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A bride wades through a flood to get married: Aaron Favila’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘The couple had been told the church was likely to be under water on their wedding day. But they were from an area of the Philippines prone to flooding – and stuck to their plan’…
A bride wades through a flood to get married: Aaron Favila’s best photograph
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Peter Aldington obituary

silverguide.site – Architect of modernist houses who combined an attention to materials with a sensitivity to space indoors and out…
Peter Aldington obituary
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‘These are artifacts from history’: exhibition celebrates objects of sporting victory

silverguide.site – At the American Museum of Natural History, an expansive range of medals, trophies and other keepsakes, showcase nearly 150 years of US sports history…
‘These are artifacts from history’: exhibition celebrates objects of sporting victory
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Behold! Nina Simone’s chewing gum! Inside the show celebrating extreme pop fandom

silverguide.site – Leaves from Dolly Parton’s front garden, a Yellow Submarine cookie jar full of ashes, a branch from the tree Marc Bolan’s car hit … our writer explores Holy Pop, the exhibition where superfans are sacred…
Behold! Nina Simone’s chewing gum! Inside the show celebrating extreme pop fandom
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Winston Churchill: The Painter review – We will daub them on the beaches

silverguide.site – Intended to relieve the stresses of office, especially during wartime, Churchill’s amateurish works have an overpowering joy – but his donkeys would make Lowry blush…
Winston Churchill: The Painter review – We will daub them on the beaches
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‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art

silverguide.site – Not a Souvenir at the MCA highlights the commodification and misrepresentation of First Nations people – and invites the public to reckon with their complicity…
‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art
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‘This is mine, I own it’: how Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo inspired me to make meaning out of pain

silverguide.site – Emin’s unsparing examination of her cancer and Kahlo’s intensely imagined response to traumatic injury moved our writer to take self-portraits while recovering from a serious operation…
‘This is mine, I own it’: how Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo inspired me to make meaning out of pain
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James McNeill Whistler review – a luscious, seductive blockbuster for the painter who scandalised Britain

silverguide.site – This big, insightful show celebrates the pioneering American who was torn between painting beauty for beauty’s sake – and cutting through the glitz…
James McNeill Whistler review – a luscious, seductive blockbuster for the painter who scandalised Britain
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‘Depraved in all the right ways’: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off

silverguide.site – He made the notorious film Ecstatic Stigmatic. He designed punk jewellery worthy of Westwood. He played in a ‘perfect’ band with Lydia Lunch. And now a newly discovered archive is casting new light on this star of the New York demimonde…
‘Depraved in all the right ways’: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off
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After dinosaurs, it’s spot the dog! But can a child really learn anything in a gallery?

silverguide.site – Galleries such as National Museum Cardiff pull in children with their play areas and pencils – but stick around and you’ll notice kids critiquing Turner paintings too…
After dinosaurs, it’s spot the dog! But can a child really learn anything in a gallery?
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‘Surfers say, that board is so sick!’ The French artist redesigning the surfboard like you’ve never seen before

silverguide.site – From crab pincers to stingray shapes, Lucas Lecacheur’s designs push the boundaries of accepted norms – and they are functional too…
‘Surfers say, that board is so sick!’ The French artist redesigning the surfboard like you’ve never seen before
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Mounting Rene Matić’s snapshots in Perspex isn’t really enough to make them interesting | Charlotte Jansen

silverguide.site – The fact a queer, working-class person of colour has won the Deutsche Börse prize is cheering, but what is on display at the Photographers’ Gallery resembles a student’s Tumblr feed…
Mounting Rene Matić’s snapshots in Perspex isn’t really enough to make them interesting | Charlotte Jansen
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From men on dog leads to public breast-fondling, Valie Export’s art demanded a total feminist revolution

silverguide.site – The performance artist was a brilliantly subversive pioneer whose work exposed the predicament of women living in a world that was not made for us …
From men on dog leads to public breast-fondling, Valie Export’s art demanded a total feminist revolution
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‘You look at it and you just feel better’: this year’s Photoville festival highlights

silverguide.site – The annual New York-based display of photography contains moving pictures from behind bars and a revealing look at trans lives back in the 1990s…
‘You look at it and you just feel better’: this year’s Photoville festival highlights
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Queer eyes in focus, sculpture hits pay dirt and Whistler’s world – the week in art

silverguide.site – Hockney and more explore gender in Liverpool, Delcy Morelos makes mud spectacular and Whistler’s Mother goes on tour – all in your weekly dispatch…
Queer eyes in focus, sculpture hits pay dirt and Whistler’s world – the week in art
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Peterborough artist Rene Matić wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

silverguide.site – Photographer recognised for Berlin exhibition that documented queer love, nationalism and subcultures…
Peterborough artist Rene Matić wins Deutsche Börse photography prize
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Go big or go home: how The Lost Giants revived the ancient art of goliath-making

silverguide.site – Every fancied creating your own enormous effigy? One Cornish art collective has reinvigorated the practice – and now they want to draw on the public’s skills, too…
Go big or go home: how The Lost Giants revived the ancient art of goliath-making
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Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert

silverguide.site – Painting that inspired depiction on £20 note more likely the work of John Opie, says Romantic artist’s biographer…
Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert
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Think you have strong opinions about the 2026 Archibald prize? Check out the portraits that didn’t make the cut | Dee Jefferson

silverguide.site – The judges’ selections are, as always, bonkers – but there’s something beautifully daggy about the whole thing too…
Think you have strong opinions about the 2026 Archibald prize? Check out the portraits that didn’t make the cut | Dee Jefferson
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A woman with a bull costume exuding masculine energy: Marisol Mendez’s best photograph

silverguide.site – ‘This is part of my series Mother. I would ask my subjects: Do you feel more like a Mary Magdalene or a Virgin Mary? It’s always a fun question to ask’…
A woman with a bull costume exuding masculine energy: Marisol Mendez’s best photograph
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