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The idea of working with your husband or wife may not appeal to everyone, but it suits Francisco Javier Casas Cobo and Beatriz Villanueva Cajide. Joint partners in Brijuni Arquitectos in Madrid, Spain, the pair
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Tony Cragg is the latest artist to be featured in the magnificent grounds of Houghton Hall in Norfolk. For more than half a decade, this stately home has held in the spring and summer months superb one-person shows of contemporary sculpture. The exhilarating sequence was initiated with James Turrell when visitors could even come at night to see the Grade I listed house illuminated with a Turrell light piece.
Tony Cragg is among the most exuberant and exhilarating yet to be on view – MV
Other sculptors have included Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, and Richard Long: perhaps inevitably, Henry Moore (2019) has been the only historic figure in the course of modernism, and no woman has yet been shown. For perhaps obvious reasons, women are in a tiny minority of well-known sculptors, and among the best known – Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth – they tend to be figurative and perhaps even (hit me now) a bit sentimental.