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Artist duo Ackroyd and Harvey have planted 100 oak trees outside Tate Modern Ackroyd & Harvey, Beuys’ Acorns, 2021. (c) Tate Photography (Seraphina Neville) A forest of 100 young oaks has taken root on the terrace outside Tate Modern, where it will remain throughout the summer until 14 November. But these are no ordinary trees. They are the direct progeny of 7,000 oak trees planted by the artist, environmental activist and German Green Party founder Joseph Beuys in and around the city of Kassel in Germany between 1982-87. This now-seminal work was called 7,000 Oaks City Forestation Instead of City Administration and the introduction of these multiple trees, each one accompanied by its own basalt standing stone, permanently altered the local cityscape and connected art to the emerging environmental movement. ....