As part of the big end of April update, Animal Crossing: New Horizons art is inbound, which means a museum upgrade, and the return of our old friend / foe Redd. Currently the museum only display fossils, bugs and fish, but now there will be a new art gallery wing to unlock and fill with various works of art like paintings and sculptures.
As for how you’ll get hold Animal Crossing: New Horizons art, that’ll come from Redd. This fox is an old face for existing Animal Crossing fans, but he’s a bit of a scoundrel. He’ll sell you art, but some are real and some are fakes, and it’s up to you to figure out which ones are which.
This here is a guide on how to get involved with the Animal Crossing: New Horizons art scene, from unlocking the art gallery to finding an interacting with Redd.
Where to find Redd in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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Like the other Animal Crossing: New Horizons visitors like Kicks, CJ and Flick and now Lief, Redd will appear on your island at random during the week. However, he won’t appear in the plaza like everyone else, but he’ll dock up at your ‘secret beach’ at the top of your island.
The very first time Redd arrives he’ll actually pop over to your Plaza. You’ll know that he’s arrived as Isabelle will mention a ‘suspicious character’, and you’ll see Redd’s logo at the top of your map at your secret beach.
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He’ll then appear on your plaza if you wander down there. After that, you’ll be able to visit him on his ship and buy an assortment of art items.
How to get the Animal Crossing: New Horizons art gallery
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When Redd first appears on your island, head over to meet him at the plaza and he’ll offer you a painting. I had the ‘common painting’ and initially he asks for a lot of money to part with it. Say no, and he’ll offer it to you for a fraction of that price.
Buy it, and then take your newly purchased piece of art over to Blathers at the Animal Crossing: New Horizons museum. There will appear a new dialogue prompt that reads ‘I found a piece of art!’. Choose that, and you’ll get the option to donate your artwork to the museum. Thankfully, this one isn’t a forgery.
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This will prompt Blathers to apply for a museum expansion permit, and you’ll get the art gallery wing added the next calendar day.
How to spot an Animal Crossing: New Horizons art forgery
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When Redd’s boat does open for business, you’ll be able to peruse his shop and buy works of art including paintings and statues. However, not all of them are real. Spotting the forgeries are basically like mini-games in themselves, as they basically play out like spot the difference quests. You’ll have to look up the real work of art in most cases so you can check if the Animal Crossing version is legit.
For example, items of clothing may be a different colour to the original, have alternate hairstyles, added tongues or additional details. It’s a complicated process that requires careful studying of the real-life source material.
Complete list of Animal Crossing: New Horizons art
Thanks to Reddit users Accadia, we have what we think is the full list of art Redd has for sale, and over on Reddit they have linked out images for side-by-side comparisons too.
Thankfully there are some that have no fake version and are safe to buy from the off, which are all marked below.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
