Inflatable clowns and art in the post: welcome to the future of sculpture
Portable Sculpture, a new show in Leeds, offers a zany hint as to art’s direction. Its leading young lights explain what they’re thinking
19 May 2021 • 12:16pm
Portable Sculpture, at Leeds s Henry Moore Institute, contains a wide range of works old and new
Credit: Nick Singleton
The lineage of post-war sculpture in Britain is often described as a dysfunctional family tree. A line of descent can be traced from Henry Moore onto Anthony Caro, who overturned his ex-employer’s dictum, “truth to materials”, with brightly painted steel structures. Next came Caro’s student Richard Long, who did away with objects entirely in his Line Made by Walking, a photograph of grass flattened by the artist’s footsteps; then the likes of Tony Cragg and Anish Kapoor, who rejected conceptual tricks and returned to making big sculptures; and eventually we reach Rachel Whiteread, at the turn of the ce
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A case of buyer beware or sellersâ deceit?
A B.C. couple who purchased a motorhome in a private sale before driving it or even seeing it sued the sellers because they found it was unsafe to drive and said the sellers knew it.
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A case of buyer beware or sellers’ deceit?
A B.C. couple who purchased a motorhome in a private sale before driving it or even seeing it sued the sellers because they found it was unsafe to drive and said the sellers knew it.
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Sandra Burnstad and Richard Long asked for the sellers to refund their $4,500 because the motorhome was “undriveable and unsellable.” They told B.C.’s civil resolution tribunal they hadn’t agreed to purchase it when they gave the sellers the full amount they asked for and were only taking it for a test drive.
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A case of buyer beware or sellers’ deceit?
Two people who purchased a motorhome in a private sale before driving it or even seeing it sued the sellers because they found it was unsafe to drive and said the sellers knew it.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Buyer beware: Angry duo buys, dumps mouldy RV, sticking sellers with tow costs Back to video
Sandra Burnstad and Richard Long asked for the sellers to refund their $4,500 because the motorhome was “undriveable and unsellable.” They told B.C.’s civil resolution tribunal they hadn’t agreed to purchase it when they gave the sellers the full amount they asked for and were only taking it for a test drive.
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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.