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    • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
      FT SeriesThe HTSI summer 2022 travel special
      The magic of Stonehenge

      It captivated Henry Moore and is now the subject of a major exhibition. What is it about the stone circle that we still find so alluring?

      Stonehenge in Wiltshire
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Fashion
      What artists can teach us about personal style

      From Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman, artists have long brought freedom to their wardrobes

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      HTSI
      Six unmissable spring art shows

      Destination exhibitions for the UK’s great gallery reopening

      Me, Em and Nat, 2020, by Chantal Joffe
    • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
      Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
      The women redefining sculpture

      Yorkshire Sculpture Park shows how female sculptors from Barbara Hepworth to Phyllida Barlow have been breaking the mould

    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2017
      UK tax
      Tax-efficient gift schemes saves record number of treasures for UK

      A Renaissance foot and Brunel’s cigar case are among artworks and historical items protected

      Renaissance Terracotta Foot Photo © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The market for monumental art: who’s buying?

      Art Basel’s Unlimited sector displays work too large for most fairs. But who collects it?

      Tony Oursler’s 'template/variant/friend/stranger' (2014)
    • Friday, 15 April, 2016
      Special Report
      North of England’s cultural mix under pressure from cuts

      Austerity is biting in the region’s richly varied arts scene

      A gallery assistant studies an artwork by Damien Hirst entitled 'Relationships', an exhibit featuring in the 'At Home' exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield in northern England on March 17, 2016. The 'At Home' exhibition which features over 40 artworks is curated from the Arts Council Collection and runs until July 3, 2016. / AFP / OLI SCARFF / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Tuesday, 9 February, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Out There: Our Post-War Public Art, Somerset House, London

      A new show documents England’s postwar boom in public sculpture

      Detail of reliefs and mosaics by William Mitchell, Harlow, Essex (1963)
    • Friday, 22 January, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Women in the frame: the Saatchi gallery’s all-female art show

      Exhibitions held together purely by gender may be inadequate, even distasteful — but are they still a necessary evil?

      Alice Anderson, Bound, 2011, Champagne Life at Saatchi Gallery
    • Friday, 11 September, 2015
      Charlie PorterCharlie Porter
      The art of dressing

      The clothing artists wear says much about them. And it can also provoke envy. Where the hell, asks Charlie Porter, did they get that smock?

      Barbara Hepworth in 1957
    • Tuesday, 1 September, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Chatsworth holds its biggest sculpture exhibition

      Sotheby’s brings monumental works to rural Derbyshire, with price tags of up to $5m

      Stately pile: a freerunner leaps off Barbara Hepworth's 'Three Obliques (Walk In)' at Chatsworth
    • Friday, 3 July, 2015
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions, including ‘Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon’

      Also Barbara Hepworth and Titian at Apsley House

    • Friday, 26 June, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Barbara Hepworth: forms and hollows

      Her autobiographical, landscape-rooted sculpture took on a political resonance as abstraction became the postwar aesthetic of freedom

      ‘Pendour’, 1947
    • Friday, 19 June, 2015
      FT Magazine
      Barbara Hepworth and photography

      How the sculptor used photography to document her life and control the way the world saw her work

      Barbara Hepworth
    • Friday, 12 June, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Cross-collecting in Chelsea

      Masterpiece returns for its sixth edition with 150-plus international exhibitors

    • Friday, 24 April, 2015
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions, including Sonia Delaunay and Thomas Struth

      Also Barbara Hepworth and Gianni Piacentino

      A piece by Sonia Delaunay
    • Monday, 19 January, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Tate shows Hepworths unseen since 1960s

      Retrospective aided by internet searches casts British abstract sculptor’s methods in new light

      Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) (6) 1943
    • Friday, 31 October, 2014
      Life & Arts
      The Shape of Things, Daniel Katz Gallery, London

      Exceptional works lift a familiar art-historical story to something potent and illuminating

      'Chimera’ (1932) by Jacob Epstein
    • Wednesday, 9 July, 2014
      Visual Arts
      Yorkshire’s open air gallery wins museum prize

      Yorkshire Sculpture Park secures UK’s biggest arts prize

      Antony Gormley's Flat Tree, 1978, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
    • Friday, 4 July, 2014
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions including Kenneth Clark

      The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, Barbara Hepworth, Jan van Huysum, Russian-Avant-Garde Photography, Kenneth Clark and Natural History

      Vsitors look at designs during the press preview for 'The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk' exhibition, showcasing the work of French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier at the Barbican Centre in central London on April 8 2014. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT
    • Friday, 2 May, 2014
      Life & Arts
      ‘Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art’ at Perry Green
      ‘Two Piece Reclining Figure: Cut’ by Henry Moore
    • Tuesday, 25 March, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Art First, London – review

      This marvellous show confirms that the Scottish painter produced her best work in her final decade

      Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Travel, Memory, 2001
    • Wednesday, 31 October, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

      Hepworth’s drawings of surgeons and operating theatres , now at Hepworth Wakefield, occupy an outstanding place in her oeuvre

      Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Prelude II’ (1948)
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2012
      InterviewLife & Arts
      Simon Fujiwara at St Ives

      Jackie Wullschlager meets an artist whose work straddles the borderland between autobiography and self-invention

    • Friday, 30 December, 2011
      European companies
      Rail industry steps up battle against metal theft
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