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July 2024

  • (L-R) The Mother, 1958-59; Savacou, 1964; Johanaan, 1936. Ronald Moody

    Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life; Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud; Bharti Kher: Alchemies – review

    A long-awaited retrospective of the Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody exudes humanity; South Africa’s Igshaan Adams is a weaver of dreams; and surrealism meets Asian tradition in the giant goddesses of Bharti Kher

June 2024

  • Ronald Moody with Johanaan in 1963.

    Dentist, modernist, activist: the many lives of sculptor Ronald Moody

    A new book and exhibition celebrate the Jamaica-born British artist, poet, broadcaster and educator whose influence still reverberates

January 2024

  • Kim Lim, Day, 1966.

    Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light; Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here? – review

    Toughness meets grace in a fine retrospective of the late Singaporean-British artist Kim Lim, while the convivial Scottish painter Andrew Cranston finds ready-made canvases, using the covers of old hardback books

April 2023

  • sculpture by Sheila Gaffney

    If Not Now, When? review – a timely tour through feminist sculpture

    From flattened coffee pots to a steel wedding dress, embroidery to a rotting dessert trolley, a kaleidoscopic range of work by women sculptors is part of a vital generational study

March 2023

  • Amazon Love God Statue by the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills

    Amazonian love god a mockery of our God, say Wakefield Christians

    Objectors say placement of lifesize statue near city’s cathedral is ‘disrespectful’, but artist says work celebrates love and hope

October 2022

  • Untitled, May 1997.

    Hannah Starkey: In Real Life review – women from all angles

  • Hannah Starkey’s Beauty Shop, 2022.

    Photographer Hannah Starkey: ‘All my work is basically asking women: How’s it going?’

April 2022

  • Sheila Hicks.

    ‘Colour is in my blood!’: the vivid life of artist Sheila Hicks

    She was taught by Josef Albers, bought rugs for Stanley Kubrick, and lives where Dr Guillotin experimented with his equipment. Yet, at 87, there’s only one person the great textile artist wants to impress

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?

December 2020

  • Clockwise from top left, Kingston University’s Town House by Grafton Architect, an image by Adi Nes as part of the Barbican exhibition Masculinities, a portrait by Zanele Muholi and Derek Jarman’s house in Dungeness.

    Best culture 2020
    The best photography and architecture of 2020: high camp to Dungeness

    Masculinity was under the microscope, queer lives recorded and Derek Jarman’s garden recreated in London

July 2020

  • Painting by Maggi Hambling, 1974. Read the quiz to see if you got his identity right.

    The great British art quiz
    Can you name this Scottish boxer? The great British art quiz

    The Hepworth Wakefield set today’s quiz, in our series that explores the collections of British museums closed due to Covid-19

February 2020

  • Bill Brandt,
Northumbrian Miner at his Evening Meal,
1937
Gelatin silver print, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, © Bill Brandt/Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.
Photo: Yale Center for British Art

    Bill Brandt/Henry Moore review – a coruscating chronicle of British life

    Hepworth Wakefield
    From blitz victims to dust-coated miners and the rocks of Stonehenge, the affinities between German photographer and British sculptor are shown in works of sepulchral beauty

October 2019

  • Alan Davie
Cross for the White Birds
1965
Oil on canvas
© The Estate of Alan Davie.
Image courtesy The Hepworth Wakefield

    Copulation at its fruitiest – David Hockney, Alan Davie, Christina Quarles review

    Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
    An obsession with writhing bodies is the theme in this lovely show full of signs of cross-fertilisation

April 2019

  • Tom Stuart-Smith designed the Hepworth Wakefield Garden.

    Wakefield wasteland transformed into £1.8m sculpture garden

    Hepworth Wakefield Garden, designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, to open in June near gallery

November 2018

  • Cerith Wyn Evans during the awards ceremony at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery

    Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans wins Hepworth sculpture prize

    Artist who extended possibilities of sculpture with floating light installations takes home £30,000 prize

October 2018

  • Édouard Vuillard (1868 – 1940) Deux ouvrières dans l’atelier de couture [Two Seamstresses in the Workroom], 1893 Oil on millboard, 13.3 x 19.4cm © National Galleries of Scotland

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Vuillard thanks his mum and Jean Genet meets the Black Panthers – the week in art

  • Visitors-view-work-by-Michael-Dean-in-The-Hepworth-Prize-for-Sculpture-26-October-2018-20-January-2019.-Photo-David-Lindsay

    Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018 – from messy misery to a dash of magic

August 2018

  • Ribera: Art of Violence; Elmgreen and Dragset; V&A Dundee; Pierre Huyghe; Tania Bruguera

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Dreamers and disrupters: the best art and architecture of autumn 2018

    Old and new masters reveal their radical edge, Assemble unveil their Goldsmiths galleries, Fernand Léger seeks utopia, and photography focuses on the facts

July 2018

  • Hepworth Wakefield at dusk large

    Hepworth Wakefield uses £100,000 prize to buy Helen Marten sculpture

    Remainder of the prize money will be used to turn a nearby patch of land into one of the UK’s largest public gardens

March 2018

  • Hepworth Prize for Sculpture: works by Cerith Wyn Evans, Phillip Lai and Magali Reus

    Hepworth sculpture prize shortlist includes Michael Dean and Mona Hatoum

    Phillip Lai, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans round off the nominees for the award for British-based artists, which is in its second year
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