You see this shape at the end of each piece, but then it’s extruded sideways, stretched out so that its neck-opening becomes a long mouth, and twisted round and about and opened out, so that what began as a bottle turns into – say – a fantastic double-shelled crustacean or an immensely complicated bit of gadgetry.This is current Cragg at his most curious and delightful. Elsewhere, regrettably, the play goes dull, particular in the forms covered all over with dice, or perforated all over with large round holes. And all too often the good old modern British semi-abstract lump rears its head and the looming shadow of late Moore and late Caro seems about to claim another victim. And anyway, what’s it all about, actually?People have a go at that one. It’s something to do with the natural and the man-made, and with science and technology, and with matter and construction and chaos Something to do with, yes. But really, all interpretations of Cragg’s work are a kind of free association, and so are the pieces themselves The sculptures are not in the meaning business They’re in the “something to do with” business. They associate from object to shape to material to function to texture and so on in any direction that they please.Which is fine, I suppose.

But it makes the work into an extremely resourceful sort of doodling, and it puts a premium on turning up a real surprise – on introducing some utterly new kind of thing into the world Cragg has done so sometimes. I think of an extraordinary thing he made about 10 years ago – a stack of I-beams on which were shelved cast-bronze sugar-beets, slashed with halloween faces and oxidised green. Never seen anything like it – and there’s certainly nothing like it in Liverpool.Opening shows: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1 Mona Hatoum to 9 July Every day, free Tony Cragg: Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 To 4 June, closed Mondays Entry £3, concs £2. An avalanche south of Salzburg has buried between 12 and 14 people, killing at least seven, rescue officials said.

An avalanche south of Salzburg has buried between 12 and 14 people, killing at least seven, rescue officials said.
The Austrian Red Cross said seven bodies had been recovered a little more than an hour after the avalanche hit. Two victims were found alive – one with serious injuries, the other only slightly hurt. The search continued for the othersAlthough original reports said all those buried were probably Germans, the Austria Press Agency later said the nationalities of the victims were unclear. The snow slide, about 150 yards wide and originating away from prepared slopes, occurred after rain in the morning, followed by sunshine.Six helicopters were assisting rescue crews looking for the victims in the Zell am See area, about 60 kilometers (30 miles) south of Salzburg.