Wear your clothes backwards and learn cartooning artists share lockdown tips

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From Martin Parr’s indoor photography challenge to Martin Creed’s guitar-playing tutorial, artists are showing how the coronavirus needn’t mean an end to creativity
The doors of the world’s finest museums, galleries and art fairs may now be firmly closed for who knows how long. But art can still reach us in dazzling detail, via the now essential gateway of social media. Large organisations were the first to get involved, with MoMA in New York and the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A in London jumping on the #MuseumFromHome campaign. Yet, as the big institutions were dreaming up ways for us to ogle their collections while stretched out on our sofas, artists themselves were coming up with some slightly more altruistic ideas.
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