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Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture worth £3.5 million at risk of leaving UK

The wooden painted sculpture, made in the 1940s, has been exhibited at the Tate galleries.

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2024

Unseen Barbara Hepworth letters reveal ‘recipes’ for sculptures – and her high standards

A cache of notes that will be auctioned this week include the artist’s instructions to her bronze foundry and show how deeply involved she was with the casting process

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2024

Where tourists seldom tread, part 13: three more British places with tales to tell

We visit Wakefield’s rhubarb triangle Britannia’s westernmost amphitheatre in Carmarthen, and Colne - home of Monty Python’s favourite cobblestones

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024

Thrill me, hide me, restore me: what can we learn about artists from their gardens?

From the spectacular Tarot Garden Niki de Saint Phalle built in Tuscany to Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture oasis in St Ives, artists’ green spaces are about so much more than plants and pruning

The Guardian - UK · May 13, 2024

Inside Poul Kjærholm's Danish family home

Iconic Danish designer Poul Kjærholm’s archive gets a new lease of life at the family residence on the Øresund strait, courtesy of his children and Fritz Hansen

Wallpaper · Dec 25, 2023

Tolkien and CS Lewis manuscripts among treasures made available to public in 2023

Spitting Image puppets and Barbara Hepworth works also donated via Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Henry Moore’s ‘missing’ sculpture Head on sale to the public for the first time

Not seen in public since 1952, the unique alabaster carving is expected to fetch up to £3m at auction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

OPINION - John Lewis’s problems go far deeper than just Sharon White

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023

Hepworth, Moore and more: an arty weekend in Wakefield, West Yorkshire

With Europe’s largest sculpture park and galleries showcasing modern and contemporary British art, this former industrial powerhouse has a lot to feast your eyes on

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub

Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2023