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Mona’s fake Picassos: performance or prank?

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July 15, 2024 10:00am

17m

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art prides itself on being provocative. Mona has courted controversy on numerous occasions, but critics say its 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 bogus