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Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses

www.silverguide.site – The Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disaster…
Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses

‘Painting’s dangerous work!’ The artist whose tools are brushes and power sanders

www.silverguide.site – Megan Rooney painstakingly creates works with layer upon layer of paint – and attacks them with a grinder in between. Ahead of a beguiling new show, our writer braves a studio tour…
‘Painting’s dangerous work!’ The artist whose tools are brushes and power sanders

‘A psychedelic explosion in a dental surgery’ – Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons review

www.silverguide.site – The first contemporary artist to take over the gallery’s main space, her signature gaping mouths, lolling tongues and broken teeth are ripe with hyper-colourful symbolism…
‘A psychedelic explosion in a dental surgery’ – Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons review

Gerard Wilson obituary

www.silverguide.site – Other lives: Art college lecturer who encouraged students to think in wider terms about what forms sculpture should take…
Gerard Wilson obituary

Brussels celebrates art deco’s mass-produced objects for the middle class

www.silverguide.site – An exhibition in the Belgian capital shows the artistic style was first to seek to appeal to a wider group of consumers…
Brussels celebrates art deco’s mass-produced objects for the middle class

Fancy some iconic celeriac? New Nordic cuisine, now a blockbuster exhibition

www.silverguide.site – Twenty years ago, a group of Scandinavian chefs announced a culinary revolution. But as Norway’s National museum celebrates the New Nordic manifesto’s impact on dining and the arts, has the movement betrayed its own ambitious ideals?…
Fancy some iconic celeriac? New Nordic cuisine, now a blockbuster exhibition

‘I paint extreme emotions’: Rachel Jones on her riotously colourful paintings – and her obsession with mouths

www.silverguide.site – Known for her colourful abstracts, the artist is getting a retrospective at the age of just 34. She talks about her love of karaoke, working on a full-length opera and how to deal with fame at a young age…
‘I paint extreme emotions’: Rachel Jones on her riotously colourful paintings – and her obsession with mouths

A magical mystery tour of Liverpool, bug-eyed cuteness and the world of vineyards – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – Roll up to the latest Biennial in the city of the Liver birds, trip the light fantastic with Liliane Lijn and wonder at a massive ox…
A magical mystery tour of Liverpool, bug-eyed cuteness and the world of vineyards – the week in art

Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’

www.silverguide.site – From self-tightening shoes to an all-purpose hands-free vibrator, this superb exhibition demonstrates that disability-led culture and design is about so much more than ramps…
Design and Disability review – ‘A world-shaping, boundary-breaking joy of a show’

One of JMW Turner’s earliest paintings rediscovered after 150 years

www.silverguide.site – Depiction of a stormy Bristol landscape to be sold after artist’s signature was found when it was cleaned…
One of JMW Turner’s earliest paintings rediscovered after 150 years

Brooding, fearsome views of a blackened earth: Jungjin Lee’s epic Iceland photographs – review

www.silverguide.site – The South Korean, who once followed an old man’s decade-long search for wild ginseng, has found the perfect subject – full of frothy seas, imposing rocks and smoky clouds…
Brooding, fearsome views of a blackened earth: Jungjin Lee’s epic Iceland photographs – review

Charity hopes to raise nearly £3m to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in UK

www.silverguide.site – New owner wants to take Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, created in Cornwall in second world war, overseas…
Charity hopes to raise nearly £3m to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in UK

Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

www.silverguide.site – He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painter…
Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown

www.silverguide.site – From the vicious acoustics of match days to supernatural moments in a church, this year’s best pieces reflect the emotional bedrock of this roaring, soulful city…
Liverpool Biennial review – AI seagulls, gladiatorial football and big trouble in Chinatown

A stranger asleep in beautiful morning light: Joanne Leonard’s best photograph

www.silverguide.site – ‘My marriage had abruptly collapsed. I was longing for intimacy – yet this was not someone I knew well’…
A stranger asleep in beautiful morning light: Joanne Leonard’s best photograph

‘A knife crime waiting to happen’: how Yoshitomo Nara became Japan’s most expensive artist

www.silverguide.site – The veteran punk painter’s twisted cherubs are a far cry from the tasteful, beautiful Japanese art that usually appears in western galleries. The retrospective about to open in the UK should be electrifying…
‘A knife crime waiting to happen’: how Yoshitomo Nara became Japan’s most expensive artist

Haunting interiors, kimonos galore and Lancashire Life magazine: what I’ve learned from snooping inside artist’s homes

www.silverguide.site – From Louise Bourgeois’s spooky Chelsea brownstone to the New Jersey abode of 98-year-old painter Lois Dodd, I’ve visited many female artists’ homes – and seen their work from a fresh perspective…
Haunting interiors, kimonos galore and Lancashire Life magazine: what I’ve learned from snooping inside artist’s homes

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions review – beauty and violence from a lost and dangerous YBA

www.silverguide.site – He died before his time but Hamad Butt’s sublimely hazardous retrospective of mustard gas baubles and blinding lights is a thrilling mix of the nostalgic and new…
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions review – beauty and violence from a lost and dangerous YBA

‘A reflection of who she was’: major Diane Arbus exhibition hits New York

www.silverguide.site – An expansive survey of the photographer’s work lands at the Park Avenue Armory, offering an unusually assembled look at her defining images…
‘A reflection of who she was’: major Diane Arbus exhibition hits New York

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art – a grand, disturbing and provocative exhibition

www.silverguide.site – Melbourne’s Potter Museum has reopened with a bold celebration of thousands of years of Indigenous art that forcefully declares ‘this is not an ethnographic collection – it’s art’…
65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art – a grand, disturbing and provocative exhibition
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