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Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Tate director, Maria Balshaw, responds to reports of a decline in visitor numbers. Catherine Bliss is unimpressed by recent offerings at the galleries…
Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions | Letters

Deller’s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza – the week in art

silverguide.site – Linder headlines the UK’s largest festival of visual art, Jeremy Deller delves into Welsh history and graffiti queen Lady Pink scares Keith Haring …
Deller’s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza – the week in art

‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?

silverguide.site – The palatial edifice, believed to have stood where God created Adam, has fired imaginations for two millennia. Now artist Pablo Bronstein has created wild mashups, complete with blue-bearded gargoyles, suggesting how it looked…
‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?

Guardian Australia’s Carly Earl wins top award in 2025 Australian Life photography competition

silverguide.site – Earl’s portrait of young drovers in central Queensland praised by judges for ‘beautiful insight into reality of life in rural Australia’…
Guardian Australia’s Carly Earl wins top award in 2025 Australian Life photography competition

Archibald prize 2025: finger-painted portrait of musician William Barton wins people’s choice award

silverguide.site – Loribelle Spirovski’s painting of didgeridoo/yidaki player wins the $5,000 prize decided by the public, with more than 40,000 votes cast…
Archibald prize 2025: finger-painted portrait of musician William Barton wins people’s choice award

Casa Susanna: inside a secret and empowering cross-dressing community in the 1960s

silverguide.site – A treasure trove of flea market photos spotted in 2004 show how some found liberation in the Catskillls at a tough time…
Casa Susanna: inside a secret and empowering cross-dressing community in the 1960s

‘A train nearly took my head off’: how Lady Pink shook up the macho men of New York’s graffiti scene

silverguide.site – Risking arrest, and even decapitation, she ‘bombed’ yards, tunnels and trains in the dead of night. As she brings the spirit of the subway to the UK, the grande dame of graf remembers scaring Keith Haring – and killing a snake…
‘A train nearly took my head off’: how Lady Pink shook up the macho men of New York’s graffiti scene

An immaculately dressed equestrian under a pink sky: John Boaz’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘Fabian grew up the inner-city where it was hard for him to pursue his love of horses. He’s set himself the goal of becoming a five-time Olympic gold medallist’…
An immaculately dressed equestrian under a pink sky: John Boaz’s best photograph

Matthew Barney: ‘I’m not interested in participating in consensus culture’

silverguide.site – The multidisiplinary American artist has put together an ambitious new live performance, the latest stage in a provocative and unusual career…
Matthew Barney: ‘I’m not interested in participating in consensus culture’

‘A succession of bad paintings’: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – review

silverguide.site – This Is What You Get explores the intense creative partnership behind countless album sleeves from OK Computer to In Rainbows. But is it good art? Absolutely not…
‘A succession of bad paintings’: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – review

Stanford Fraser Steele obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Artist whose work encompassed drawing, sculpture, video, site-specific installations and woodworking…
Stanford Fraser Steele obituary

Tate director blames Brexit and Covid for slump in visitors

silverguide.site – Maria Balshaw says upheaval has kept young Europeans away from London sites, contributing to a 27% attendance drop since 2019…
Tate director blames Brexit and Covid for slump in visitors

A Sidney Nolan above the sofa? Inside Artbank, the collection that lets you rent a masterpiece

silverguide.site – This public collection supports living artists while bringing their work into the homes and workplaces of Australians…
A Sidney Nolan above the sofa? Inside Artbank, the collection that lets you rent a masterpiece

Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 at house clearance sale valued at £20-30,000

silverguide.site – Unusual illustration, to be sold by Cheffins, was part of surrealist artist’s abandoned Arabian Nights project…
Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 at house clearance sale valued at £20-30,000

Rare original proof of David Bailey’s 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Near-mint condition preprint copy features 36 portraits of stars including John Lennon and Mick Jagger…
Rare original proof of David Bailey’s 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered

Hannah Wurzburger obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Childhood refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to teach art and exhibited her work as a painter and weaver…
Hannah Wurzburger obituary

Pastoral play, AI portraits and a radical utopia for kids – the week in art

silverguide.site – A countryside conceptualist takes root in Edinburgh, digital artists explore beauty in the age of AI and Monster Chetwynd takes on this summer’s Tate Play installation…
Pastoral play, AI portraits and a radical utopia for kids – the week in art

Artist Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship

silverguide.site – Portraitist withdrew her National Portrait Gallery show over reports that a transgender Statue of Liberty painting could offend Trump…
Artist Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship

Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing

silverguide.site – Using barbed wire, graveyard pebbles and prickly thorns, this retrospective plunges viewers into the raw sadness and beauty of rural life…
Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing

The nefarious message behind the DHS ‘manifest destiny’ painting: ‘four pillars of propaganda’

silverguide.site – Amid sweeping immigration raids, the Department of Homeland Security posted art captioned: ‘Protect the Homeland.’ Experts say it perpetuates an American fantasy…
The nefarious message behind the DHS ‘manifest destiny’ painting: ‘four pillars of propaganda’
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