Barbara Hepworth

The newest piece is a late Barbara Hepworth sculpture from 1973 called Meditation which will go to Aberdeen Art Gallery, while the oldest by some distance is a piece of iron age metalwork – a large and beautifully preserved firedog from about 50BC-50AD which has been at the National Museum of Wales since the 1930s.

Acceptance in Lieu scheme brings a dozen new gifts to the nation 2011

This year the Hepworth, a new gallery that pays homage to British 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth, opened to acclaim in Wakefield, while exhibitions celebrated British modernists from Edward Burra to Graham Sutherland.

How Britain got its patriotism back | Jonathan Jones 2011

A sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, noted Wakefield Trinity fan if you believe the BBC, yesterday.

Jonathan Davies and Paul Cullen master fine art of surrealist analysis | Martin Kelner 2011

The new patriotism … From Alexander McQueen to Heston Blumenthal, from David Starkey to Barbara Hepworth, our pride in the ‘best of British’ is stronger than ever.

How Britain got its patriotism back | Jonathan Jones 2011

Her key point was that Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield and Henry Moore in Castleford, which meant: "Today, live on the BBC, the birthplaces of those two great sculptors go head to head in the fifth round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup."

Jonathan Davies and Paul Cullen master fine art of surrealist analysis | Martin Kelner 2011

Its highlights include 40 sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, who was born in the city, and works by her contemporaries including Mondrian, Giacometti and Ben Nicholson.

David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview 2011

It sounds like the set-up line for a particularly highbrow joke: so Piet Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and Barbara Hepworth all walked into a cinema … The punchline is startling: to see one of the Disney cartoons they all adored.

Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works 2011

The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists.

Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works 2011

Works include curviliscious modernist abstractions by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro's heavy metal assemblages and Damien Hirst's vitrine enshrining a barbecue picnic.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

It's a coup for the old West Riding capital, which is grooming the late Barbara Hepworth's legacy to create a Mrs Wakefield when the £23 million Hepworth gallery opens in May.

John Godber swaps Hull for Wakefield 2011