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Turner prize 2026 shortlist points to sculpture as a way of thinking about power, ecology and belief

The shortlist for the Turner prize 2026 brings together four artists whose practices are firmly rooted in sculpture and installation. Their work, in diverse ways, tests how material form can carry political, ecological and symbolic meaning.

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Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane

The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show

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It’s staying home: UK raises £3.8 million to keep rare Barbara Hepworth sculpture

The UK government had issued an export bar on the sculpture after it was sold at an auction in March 2024, citing its cultural significance.

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Rare Barbara Hepworth work to be displayed in public for first time

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‘Extremely rare’ Barbara Hepworth sculpture to go on public display after successful £3.8m fundraiser

The rare wooden carving will be placed on permanent public display for the first time in history

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‘Extremely rare’ Barbara Hepworth sculpture to be saved after £3.8m is raised

Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red will go on permanent display at The Hepworth Wakefield.

Evening Standard

Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

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Gods arrive from India, myths grow Tinguely and meat gets sensual – the week in art

A blockbuster show of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art, a revolutionary marriage and Helen Chadwick inside a washing machine – all in your weekly dispatch

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Interns, vampires and a nice piece of Bacon – what to see and do this week

What else is January for but hunkering down with a good book or film, spinning out the time till payday? If your Christmas spending has just about left you with the price of a cinema ticket, there’s plenty on offer to enjoy this week.

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Forbidden Territories at The Hepworth Wakefield: a bold celebration of surrealism’s 100th birthday

Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes, a new exhibition showing at The Hepworth Wakefield, is a bold and engaging exploration of the important, if unwieldy, body of work that comes under the category of surrealism.

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Louise Giovanelli pulls back the curtain on spectacle and suspense at The Hepworth Wakefield

'Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents' is at The Hepworth Wakefield from 23 November 2024 - 27 April 2025

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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

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Museums Without Men: audio guides to celebrate dozens of female artists

Project to run during Women’s History Month at institutions including Tate Britain and Met in New York

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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

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Step into Andrew Cranston’s magical take on mundanity at The Hepworth Wakefield

As ‘Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?’ opens at The Hepworth Wakefield, the artist tells us about seeing the extraordinary in the everyday

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How Yorkshire influenced the sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore

When Barbara Hepworth died in 1975, fellow sculptor Henry Moore wrote an obituary in The Sunday Times with the headline, The Shaping of a Sculptor. Not only did it prominently feature their shared birthplace of Yorkshire, but the paper’s clever headline echoed the ways their respective artistic identities had been…

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David Chipperfield: how the 2023 Pritzker prize winner creates buildings that last

The British architect David Chipperfield has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, arguably the highest international honour in the discipline. In its citation, the jury highlighted the elegance, restraint and permanence that have consistently characterised Chipperfield’s oeuvre, “an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence”.

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