The Hepworth Wakefield is an art gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery, is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from ...

A year ago, Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red was sold at Christie’s to an anonymous overseas bidder. Now, after a significant public campaign, it will remain in ...

The artists Anish Kapoor, Veronica Ryan and Rachel Whiteread have backed a campaign to keep an important work by Barbara Hepworth in the UK. The Art Fund charity and the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in ...

Barbara Hepworth c1920 As a surveyor Herbert Hepworth was responsible for the roads and bridges of West Riding. From when Barbara was five or six he would take her with him as he drove across the ...

Now the Hepworth Wakefield and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park have collaborated with the Leeds Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute next door to launch a sculpture festival. Yorkshire 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. The UK has raised £3.8 million (approx. €4.4 million) to ...

Comedian Jenny Eclair and sculptor Sir Antony Gormley are among the backers of a £3.8 million fundraiser to save a Dame Barbara Hepworth artwork “for the nation”. Did you know with a Digital ...

Dame Barbara Hepworth, the English abstract sculptor, is honored in today's Google Doodle, on the anniversary of the day she arrived in St. Ives and established her studio. In the Doodle, Hepworth can ...

The first exhibition about an artist with an unconventional background is being staged in West Yorkshire this summer. Steve Teale reports Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, ...