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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Barbara hepworth - The Untold Story

From The Drama to Malcolm in the Middle: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

R-Patz and Zandaya star in a romcom with bite, and the lovably dysfunctional family is back in a revival of the turn-of-the-millennium comedy hit

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‘If Walls Could Talk, the Level of Chatter Would Be Cacophonous’ – See Inside an Old Artist’s Retreat Whose Radical Renovation Still Honors Its Impressive Legacy

A house that entertained luminaries from the St Ives School in the early and mid 1900s has been brought into the 21st century beautifully

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From Prue Leith to Romeo Beckham and Lucy Bronze, London fashion week is hard to beat

Through line of current London scene is female creativity and leadership – and weekend’s headliners were all women

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The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

Start with Andy Goldsworthy’s earthy installations at the Royal Scottish Academy, then head outdoors to discover more of his work, alongside pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Charles Jencks

The Guardian - UK

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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Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour saved for nation

Created in 1943, abstract wooden carving marked a breakthrough in ‘genius’ British artist’s career

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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

Charity hopes to raise nearly £3m to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in UK

New owner wants to take Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, created in Cornwall in second world war, overseas

The Guardian - UK

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.

Evening Standard

Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Hepworth sculptures exhibited in public for first time

A new show focusing on the artist’s fascination with string includes works unseen beyond private collections

The Guardian - UK

Major show to celebrate UK’s forgotten female trailblazer of abstract art

Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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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‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism

The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul

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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah celebrates the craft and chaos of mother artists

In her new book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, art critic Hettie Judah shows that motherhood has played a significant role in the history of art. Not only in the ways that both motherhood and mothering have been depicted, but also in the way that artists who are…

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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

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‘Only to love art’: The gallery that Miro, Giacometti and Braque thought of as a second home

Amy Fleming visits the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, which is celebrating its 60th birthday with a new extension and an exhibition that recalls the closeness of Bonnard and Matisse to its founders

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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