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Nicholas Pope obituary
silverguide.site – Other lives: Artist who changed direction in mid-career…
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Midsummer morris dancers and their mysterious goat Caprihorn: Hollie Fernando’s best portrait
silverguide.site – ‘I wanted to celebrate the women who are reinventing morris dancing. They took me to a pub and gave me a pickled egg mashed up in a packet of crisps. I felt like I’d entered a magical world’…
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‘There’s a kind of magic to her work’: Maren Hassinger’s one-of-a-kind sculptures
silverguide.site – The artist has her most significant retrospective to date in a new exhibition that encourages attenders to take part…
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Silent carnivals, kabaddi players and home videos: Jarman award shortlist announced
silverguide.site – Only four artist film-makers have been selected by the jury this year, for bringing their ‘deeply grounded lived experience’ to stories of migration, family and disaster…
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Artist defends Churchill video at National Portrait Gallery after being accused of ‘barefaced lie’
silverguide.site – Helen Cammock says her comments blaming wartime leader for Bengal Famine were intended to create ‘dailogue’…
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‘This will be timeless’: what art can we expect from Chicago’s $850m Obama Presidential Center?
silverguide.site – Original works by 30 artists have been commissioned by the Obamas alongside vital pieces of memorabilia for visitors to appreciate…
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Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire
silverguide.site – Neons and videos mix with weaving and beadwork to address subjects as diverse as stolen land, ancestral traditions and queer identity. But the self-made nude steals the show…
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Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath
silverguide.site – Butcher bags, human sacrifice and cavernous black holes … in a world of dry art this stunning exhibition forces us to confront religion and mortality…
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‘I call this dish Frida Kahlo Against the World. It’s hot and horny!’ My thrilling week of Fridamania in Mexico City
silverguide.site – The bar she drank at, the bed she recuperated in, the canals she daytripped to, the studio she stormed out of, the easel she painted her final masterpiece at … ahead of a major Tate show, our writer finds Kahlo’s spirit alive in her home town…
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‘It’s about the power of music and art’: Glyndebourne stages its first ever L’Orfeo
silverguide.site – We go behind the scenes at rehearsals for William Kentridge’s new staging of Monteverdi’s 1607 opera l’Orfeo…
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Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book
silverguide.site – Exclusive: The work will feature some of the photographer’s most powerful images from his 70-year career…
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‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening
silverguide.site – When the artist came home from LA, it seemed like a retirement. But it heralded an astonishing new chapter. Our critic remembers their thrilling dinners together – and the dazzling new works that arrived in his inbox every morning…
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David Kemp obituary
silverguide.site – Artist who built up an imaginative and playful picture of the world using the detritus of defunct industrial plants…
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‘Suggestive toothpaste tubes shooting into mouths’: David Hockney’s winking celebration of queer life
silverguide.site – He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households…
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‘Hyper-stylised, ultra-cool visions’: 10 ways David Hockney changed art
silverguide.site – He pushed landscape painting into the stratosphere, demolished one-point perspective, invented the Los Angeles look, embraced iPads, created dazzling stage sets for theatre and opera ……
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‘He outlived four of his doctors’: David Hockney loved smoking, he really really loved smoking
silverguide.site – His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian about it all?…
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Rachel Nicholson obituary
silverguide.site – Other lives: Artist whose still lifes often depicted the same vessels that her father Ben Nicholson had used as motifs…
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David Hockney obituary
silverguide.site – Ceaselessly inventive painter whose best known works were inspired by the light and colour he encountered in 1960s California…
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Share your tributes and memories of David Hockney
silverguide.site – We would like to hear your tributes and memories of celebrated artist David Hockney – whether you met him, or appreciated his work…
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David Hockney, revolutionary British artist famed for his pools and portraits, dies aged 88
silverguide.site – The Bradford-born painter made his name with sunkissed visions of California and never stopped breaking barriers, going on to become one of contemporary art’s most important figures…
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