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Venturing out

PUBS and restaurants with beer gardens and usable outside spaces are not the only fortunate businesses at the end of lockdown. Art dealers who have space for outdoor sculpture shows have been well placed to take advantage of the combination of the collecting instinct and itchy feet. Country picture galleries with converted barns and ancillary buildings will also attract visitors.

As mentioned here on July 1, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has re-opened its Bruton site , so that pre-booked visitors can nowand Franz West. Numbers are limited, so pre-book for a tour in July and August. Indoors, visitors will be able to see ‘Don McCullin: The Stillness of Life’, the exhibition of landscape photographs that opened in January (‘; ).

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