Sir Anthony gets his own Avenue

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Published online 20 Nov 09

Avenue Anthony Caro

Avenue Anthony Caro

The residents of Bourbourg in northern France have evidently taken Sir Anthony Caro to their hearts. This week, a street in the town was named after the grand old man of British sculpture, marking the first anniversary of Caro's dramatic sculptural renovation of the local Norman church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bourbourg. The impressive-sounding Avenue Anthony Caro certainly beats the thoroughfare's former name: Rue de Gravelines.....

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