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DAY ONE seminars, workshops and screenings,
10:00 Feed your mind… and even boasts its own bookshop. And,
Why not start your Bruton adventure while we’re on ma"ers cultural, why
at, arguably, its best-known resident? not plan your visit for May to coincide
International art gallery Hauser & with the annual Bruton Festival of
Wirth launched its Bruton gallery Arts (brutonfestival.co.uk), featuring
(hauserwirth.com) in 2014, to talks, performances, music, stalls and
accompany sibling galleries in London, even ba"le re-enactments?
New York and Zürich. The Bruton
o!shoot is of great architectural merit 13:00 … and your body
(a renovation of a once-derelict Happily, you don’t have to move far
farmhouse, it won a 2015 RIBA South from this rural cultural hotspot to get a
West Award). It’s also a supremely great lunch. Under its vaulted wooden
relaxing place to take in some art and beams, Hauser & Wirth’s on-site
culture, si"ing as it does in 100 acres restaurant Roth Bar & Grill
of #elds and woodland, including a (rothbarandgrill.co.uk) serves seasonal,
perennial meadow designed by locally sourced produce, and is #lled
renowned landscape gardener Piet with works of art. There’s also a bar
Oudolf. Focused on conservation, created by Björn and Oddur Roth, the
education and sustainability, son and grandson of Swiss artist
ABOVE & BELOW Hauser & Hauser & Wirth Somerset Dieter Roth (1930-98). Visit when the
Wirth is a world-class gallery programmes exhibitions, talks, weather’s #ne and you may catch
and arts centre; the landscaped
gardens surrounding the gallery
add colour and vibrancy to the
artworks within and without.
Hauser & Wirth is a
supremely relaxing place
to take in some art and
culture, si!ing in 100 Christopher Nicholson/Alamy Stock Photo
acres, which include
a perennial meadow.
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