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• Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints

  19-02-2026 18:24
  Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed bandits‘The art world has a real issue with making things overly conceptual, too complicated and using wanky jargon,” says Trackie McLeod. “It alienates people.” So, for his latest show, Utopia, the 32-year-old Glaswegian has decided to create something more welcoming an
  
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• ‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

  19-02-2026 11:01
  A rare gilded and complete Book of the Dead, used by ancient Egyptians to help them to the afterlife, is now on display in BrooklynIn the ancient world, travel to eternal bliss was not easy. For the Greeks, you’d have to hitch a ride with Charon across the River Styx and hope you were one of the few fortunate souls to make it to Elysium. If you were lived among the ancient Aztecs, your journey to Mictlan involved numerous struggles, including climbing a mountain made of obsidian and crossi
  
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• Good Morning,

  19-02-2026 01:42 via artsjournal.com
  Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman died yesterday at 96 — forty-seven films in fifty-six years, most of them about institutions under stress. The New Yorker makes the case that no one in his generation comes close (The New Yorker). He would have had plenty of material today.The Fresno Arts Council is under investigation for $1.5 million in alleged embezzlement, and the city has stripped it of its grant-making authority (The Fresno Bee). The UK’s National Gallery — 4 millio
  
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