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‘It was hard coming after the shallow, egocentric YBAs’: brilliantly bolshie artist Ryan Gander lambasts practically everyone

He thinks painting is futile, the YBAs were an embarrassment, and most artists today might as well be working in carpet shops. So why is his new show full of, er, paintings? We meet the confounding British artist ‘This is so bad isn’t it?” says Ryan Gander, grinning like a naughty schoolboy. “People are going to hate me when you write this up.” The 50-year-old conceptual artist has just finished telling me why, not only does he dislike drawing or painting, he finds the very act “futile and dumb”. He explains: “Copying reality with a pencil and paper just seems completely mad to me. It’s such a

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Sports

The saga that never goes away: wounds of Australian cricket reopened as ball tampering resurfaces | Jack Snape

With the issues raised in Cape Town still to be resolved, Usman Khawaja’s book threatens to damage reputations and divide cricket’s tight community Australian cricket thought it had left its great shame behind, burying it in the days after Cameron Bancroft was shown on the big screen in Cape Town putting sandpaper down his pants. Cricket Australia acted swiftly at the time, suspending the young batter, his captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner. Too swiftly, according to Usman Khawaja, whose book released on Tuesday criticised the investigation while Warner called it “rushed and bot

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Crypto

Bitcoin falls below 50-week moving average! BTC plummeted more than 40% from its historical high, and long positions of US$1 billion were liquidated. Can US$75,000 be held?

Bitcoin once again faces a key technical test! BTC once fell below $74,000 and closed below the 50-week moving average the previous week, ending a seven-week streak of holding the indicator steady. At the same time, more than $1 billion in long orders were liquidated in the derivatives market, and spot Bitcoin ETFs saw outflows of approximately $1.28 billion in a single week. The market is focused on whether support can be re-formed near $75,000. 〈Bitcoin falls below 50-week moving average! BTC plummeted more than 40% from its historical high, and long positions of US$1 billion were liquidated. Can US$75,000 be held? 〉This article was first published in "Block Guest".

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