This exhibition scares me

David Walsh gives his thumbs up to "faking it", in a hunt for recreating – or debunking – the great masters.
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Film still, Tim’s Vermeer (2013), documentary by Teller, Penn Jilette and Farley Ziegler; supplied with courtesy 

‘This exhibition scares me. It’s science being conducted as live art and vice versa. Whatever happens will be beyond my control, David Walsh’s control, and the control of these artists,’ says Texan, Tim Jenison. 

Jenison is an inventor and entrepreneur. It is not surprising that he has paired up with Hobart’s David Walsh to present ‘a live art experiment’ at Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina