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Dreams and nightmares exhibit to open at world’s oldest psychiatric hospital

www.silverguide.site – Artwork and poems from contemporary artists and former Bethlem hospital patients to go on show…
Dreams and nightmares exhibit to open at world’s oldest psychiatric hospital

Gerard Taylor obituary

www.silverguide.site – Designer who joined the Memphis collective in Milan and later concentrated on furniture for humane work environments…
Gerard Taylor obituary

Creative Australia chief executive facing mounting pressure to resign after Khaled Sabsabi controversy

www.silverguide.site – Senior arts figure says board and CEO ‘didn’t seem to understand or at least trust the power and complexity of the visual arts’…
Creative Australia chief executive facing mounting pressure to resign after Khaled Sabsabi controversy

Aussie dots, Tudor pots and nudist shots – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – Modern abstract painting from the Dreamtime, a ceramic deep dive into a Tudor power struggle and a celebration of body art…
Aussie dots, Tudor pots and nudist shots – the week in art

Wild visions of nature and carnage fuelled by hallucinogens: Santiago Yahuarcani review

www.silverguide.site – The Peruvian artist paints hybrid creatures, rocks with eyes and fish brandishing spears in a shamanistic celebration of his home and his people – but also the terrifying colonial horrors inflicted upon them…
Wild visions of nature and carnage fuelled by hallucinogens: Santiago Yahuarcani review

Creative Australia will face pressure to make ‘safe’ artistic choices after Sabsabi controversy, industry figures warn

www.silverguide.site – Critics warn a corporate-style risk framework could stifle creativity and call for a renewed commitment to artistic independence…
Creative Australia will face pressure to make ‘safe’ artistic choices after Sabsabi controversy, industry figures warn

Creative Australia apologises to Khaled Sabsabi for ‘hurt and pain’ after Venice Biennale reinstatement

www.silverguide.site – Wesley Enoch tells ABC RN the artist’s work was not about glorification of terrorism and says Sabsabi is ‘incredibly peace-loving’…
Creative Australia apologises to Khaled Sabsabi for ‘hurt and pain’ after Venice Biennale reinstatement

The enchanted car park: how a ruined multi-storey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers

www.silverguide.site – Once a hangout for sex workers and drug addicts, a parking lot in Medellín, Colombia, has been reborn as a green haven for all. We meet the ‘social urbanists’ credited with reducing crime – and even temperatures…
The enchanted car park: how a ruined multi-storey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers

Is that Elvis hitting the Vegas slot machines? Michael Rababy’s best photograph

www.silverguide.site – ‘I use a hit and run approach when photographing inside casinos. On one occasion, the sound of my camera woke a guy up and he wanted a fight’…
Is that Elvis hitting the Vegas slot machines? Michael Rababy’s best photograph

‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK

www.silverguide.site – From distinctive dot paintings to ‘unflattering’ portraits of billionaires, via bloodstained reindeer skulls piled up outside parliament, the diverse work of Indigenous artists is thrilling the art world…
‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK

Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping

www.silverguide.site – Artist says Creative Australia’s decision renews his confidence in integrity of body’s selection process…
Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping

‘Shock to creative ecology’: NSW regional art galleries face funding crisis after state pulls financial support

www.silverguide.site – Peak arts bodies urge review of decision that jeopardises institutions which are the ‘lifeblood’ of regional Australian cultural life…
‘Shock to creative ecology’: NSW regional art galleries face funding crisis after state pulls financial support

‘People laughing in the galleries’: finding humor in photography

www.silverguide.site – At the Phoenix Arts Museum, a new exhibition displays different approaches to comedy within photography…
‘People laughing in the galleries’: finding humor in photography

‘They came for our land, our wood, our gold’: Santiago Yahuarcani, Peruvian painter of dancing dolphins – and genocide

www.silverguide.site – The artist and leader of the disappearing White Heron clan paints pipe-smoking lizards, pink river dolphins – and the shocking, bloody history of plunder in the Amazon…
‘They came for our land, our wood, our gold’: Santiago Yahuarcani, Peruvian painter of dancing dolphins – and genocide

‘It’s important to talk about these things’: exhibition highlights destroyed Middle Eastern heritage sites

www.silverguide.site – Dana Awartani says Bristol show inspired by ‘dichotomy’ of some Gulf countries booming while Palestine ‘obliterated’…
‘It’s important to talk about these things’: exhibition highlights destroyed Middle Eastern heritage sites

‘So much emotion in a single image’: I join a schoolclass admiring Jenny Saville’s astonishing new portraits

www.silverguide.site – With notepads and sketchbooks in their hands, the sixth formers were intrigued by how different Saville’s faces are from the idealised images we see online. But could such youthful appreciation become a rarity?…
‘So much emotion in a single image’: I join a schoolclass admiring Jenny Saville’s astonishing new portraits

Make beads, not war: a bedazzled fighter jet lands in Seattle

www.silverguide.site – At the city’s Museum of Flight, the South African artist Ralph Ziman premieres a MiG-21 covered in tens of millions of beads to spur conversation about weapons of war…
Make beads, not war: a bedazzled fighter jet lands in Seattle

The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

www.silverguide.site – Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous…
The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery

www.silverguide.site – Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things around…
Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery

‘I was living in Doodle Land and didn’t know how to get back’: the million-dollar artist who drew himself crazy

www.silverguide.site – As Mr Doodle, Sam Cox found a global audience and made a fortune with his signature scrawls covering furniture, clothes – and eventually an entire house. But behind the scenes, he was unravelling into psychosis…
‘I was living in Doodle Land and didn’t know how to get back’: the million-dollar artist who drew himself crazy
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