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‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film

silverguide.site – The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to her…
‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film
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National Gallery rehang review – ‘A momentous retelling of the story of art’

silverguide.site – t is one of the world’s greatest museums and this revamp starts with a thrilling embrace from Leonardo, unfolding to Titian, Van Eyck, Monet and more – all bolstered by cool new architecture and lighting. What a wonderland!…
National Gallery rehang review – ‘A momentous retelling of the story of art’
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‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry cover

silverguide.site – ‘The guitar, the hair, the mystery – I think I captured who the Cure are with this picture. When I showed it to Robert Smith and the band’s manager, they jumped up and down’…
‘I’ve met people with tattoos of it’: Andy Vella on shooting the Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry cover
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Huma Bhabha review – ‘Giacometti is a foil to her flamboyance. She is today’s Picasso’

silverguide.site – The Pakistani-American sculptor’s traumatised patchwork people more than hold their own against the great Swiss artist’s striding, emaciated statues in this thrilling clash…
Huma Bhabha review – ‘Giacometti is a foil to her flamboyance. She is today’s Picasso’
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‘You might find it scary’: artist Huma Bhabha squares up to Giacometti with wellies, skulls and teeth

silverguide.site – The Pakistan-born sculptor was nervous to show her irreverent work – made using plastic bags, pincers and cork – beside the Swiss existential hero’s but tells us ‘they’re enjoying each other’s company’…
‘You might find it scary’: artist Huma Bhabha squares up to Giacometti with wellies, skulls and teeth
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Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’

silverguide.site – The former Take That singer’s show features line drawings filled with therapy speak, greeting-card banter and meaningless affirmations. Can this really be presented as art?…
Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’
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‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons?

silverguide.site – When the Sainsbury Wing opened, it was called ‘vulgar pastiche’. Now, after an £85m revamp, it has become the famous gallery’s main entrance. But have its spiky complexities been tamed? And why all the empty space?…
‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons?
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We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

silverguide.site – From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in…
We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels
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The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

silverguide.site – Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science lab…
The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust
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LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

silverguide.site – Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the family…
LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000
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Existential encounters, a birthday bash and forensic feminism – the week in art

silverguide.site – Jane Austen meets JMW Turner, Huma Bhabha takes on Giacometti and the Secret Lowry’s work is taken seriously at last – all in your weekly dispatch…
Existential encounters, a birthday bash and forensic feminism – the week in art
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‘I was thrilled when they put me in solitary’: Pussy Riot’s Nadya on Putin, joining OnlyFans and turning her prison cell into art

silverguide.site – The artist spent time at a penal colony for her work – and has channelled the trauma into a stark new show. Despite being on Russia’s ‘wanted’ list, she remains hopeful for the future…
‘I was thrilled when they put me in solitary’: Pussy Riot’s Nadya on Putin, joining OnlyFans and turning her prison cell into art
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Ian Hamilton Finlay review – under the classical veneer, this artist was an idiot

silverguide.site – Finlay was a defiantly archaic figure with a fondness for plinths and marble. But this show’s glorification of the guillotine proves he had a shallow, adolescent mind…
Ian Hamilton Finlay review – under the classical veneer, this artist was an idiot
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Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’

silverguide.site – Rapper turned MIT professor is unveiling a project of ‘en plein air rapping’, which is about outdoors-inspired music…
Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’
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Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio

silverguide.site – Exclusive: British artist Winston Branch was distraught at loss of paintings – taken because he could not pay rent…
Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio
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‘You can see affection, love, respect, rivalry’: what happens when artists paint each other?

silverguide.site – Ever since Raphael included Leonardo and Michelangelo in a crowd scene of one of his works, artists have had a fascination with depicting their peers, as a new exhibition reveals…
‘You can see affection, love, respect, rivalry’: what happens when artists paint each other?
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Tate Modern: 25 jaw-dropping and unforgettable moments from the first 25 years

silverguide.site – When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. We look back at spiders, splinters, sexual dependency and sunsets…
Tate Modern: 25 jaw-dropping and unforgettable moments from the first 25 years
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Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize

silverguide.site – Phu, also a 2025 Archibald finalist, was painted by his good friend Abdullah, who has won category judged by the Art Gallery of New South Wales staff each year…
Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize
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The fly-tipped sofa: how an abandoned couch changed a small village – in pictures

silverguide.site – Why did an unloved two-seater become both an art project and a tourist attraction? Photographer Alex Elton-Wall explains all…
The fly-tipped sofa: how an abandoned couch changed a small village – in pictures
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‘I didn’t know they existed’: US exhibition highlights rarely seen Picasso artwork

silverguide.site – In collaboration with the artist’s daughter, an ambitious Gagosian exhibition finds unusual ways to pair better-known pieces with those lesser seen…
‘I didn’t know they existed’: US exhibition highlights rarely seen Picasso artwork
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