Keep it wheel: Carhenge returns to Glastonbury - photo essay

In the week of the summer solstice, mutoid metal guru Joe Rush has re-created his tribute to the ancient site of Stonehenge - and explains why he hopes it will inspire a new generation of environmental activism When the artist Joe Rush first built Carhenge at Glastonbury in 1987 - as the name suggests, it's Stonehenge recreated with scrap-metal cars - the political conditions were rather different to the ones under which it has been rebuilt at the festival this year."36 years ago we were much younger and they were very wild times. It was more extreme than it is now," Rush says. "Police were attacking us all the time; things were much more unofficial. It was an alternative culture." Continue reading...