‘They look sad’: Tony Cragg scraps audio guides for Castle Howard exhibition

‘They look sad’: Tony Cragg scraps audio guides for Castle Howard exhibition

Sculptor says he wants visitors to form their own relationships with art, without ‘anyone else interfering’

They are ubiquitous at art galleries across the world: the audio guide telling shuffling visitors the full story of what they are looking at and occasionally how they should feel.

In the eyes of Sir Tony Cragg, one of the world’s leading sculptors, they are a “terrible” modern scourge that “mess up” the enjoyment of art. “I think they look sad,” he said. “It is a new world image that I really dislike and distrust intensely.”

Tony Cragg at Castle Howard opens on 3 May and runs until 22 September.

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