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Beth McKillop obituary
silverguide.site – Museum curator and scholar with a special focus on Korean art…
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What would Frida think about today’s kitsch Kahlomania? | Letters
silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about the artist’s legacy and the impact of the Tate Modern’s blockbuster exhibition…
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Tish Murtha and Kuba Ryniewicz review – pit closures and cuddly pets struggle for connection
silverguide.site – Close to Home pairs the two artists’ contrasting visions of the pursuit of happiness in north-east England. There are many good things but they don’t add up…
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Alan Gignoux: Homeland Lost review – a landscape as bereft as its people
silverguide.site – Resonant black and white photographs show Palestinian refugees and the sites today of the homes they were forced to leave during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war…
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Seaside shenanigans, Newcastle grit and dinosaurs of the deep – the week in art
silverguide.site – Rye spies a quirky summer show, Leonora Carrington’s surrealism is knowingly Freudian and ancient reptiles take over the Natural History museum…
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Salvaged steel and a slice of countryside: Caro sculptures on show in Oxfordshire fields
silverguide.site – Visitors can get free peek at works by one of UK’s most significant 20th-century artists and one of his successors…
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‘Riot of colour’: Gillian Ayres show in Devon just the tonic for gloomy times
silverguide.site – Plymouth retrospective of artist, who died in 2018, aims to ‘champion and celebrate the power of the imagination’…
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Terence Gower: Enemies and Rascals review – so was US freedom born bad?
silverguide.site – Drawing a line from the battle of Quebec to Trump v Carney, the Canadian artist’s takedown of rapacious US thuggery is strangely lacking drama…
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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! review – skeleton chandeliers, a real-life temple – and too much silly Lego
silverguide.site – The artist’s latest show is a staggering takedown of colonial history, warfare and the migrant crisis, featuring buttons by the tonne and richly perfumed tea …
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A boy clowning around on a basketball court in a Colombian cocaine corridor: Mads Nissen’s best photograph
silverguide.site – ‘I took this in 2017, when Didiller was nine. A few years ago, I returned to the area and asked about him, but couldn’t find him. Someone told me he had been killed’…
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An Aztec-tinged revamp topped with a crinkle-cut tiara: inside the sparkling £1.3bn Olympia reboot
silverguide.site – It has hosted everything from Miss World to the Chemical Brothers. Now the vast London venue has become a city within a city boasting offices, hotels, a theatre, commanding views – and even a school…
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‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendieta
silverguide.site – Her shocking performances and stunning images made Mendieta the talk of the art world in the 1970s and 80s. Then she fell from a New York apartment block in 1985 – and her husband was charged with murder. As a major exhibition comes to London, her friends discuss her genius and their search for answers…
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Waldmüller: Landscapes review – the rule-breaking radical whose ‘delicate fingers’ drove bourgeois Austria wild
silverguide.site – He painted leaves, grass and even bark with the precision of a chef applying a micro-garnish with tweezers. The result? Looking at his work feels a lot like eating your greens…
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From card game to a tool of divination: the artistic history of tarot
silverguide.site – A new exhibition follows the unlikely route of tarot cards all the way from 15th century Italy to its association with the occult now…
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Never mind the Bayeux! Here’s some other great medieval art – and it’s free
silverguide.site – Want to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our cathedrals…
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‘We were broke, but fascinated by freedom’: exhibition showcases East German artist Gabriele Stötzer
silverguide.site – Show at Martin Gropius Bau gallery in Berlin is biggest ever celebration of an East German female artist in a state museum…
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Don Egginton obituary
silverguide.site – Other lives: Economist and head of department at Bristol University with a parallel occupation as an accomplished artist…
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‘The beach was and still is an Aboriginal space’: artist Billy Bain on reclaiming the sand and waves
silverguide.site – For his upcoming solo exhibition, the Dharug artist has made 11 colourful clay sculptures that represent a counter-image to the bronzed Aussie beachgoer…
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Peter Ahrends obituary
silverguide.site – Architect with Ahrends, Burton and Koralek whose scheme for a National Gallery extension was criticised as a ‘carbuncle’…
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Rembrandt painting was altered to erase turban from man’s head, restorers find
silverguide.site – Exclusive: Unknown hand covered up artist’s depiction of diverse crowd during influx of refugees to Leiden in 1620s…
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