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Barbara Hepworth

May 2024

  • Welcome to nana land … Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Tuscany, which she lived in for seven years.

    The great women's art bulletin
    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

February 2024

  • Lynda Benglis pouring Adhesive Products (1971).

    Beyond Form review: the dogged gunk rockers who besieged the art world – and the disco

    From Bridget Riley’s grids to Louise Bourgeois’s phallic bulges, this show is a glorious celebration of female abstract artists whose often-denigrated work now feels unstoppable

September 2023

  • large bronze head that looks like an ancient statue lying on the grass, partly submerged

    An arty weekend in ...
    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

July 2023

  • Barbara Hepworth watches her sculpture Winged Figure being installed on the side of the John Lewis store on Oxford Street, London, on 21 April 1963.

    Searching high and low for unexpected art

    Letters: Ian Skidmore responds to Katy Hessel’s article mentioning Boris Anrep’s mosaics at the National Gallery. Plus letters from Philip Rutnam and John Bailey

May 2023

  • Result! Contenders find a worm at the Falmouth Worm Charming Championships.

    ‘Amazing but absurd’: how worm-charming is drawing Cornish art back to its roots

    Among artist Georgia Gendall’s projects is a riotous annual competition to lure these creatures from the soil – hopefully shifting some local cliches with them

January 2023

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Republic of Parenthood
    I left my baby to write this. How do artists balance creativity and the ache for their child?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    All writers and painters who are mothers must tread a heroic path. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have to, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

November 2022

  • Barbara Hepworth at work on the plaster for Oval Form (Trezion) 1963

    Of stone and wood: sculptor Barbara Hepworth steps out of Henry Moore’s shadow

    Almost half a century after her death, the prolific British artist, whose ‘holes’ in sculptures changed modern abstract art, has her first major exhibition in Australia

September 2021

  • Nwando Ebizie 2021 Photo by Edd Sanders Yorkshire Sculpture International Summer 2021 Programme

    Hepworth’s soothing sounds transport you – Yorkshire Sculpture International review

    An alternative audio tour of Barbara Hepworth’s works is pure poetry, while digital ghosts from slave voyages haunt us. But is there enough sculpture?

May 2021

  • Barbara Hepworth at work on the plaster for
Oval Form (Trezion),
1963.

    Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life review – a blockbuster of diminishing returns

  • Barbara Hepworth with her sculptures in her garden in St Ives, Cornwall.

    Barbara Hepworth by Eleanor Clayton review – art and life

April 2021

  • Clockwise from bottom left: Pouch, 2020 by Veronica Ryan, Possessions, 2004 by Paula Rego, Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles 1930 by Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Miss Hybrid #3, 2008 by Shirin Aliabadi, Forms in Movement (Galliard), 1956 by Barbara Hepworth.

    The grand reopening: our critics pick the best art shows for 2021

    If all goes to plan, UK galleries will open from the end of April for a busier-than-ever season. Here’s our guide to the top post-lockdown shows

March 2021

  • Fertile pastures ... An aerial view of Northumberlandia, near Cramlington.

    10 of the best ...
    From Skyspace to The Scallop: 10 of the best outdoor art works

    Bronze lozenges, Cumbrian moss and a colossal female nude: as restrictions lift, here are the greatest alfresco spectacles

January 2021

  • Oval Sculpture, 1943, by Barbara Hepworth.

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art tour: half a Hepworth that became a whole

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Orkney’s Oval Sculpture

October 2020

  • Barbara Hepworth in London in 1932 with her sculpture Woman.

    Barbara Hepworth's time in London marked with blue plaque

    English Heritage plaque in St John’s Wood honours artist and first husband John Skeaping

April 2020

  • Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and their triplets in the László Moholy-Nagy’s garden.

    Circles and Squares by Caroline Maclean review – the Hampstead modernists

    From Bauhaus to bohemian love … the intricate lives and art of interwar modernists are captured in this hugely enjoyable and well-plotted book
  • Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson with the triplets.

    Letters reveal postnatal crisis of Barbara Hepworth

    Previously unpublished correspondence sheds new light on artist’s struggle to pursue career while caring for triplets alone
  • John and Terry Bequest Terence Bacon and John Oldham bequest April 2020 All images © Nick Singleton

    ‘We bought things we liked’: amateurs’ stunning gallery gift

    Couple donate 100 artworks to Hepworth Wakefield Gallery after collecting in trips across Britain

March 2020

  • The playwright Githa Sowerby (1876-1970), who wrote Rutherford and Son

    Blue plaque equality is still a long way off

  • Sculptor Barbara Hepworth

    New blue plaques for women honour spies, artist and suffragettes

December 2019

  • Detail of Orpheus (Maquette 1) by Barbara Hepworth

    Hepworth sculpture among three modernist works given to nation

    Orpheus (Maquette 1) from 1956 will go on display at Hepworth Wakefield gallery in February
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