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‘I like my footballers wispy – or monumental!’ Rebel artist Rose Wylie on still painting till 3am at 91

silverguide.site – Underestimated for too long, Wylie is now wanted by galleries worldwide and her giant, wild, witty paintings – of Hollywood stars, soccer greats, black swans and flying bombs – fetch huge sums. We visit her relaxed studio in Kent…
‘I like my footballers wispy – or monumental!’ Rebel artist Rose Wylie on still painting till 3am at 91
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Neither saint nor sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene is electrifyingly alive

silverguide.site – Soon to go on display at the National Gallery of Art in DC, it took a female artist to portray the biblical figure not as shamed and repentant but in the throes of ecstatic rapture…
Neither saint nor sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene is electrifyingly alive
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‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries

silverguide.site – New Art UK chair Ben Terrett appointed as charity marks 10 years of building online database…
‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries
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‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England

silverguide.site – The Working Arts Club is working to counter the stark class disparity within the UK creative sector…
‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England
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‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is the arrest photo the ultimate royal portrait?

silverguide.site – Captured in the back seat of a Range Rover, this image of Mountbatten-Windsor is full of shock, pain and horror, bringing to mind dark works by Munch, Goya and Courbet. Will this be how history remembers the royals?…
‘Andrew’s aghast eyes echo The Scream’: is the arrest photo the ultimate royal portrait?
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Fabric of memory: the artists turning secondhand clothes into monumental art

silverguide.site – Yin Xiuzhen builds cities from donated clothing while Chiharu Shiota weaves found objects into vast webs of thread. Now the two are exhibiting their massive, moving installations in two parallel exhibitions…
Fabric of memory: the artists turning secondhand clothes into monumental art
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Glory for Gaudí, poems for Doig and a giant show for Beatriz González – the week in art

silverguide.site – Catalonia’s most celebrated son kicks off his centenary in style, Derek Walcott energises his friend Doig and the Colombian great gets her first UK retrospective…
Glory for Gaudí, poems for Doig and a giant show for Beatriz González – the week in art
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LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings…
LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal
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Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints

silverguide.site – Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed bandits…
Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints
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‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs

silverguide.site – After a decade of austerity closed more than 1,000 centres, the government has promised £500m to renew youth services. We tour a glossy new venue in Preston – and a girls-only one in London…
‘A safe space to come and just be’: the radical, utopian return of Britain’s youth clubs
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‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

silverguide.site – A rare gilded and complete Book of the Dead, used by ancient Egyptians to help them to the afterlife, is now on display in Brooklyn…
‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
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‘Can I come over and take your picture?’: a decades-long archive captures cross-cultural womanhood

silverguide.site – Through more than 300 photos, the New York City artist Clémence Polès Farhang captures the immigrant story and unconventional womanhood…
‘Can I come over and take your picture?’: a decades-long archive captures cross-cultural womanhood
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Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year

silverguide.site – Xalet del Catllaràs contains elements of architect’s naturalistic style, expressed in works such as Park Güell and Sagrada Família…
Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year
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A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘The Peugeot 103 is iconic in Morocco: a symbol of social mobility. But my rider, a living sculpture, is so overstimulated he can’t choose which way to go – and ends up going nowhere’…
A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou’s best photograph
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‘He couldn’t be happier’: celebrating William Eggleston’s incredible photography

silverguide.site – A new exhibition brings together new dye-transfer prints of the classically American photographer’s work…
‘He couldn’t be happier’: celebrating William Eggleston’s incredible photography
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Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

silverguide.site – From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like?…
Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper
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Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

silverguide.site – The East German-born artist, who has died aged 41, came of age in a deeply dysfunctional landscape, using furniture to reveal schisms masked by unification…
Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany
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Michael Duncan obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Architect who helped shape the design of the Scottish parliament building…
Michael Duncan obituary
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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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