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• Close your eyes and try to stay grounded | Brief letters

  27-06-2022 18:08
  
  A test of skill | Touching distance | Life your spirits with Country Diary | Forerunner of rugby union | Ending the blue periodThose getting rather cocky about their ability to stand on one leg (Letters, 26 June) should try doing the exercise with their eyes closed. This will bring them back down to earth much more quickly than they expected.Ron BrewerOld Buckenham, Norfolk• I am 93 and cannot stand on one leg. I can, however, touch my toes with (almost) straight legs. How much longer do I
  
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• Wayfinder review – pandemic dream quest through myth of Britain

  27-06-2022 12:00
  
  Larry Achiampong’s titular character journeys across an empty UK, sifting through fragments of empire and Black experience in search of a country and communityBritish-Ghanian artist Larry Achiampong has created a complex and thoughtful piece, partly under the aegis of the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. It is a curation of scenes and images that straddles the concepts of the essay movie, the road movie and – that emerging genre – the lockdown movie. Perside Rodrigues po
  
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• Wayfinder review – pandemic dream quest through Britain’s mythic landscape

  27-06-2022 12:00
  
  Larry Achiampong’s titular character journeys across an empty UK, sifting through fragments of empire and Black experience in search of a country and communityBritish-Ghanian artist Larry Achiampong has created a complex and thoughtful piece, partly under the aegis of the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate. It is a curation of scenes and images that straddles the concepts of the essay movie, the road movie and – that emerging genre – the lockdown movie. Perside Rodrigues po
  
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• ‘This was properly amazing work’: the artist’s life’s work found in a skip

  27-06-2022 09:00
  
  George Westren’s op-art drawings went viral on social media after a neighbour saved them from the tip – now they might get an exhibition of their own For a short time last week, the entire works of artist George Westren were sat in a skip, heading for the rubbish dump. A few hours later, however, and they were going viral on social media, with people across the world marvelling at his technique and enquiring as to how they might buy some of the late artist’s work.None of this w
  
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• Macabre, biased and fascinating: why you should visit the Wellcome Collection

  27-06-2022 08:00
  
  The permanent collection of gruesome medical artefacts, is just one of the attractions at this mesmerising and forward-looking London institutionI suspect most Londoners discover the Wellcome Collection by accident. Occupying a handsome white building planted foursquare on a corner of Euston Road, its airy ground-floor cafe is the perfect place for a midday coffee meeting or solo work-stop. Unless people have a curious wander, little will they know that lurking one floor up is the perfect, morbi
  
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• Artist Chaz Guest: ‘I’m battling having my culture be so misrepresented’

  27-06-2022 07:15
  
  The painter, cosigned by the Obamas, talks his new solo exhibition, his respect for his ancestors and why he remains fascinated by Black soldiers “When I paint I’m feeling joy. I’m feeling what life is supposed to be like. I’m feeling free. I’m going after what it means to be a human being.” These are the words African American artist Chaz Guest spoke to me from his studio in Los Angeles on the eve of a new solo show in his home city. Joy is very much evident
  
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