For the past five decades, Turner Prize-winner Richard Long has been on the go-traveling to the far corners of the world to create works of land art that are meditations on the body's movement through nature. Recently, his perambulations led him to Houghton Hall, the English estate designed for Sir Robert Walpole, Great Britain's first prime minister, in the early 18th century. The results of Long's solitary walks on the grounds appear in "Earth Sky," a solo exhibition on view through October 26 (houghtonhall.com). Outside, he's gathered pieces of Cornish slate into a monumental spiral; arranged tree stumps found on the property into a circle, their roots up; and amassed hunks of carstone into a nearly 100-yard-long line, among other spellbinding feats. The exhibition continues inside, where small-scale works " are joined by a compass-shaped installation of slate and flint. Would Walpole, a legendary art lover, approve? We think so.
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