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‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town

silverguide.site – It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?…
‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town
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Mud, masks and heads on spikes: Ali Cherri – How I Am Monument review

silverguide.site – This richly fascinating show incorporates ancient artefacts into its primeval sculptures, asking pointed questions about how value is assigned to artworks…
Mud, masks and heads on spikes: Ali Cherri – How I Am Monument review
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How the humble teapot morphed from kitchen staple to designer icon

silverguide.site – Sales of tea sets soar and artists are captivated by the symbolic and creative potential of the simple teatime essential…
How the humble teapot morphed from kitchen staple to designer icon
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The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

silverguide.site – British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossip…
The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas
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The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark

silverguide.site – The German photographer captures a moment of tranquility one Scandinavian summer…
The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark
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Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

silverguide.site – The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since…
Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on
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Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art

silverguide.site – Chicken chain has been buying up art since 2004, which it displays on walls of its restaurants…
Peri-peri patron: how Nando’s amassed a huge collection of South African art
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‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors

silverguide.site – Ever since the artist’s repellent crimes were brought to light, the world has grappled with how to treat his work. Now a new exhibition at Ditchling, where he lived, is giving survivors a say…
‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors
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Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world

silverguide.site – The artist’s largest solo show since winning the Turner prize is a mind-bending and mesmerising visual adventure that often defies comprehension…
Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world
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Gormley’s early mettle, AI paint pals and sky-high snogs – the week in art

silverguide.site – The sculptor’s macabre early works get an airing, robots remix David Salle’s postmodern paintings and Rodin’s The Kiss heads under the hammer – all in your weekly dispatch…
Gormley’s early mettle, AI paint pals and sky-high snogs – the week in art
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‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books

silverguide.site – New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids books…
‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books
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Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction

silverguide.site – Forty of the late pop artist’s distinctive works will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York next month…
Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise £26m at auction
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‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

silverguide.site – The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals…
‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists
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Embattled Creative Australia boss served angry letters from staff and 600 literary figures amid Sabsabi fallout

silverguide.site – Letters from staff expressed ‘complete lack of confidence in your ability to lead this organisation effectively’ and fears over participating in external inquiry…
Embattled Creative Australia boss served angry letters from staff and 600 literary figures amid Sabsabi fallout
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My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

silverguide.site – ‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this life together’…
My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph
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‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

silverguide.site – Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume … American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?…
‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work
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Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood

silverguide.site – Pope Francis recognises the ‘heroic virtues’ of the creator of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família basilica in first step of process…
Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood
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‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’

silverguide.site – As the US president hangs a fist-pumping portrait of himself in the White House and seeks to purge museums of ‘improper ideology’, our writer finds chilling parallels at a new show about the Nazis’ ridiculing of modern art…
‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’
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Yayoi Kusama: why this 96-year-old artist’s show is the most popular in Australian history

silverguide.site – By the time the NGV exhibition of works by the Japanese favourite ends, more than half a million people will have seen it…
Yayoi Kusama: why this 96-year-old artist’s show is the most popular in Australian history
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‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art

silverguide.site – Maurizio Cattelan, the great Italian conceptual prankster who framed a banana and plumbed in a precious loo, explains why he’s now blasting holes in sheets of gold…
‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art
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