Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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A new start after 60: I went to art school at 66 – and now I’ve sold hundreds of paintings
Carol Douglas wanted to study art as a teenager, but her parents didn’t see the point and she spent decades regretting what might have been. She now has an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Elizabeth Bennett

14, Oct, 2024 @5:55 AM

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Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life; Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud; Bharti Kher: Alchemies – review
A long-awaited retrospective of the Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody exudes humanity; South Africa’s Igshaan Adams is a weaver of dreams; and surrealism meets Asian tradition in the giant goddesses of Bharti Kher

Laura Cumming

14, Jul, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Hepworth, Moore and more: an arty weekend in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
With Europe’s largest sculpture park and galleries showcasing modern and contemporary British art, this former industrial powerhouse has a lot to feast your eyes on

Rachel Dixon

29, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM

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Toppled, eaten, pooed on, licked, rusted and stolen: life’s tough for the treasures of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safe

Andrew Dickson

24, Aug, 2023 @11:15 AM

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Lindsey Mendick: Where the Bodies Are Buried; Leonardo Drew – review
Anxiety – and growing up with British TV – inspire Mendick’s huge multimedia show, while the cycle of life explodes from grit and dust in Drew’s fine chapel installation

Laura Cumming

16, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM

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The best art and design shows to visit in 2023
Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones and Oliver Wainwright

27, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

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A Green and Pleasant Land (HA-HA) review – laughing across social divides
Lakwena Maciver’s subversive exhibition asks us to actively chuckle at her bold displays of protest and revolution

Hannah Clugston

15, Nov, 2022 @3:39 PM

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Robert Indiana: Sculptures 1958-2018 review – Love redeemed
The late American artist is revealed as a much more complicated, poetic figure in this first major UK show dedicated to his work

Laura Cumming

13, Mar, 2022 @1:00 PM

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Hepworth’s soothing sounds transport you – Yorkshire Sculpture International review
An alternative audio tour of Barbara Hepworth’s works is pure poetry, while digital ghosts from slave voyages haunt us. But is there enough sculpture?

Hannah Clugston

21, Sep, 2021 @11:05 AM

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‘A kick in the balls to the male art scene’: Breaking the Mould review
The squidgy folds and gelatinous wobbles of work by Rachel Whiteread, Holly Hendry and others are hard to keep your hands off – and tell us much about overcoming sexist attitudes in art

Hannah Clugston

27, May, 2021 @1:39 PM

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Charles Gaines: Multiples of Nature, Trees and Faces; Hardeep Sahota: Bhangra Lexicon – review
Hauser & Wirth, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; both online
Photographs of trees obscured by painstaking mathematical sequences somehow add up in Gaines’s gorgeous abstractions

Laura Cumming

07, Feb, 2021 @9:00 AM

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John Sully obituary
Other lives: Accountancy teacher and Labour county councillor who helped to create the West Yorkshire Playhouse

Anthea Sully

21, Jun, 2020 @10:56 AM

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