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• A niqab and balloon shoes for a Moroccan basketball fan: Mous Lamrabat’s best photograph

  27-07-2022 16:07
  
  ‘We recreated a pair of Nike trainers and I used Michael Jordan’s number on the niqab. It’s as if, in a parallel universe, this is the uniform for basketball’I was born in the north of Morocco, with six siblings. We moved to Belgium when I was two but went back to visit family every year. They were the best times, when memories were made and inspiration was created. Nostalgia is one of my favourite feelings. It takes you back to when you were more free, and I’ve tri
  
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• Flung pickle token: artist asks $10,000 for McDonald’s burger ingredient

  27-07-2022 07:46
  
  New Zealanders’ verdicts divided between ‘genius’ and ‘moronic’ as Auckland gallery exhibits fermented vegetable on ceilingA NZ$10,000 artwork consisting of a single slice of pickle plucked from a McDonald’s cheeseburger and flung on to the ceiling of an Auckland art gallery is a deliberately “provocative gesture” designed to question what has value, the artist’s gallery says.The work, titled Pickle, belongs to Sydney-based Australian artist
  
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