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• A Year in Art: Australia, 1992 review – dreams and nightmares

  13-06-2021 14:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  The 200-year battle for indigenous land rights in Australia is the focus of a devastating – and richly rewarding – exhibitionAustralia was founded on a Saturday, according to Algernon Talmage’s ludicrous painting of the scene. Assorted British officers raise their beer mugs to the union jack, hoisted above the gum trees: cheers! It could be any old cup final, except that this is Sydney Cove in 1788.The other side of the story at Tate Modern appears, very apt
  
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• Serpentine Pavilion 2021 review – a sophisticated chimera of light and depth

  13-06-2021 12:00
  
  Kensington Gardens, London
  The youngest architect ever to design the annual temporary structure has created an airy gathering place inspired by diasporic London spacesThe Serpentine Gallery’s Pavilion, an architectural essay that appears in Kensington Gardens every summer, pandemics permitting, tends to be a bit of a sketch. Intriguing ideas by imaginative architects get blurred by the exigencies of project management. Details don’t always survive their first encounter with the build
  
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• How did a £120 painting become a £320m Leonardo … then vanish?

  13-06-2021 07:15
  
  A film about the disputed Salvator Mundi blames the National Gallery for its role in giving credibility to the claim that it was the artist’s lost workThe National Gallery is facing controversy over its role in the tangled story of how the world’s most expensive painting emerged from obscurity before being sold for a staggering £320m, only to vanish again from the public eye.The gallery exhibited the Salvator Mundi in its Leonardo da Vinci exhibition a decade ago when it was an
  
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