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‘Art can be a release’: how Black Girls in Art Spaces is bridging cultural gaps

www.silverguide.site – The organization has nearly 40 chapters across the US and cultivates communities in which Black women and girls engage with art…
‘Art can be a release’: how Black Girls in Art Spaces is bridging cultural gaps

Norfolk woman hands over 16th-century painting identified as stolen 50 years ago

www.silverguide.site – Exclusive: Barbara de Dozsa had argued ownership because work by Italian artist Solario had been bought in good faith…
Norfolk woman hands over 16th-century painting identified as stolen 50 years ago

‘Fearless exploration’: visionary Australian artist Janet Dawson gets her first retrospective aged 90

www.silverguide.site – Art Gallery of NSW exhibition spanning more than six decades is a long-overdue celebration of a life lived through art, where nature and abstraction converge in luminous harmony…
‘Fearless exploration’: visionary Australian artist Janet Dawson gets her first retrospective aged 90

Mutant seabirds, sewer secrets and a lick of art ice-cream: Folkestone Triennial review

www.silverguide.site – Various venues The salty nooks of this harbour town are the setting for a bleakly brilliant coastal festival taking in migrants’ plight, water pollution, burial urns – and some sweet relief…
Mutant seabirds, sewer secrets and a lick of art ice-cream: Folkestone Triennial review

Alien landscapes, Arctic artists and pioneers of pleasure – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – Georgia O’Keeffe and David Hockney enjoy the air, the British Museum looks to the far north, and the Folkestone Triennial gets under way…
Alien landscapes, Arctic artists and pioneers of pleasure – the week in art

Sculpture in the City/Bloomberg Space review – folk horror bubbles up under towering icons of cash

www.silverguide.site – New commissions on this enjoyable art trail from the Wilson sisters, Ai Weiwei and Andrew Sabin remind us that this part of London is full of echoes of ancient ritual…
Sculpture in the City/Bloomberg Space review – folk horror bubbles up under towering icons of cash

‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

www.silverguide.site – From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringes…
‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

www.silverguide.site – Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinations…
Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Australia’s octogenarian basketball team know it’s never too late to don the green and gold

www.silverguide.site – For over-80s at the world championships, the game is played on a smaller court with extended shot clocks – and in this age category, competition can sometimes feature courtside defibrillation…
Australia’s octogenarian basketball team know it’s never too late to don the green and gold

The cowboy as a symbol of America: Jim Krantz’s best photograph

www.silverguide.site – ‘When I look at this photograph I want to be that guy. He’s super alive and in the moment. Everything about it is energising, masculine, powerful’…
The cowboy as a symbol of America: Jim Krantz’s best photograph

Never mind the Norman bollocks: Reading’s replica Bayeux tapestry is a prudish triumph!

www.silverguide.site – It may not be completely anatomically accurate, but the Victorian copy of the Bayeux tapestry is as much an emblem of its time as the 11th-century original…
Never mind the Norman bollocks: Reading’s replica Bayeux tapestry is a prudish triumph!

‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

www.silverguide.site – For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspective…
‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

A bite-sized Cherry Bar? The artist creating miniatures of beloved Melbourne music venues

www.silverguide.site – David Hourigan has made tiny versions of the Tote, the Espy and many more down to the cigarette butts and band posters, wanting to ‘preserve these before they disappear’…
A bite-sized Cherry Bar? The artist creating miniatures of beloved Melbourne music venues

Please do touch: sculpture exhibition curated by blind people to feature tactile works

www.silverguide.site – Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, hosting Beyond the Visual, hopes to challenge ‘ocularcentric bias’ in galleries…
Please do touch: sculpture exhibition curated by blind people to feature tactile works

‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv

www.silverguide.site – A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt?…
‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv

Cyborgs, snapchat dysmorphia and AI-led surgery: has our digital age ruined beauty?

www.silverguide.site – From photo-editing apps to ‘Instagram face’, technology has radically altered the way we see ourselves. Ahead of a new exhibition at Somerset House, our critic considers the meaning of art in a digital age…
Cyborgs, snapchat dysmorphia and AI-led surgery: has our digital age ruined beauty?

When John Crace met his Waterloo | Brief letters

www.silverguide.site – Brief letters: Paintings in parliament | Keighley’s finest | Taking the water | Spot the lawnmower…
When John Crace met his Waterloo | Brief letters

Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles

www.silverguide.site – Ex-PM among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to Greece…
Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles

‘Occupation is buried deep in our psyche’: the haunting exhibition showing Irish support for Palestinians

www.silverguide.site – From checkpoint photos to a bullet-ridden car door memorialising the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab, a new show highlights the shared resistance between Irish and Palestinian artists…
‘Occupation is buried deep in our psyche’: the haunting exhibition showing Irish support for Palestinians

Lubaina Himid has a chance encounter and Ai Weiwei takes to the streets – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – The Turner prize-winner collaborates with Magda Stawarska, Weiwei unveils a public sculpture and Hockney and Emin celebrate the power of drawing…
Lubaina Himid has a chance encounter and Ai Weiwei takes to the streets – the week in art
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