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• The Guardian view on outdoor play: ministers should give it a whirl | Editorial

  15-07-2024 19:25
  Children are naturally playful, as the artist Francis Alÿs reminds us. But they still need support and encouragementThe Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, whose exhibition about children’s games is at the Barbican in London, describes playground “tag” as being “always about the menace of other people”.The game of chase depicted in one video in the show, shot in Mexico in 2021, is a Covid variant called Contagio. The players wear masks and, when tagged, switch th
  
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• How race influences our perception of art | Letter

  15-07-2024 18:48
  Dr Tobiasz Trawinski responds to an article on the decolonisation of sculptures in a Liverpool art galleryThe recent debate around the decolonisation of the sculpture gallery in the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool is part of a broader one currently being had in the UK: how to exhibit artworks challenging the slavery and postcolonial history of the empire (‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past, 8 July).In a series of psychological stud
  
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• Mona’s fake Picassos: performance or prank? - podcast

  15-07-2024 17:00
  
  Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art prides itself on being provocative. Mona has courted controversy on numerous occasions, but critics say it’s latest stunt has gone a step too far.The privately owned gallery has admitted to creating and displaying fake Picasso paintings for more than three years.Guardian Australia’s arts reporter Kelly Burke tells Nour Haydar why she first suspected the paintings were bogusRead more:Continue reading...
  
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• Artists should exploit AI’s capabilities, say creators of new Tate Modern show

  15-07-2024 16:49
  Exhibition traces long relationship between artists and technology, a symbiosis that is sure to continueArtists should see the advance of AI technology as an opportunity and not a new existential threat for creativity, according to the team behind Tate Modern’s new tech-based show.Catherine Wood, the museum’s director of exhibitions and programmes, said the Electric Dreams exhibition showed the decades-long relationship between artists and technology – and the fact the two worl
  
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• A load of rubbish … or a whole new reality? Hany Armanious on his ‘redemptive’ replicas show

  15-07-2024 11:51
  
  The sculptor says his uncannily accurate casts of discarded items – from Blu-Tack to burnt candles – are about redeeming waste. But really, this spellbinding show is beyond wordsAt first glance, Hany Armanious’s work is just rubbish – literally. Bits of Blu-Tack, old paint trays, half-burnt candles, a rusty table covered in sand.But the objects on display at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds are actually casts. They are not the original bits of Blu-Tack, they are utterly
  
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• ‘Its memory will live on’: prints of Sycamore Gap tree to go on display

  15-07-2024 06:00
  
  Artworks by Shona Branigan will be shown in four locations close to Hadrian’s wall, says National TrustEvery growth ring, intricate groove and tiny detail from a section of trunk of the felled Sycamore Gap tree will be on display in the first official artistic response to its loss 10 months ago.The National Trust said it had asked the printmaker Shona Branigan to make commemorative artworks in memory of a tree that was loved and known across the world and that many considered part of the D
  
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• Inside the biggest art fraud in US history - podcast

  15-07-2024 04:00
  
  Orlando Whitfield, the author of All That Glitters, on his years of friendship with the art fraudster Inigo PhilbrickOrlando Whitfield, the author of All That Glitters, tells Michael Safi about his former friendship with Inigo Philbrick, who was sentenced to seven years in 2022 for wire fraud and ordered to forfeit $86m (£68m).As students at Goldsmiths University in London, Whitfield and Philbrick decided to start dealing in art together. They sold their first piece for €15,000 (&poun
  
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