For the first and (he says) last time, Sir Antony Gormley has turned TV presenter. Britain’s foremost sculptor, now 68, has no illusions about the result: a 75-minute BBC Two film called How Art Began. “I’m not Simon Schama or Kenneth Clark, telling you everything you need to know about something and what you should think about it,” he says. “I am just going down some holes and the camera is there filming my reactions to what I see.”
The “holes” are caves containing examples of the world’s most ancient art — some of it perhaps 30 millennia old. Gormley and his wife, Vicken, visited the caves in France on their honeymoon in 1980. That was the year after they left the Slade School
