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Richard Dadd review – can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?

www.silverguide.site – Dadd was already a remarkable artist – with fairies as his hit theme – before he was locked up for murder. Yet it was within the confines of Bedlam that he saw nature and art afresh…
Richard Dadd review – can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?

Hockney’s Pop pals, Warhol’s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – David Hockney is shown alongside Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns and Helen Chadwick’s provocations have a wild Welsh setting…
Hockney’s Pop pals, Warhol’s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool – the week in art

Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating

www.silverguide.site – The Empire State building is caught in bed with the Chrysler Building and a milk bottle turns into a dragon in the sexed-up and cheekily provocative work of the Dutch artist and architect…
Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating

Renzo Piano’s giant glass cube towers over the rest of the Stirling prize’s samey brick-built shortlist

www.silverguide.site – Coming from the same developer as the Shard, London’s latest trophy building may be 54 storeys shorter than envisaged but should rise to building of the year…
Renzo Piano’s giant glass cube towers over the rest of the Stirling prize’s samey brick-built shortlist

Backyard Biennial: East review – this morose and meaningless exhibition gave me a migraine

www.silverguide.site – I feel bad for the artists whose work has been crowbarred into a wonky framework that makes them look as confused as the curators…
Backyard Biennial: East review – this morose and meaningless exhibition gave me a migraine

Brazilian World Cup legend Jairzinho takes a shot: Michael Donald’s best photograph

www.silverguide.site – ‘Nowadays Jairzinho works with kids in the favelas of Rio where the unwritten rule is that you have to be out by 5pm. I asked for 10 more minutes and when I turned round, a guy had pulled a gun on my crew’…
Brazilian World Cup legend Jairzinho takes a shot: Michael Donald’s best photograph

Richard Dadd: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum

www.silverguide.site – Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental illness…
Richard Dadd: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum

Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century

www.silverguide.site – This exhibition makes nothing of the Cuban-American artist’s controversial death – instead it focuses on the astounding way she left an imprint of herself on the earth using blood, feathers and gunpowder…
Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century

New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish ‘naive and uncultured’ myth

www.silverguide.site – Gallery director says collection of 140 paintings will offer a more balanced view of Manchester painter’s work…
New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish ‘naive and uncultured’ myth

Yvonne Rainer, Trio A review: watching this thrilling performance for free feels like an enormous privilege

www.silverguide.site – With this work, the choreographer changed the course of dance – and on its 60th anniversary, viewed by babies, tourists and passers-by, it’s as beguiling and hypnotic as ever…
Yvonne Rainer, Trio A review: watching this thrilling performance for free feels like an enormous privilege

Arles photography festival review: who needs big names when you’ve got cute animals and alien abductions?

www.silverguide.site – It’s the world’s most prestigious photography show, but Les Rencontres de la Photographie really flies thanks to the jaw-dropping work of eccentrics, amateurs and complete unknowns…
Arles photography festival review: who needs big names when you’ve got cute animals and alien abductions?

Debjani Banerjee review: is that a Henry hoover – or a Hindu deity?

www.silverguide.site – Banerjee’s blend of British suburbia and ancient Bengali traditions is an imaginative portrayal of the artist’s dual heritage – and questions how we preserve culture today…
Debjani Banerjee review: is that a Henry hoover – or a Hindu deity?

Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain – the week in art

www.silverguide.site – Tate Modern hosts a major exhibition of Ana Mendieta, Constable turns 250 and the accidental beauty captured by unattended online cameras – all in your weekly dispatch…
Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain – the week in art

The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age

www.silverguide.site – While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose …
The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age

Bed rot, doomscrolling and a single goldfish: the Melbourne art show blowing loneliness open

www.silverguide.site – Featuring Lucy Liu, Polly Borland and a hand-woven tapestry packed with memes, Acca’s latest exhibition is a tragi-comedy for the restlessly online…
Bed rot, doomscrolling and a single goldfish: the Melbourne art show blowing loneliness open

An Afghan girl calmly milks a giant yak: Daniel Malikyar’s best photograph

www.silverguide.site – ‘In the Pamir Mountains, there’s salted yak milk every morning for breakfast. You stay warm at night on the floor in the yurt burning yak dung in the furnace’…
An Afghan girl calmly milks a giant yak: Daniel Malikyar’s best photograph

Baldy Man, Gold Blend flirters and mash-mad Martians: TV’s golden age ads

www.silverguide.site – As the History of Advertising Trust turns 50, our writer revels in its vast archive, remembering the bread boy on his bike, the suggestive coffee-drinkers and the Hamlet smoker adjusting his comb-over…
Baldy Man, Gold Blend flirters and mash-mad Martians: TV’s golden age ads

‘Charged with horror and anguish’: Arthur Boyd’s nightmarish Nebuchadnezzar series opens in major new Bundanon show

www.silverguide.site – Not for the faint-hearted, this is the first large-scale presentation of the Australian artist’s anti-Vietnam war, hallucinatory works since the late 60s…
‘Charged with horror and anguish’: Arthur Boyd’s nightmarish Nebuchadnezzar series opens in major new Bundanon show

Beth McKillop obituary

www.silverguide.site – Museum curator and scholar with a special focus on Korean art…
Beth McKillop obituary

What would Frida think about today’s kitsch Kahlomania? | Letters

www.silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about the artist’s legacy and the impact of the Tate Modern’s blockbuster exhibition…
What would Frida think about today’s kitsch Kahlomania? | Letters
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