WAKEFIELD, UK – From April 2011 Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents the first major UK exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Jaume Plensa, with new and recent work displayed in the Underground Gallery and surrounding landscape. The exhibition…
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Opens Jaume Plensa’s First Major UK Exhibition of Sculpture
WAKEFIELD.- From April 2011 Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the first major UK exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Jaume Plensa, with new and recent work displayed in the Underground Gallery and surrounding landscape. The exhibition encourages a …
Giant Sea Monster Returns to Yorkshire Museum
YORK.- One of the biggest sea monsters ever found in Britain is going back on display as a complete fossil for the first time in decades. The giant ichthyosaur would have been about eight metres long and swam in the tropical waters which covered North…
First Major Show Outside of London in Ten Years by Anish Kapoor Opens in Manchester
MANCHESTER.- Internationally renowned, Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor creates sensual and beguiling sculptures from pigment, stone, polished stainless steel and wax. This brand new exhibition features two important early works by the artist f…
David Hockney’s Bigger Trees Near Warter Shown Outside of London for the First Time
LONDON.- The largest painting David Hockney has ever created is shown in the York Art Gallery through June 12 2011 , for the first time outside London. Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photograpique 2007, mea…
Major New Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Designed by David Chipperfield to Open on May 21
LONDON.- The Hepworth Wakefield designed by David Chipperfield Architects, will open to the public on Saturday 21 May 2011, putting the spotlight on Yorkshire as a world centre for sculpture, together with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore Institu…
Major New Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Designed by David Chipperfield Architects to Open on May 21
LONDON.- The Hepworth Wakefield designed by David Chipperfield Architects, will open to the public on Saturday 21 May 2011, putting the spotlight on Yorkshire as a world centre for sculpture, together with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore Institu…
Art Fund and National Trust Campaign to Save Brueghel Reaches £2.7 Million Target
LONDON.- The Art Fund, the National Trust and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) announce that Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s ‘The Procession to Calvary’ has been saved for the nation after an intensive three month fundraising campaig…
Art Fund and National Trust Campaign to Save Brueghel Reaches £2.7 Million Target
LONDON.- The Art Fund, the National Trust and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) announce that Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s ‘The Procession to Calvary’ has been saved for the nation after an intensive three month fundraising campaig…
Donations to Save an Iconic Old Master Painting by Pieter Brueghel Approach £1.4 Million
LONDON.- Donations to the appeal by the Art Fund and the National Trust to save an iconic Old Master painting for the nation are approaching £1.4 million. The appeal still has some way to go, however, to reach its £2.7 million target by Christmas and…