in 1943, abstract wooden carving marked a breakthrough in ‘genius’ British artist’s career…
Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour saved for nation
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