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Release date: 1 February 2019
Henry Moore Grants introduces annual Exceptional Award
Rewarding the most inspiring sculptural projects each year, the inaugural Exceptional Award recognises two outstanding sculptural projects which were originated by institutions in the UK and the US, giving them additional funds to support more ground breaking work.
Release date: 11 December 2018
Renee So: Bellarmines and Bootlegs
8 March – 2 June 2019
Drawing upon international histories of sculpture, Renee So's playful, cartoon-like and typically drunken characters populate the Henry Moore Institute's main galleries in spring 2019.
Release date: 6 December 2018
Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing
3 April – 27 October 2019
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens hosts the largest exhibition devoted to Henry Moore's drawings in 40 years.
Presenting a long-overdue career survey with exclusive focus on drawing, The Art of Seeing includes over 150 works from the collections of the Henry Moore Foundation, Tate, the British Museum and other public and private collections.
Release date: 5 October 2018
Henry Moore Foundation: 2019 Exhibition Programme
The Foundation's 2019 exhibition programme, including new exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens and the Wallace Collection.
Release date: 19 September 2018
First details of Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 programme announced
22 June – 29 September 2019
Yorkshire Sculpture International today announces the first details of its inaugural programme. The UK's largest sculpture festival will take place across Leeds and Wakefield from 22 June until 29 September 2019, and will present sculpture by artists from across the world.
A celebration of sculpture in all its forms, YSI is presented by four world-renowned cultural institutions - the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Release date: 12 September 2018
Lucia Nogueira
5 Oct 2018 – 20 Jan 2019
Over the course of her short career the Brazilian-born, London-based artist Lucia Nogueira (1950-98) was recognised as an intelligent and instinctive maker of meaning through objects; a reputation that has only grown since her death.
This exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute presents rarely-seen sculptures and works on paper from the Leeds Sculpture Collections alongside a number of loans.
Release date: 26 August 2018
Fake or Fortune: A Henry Moore in the Gurlitt Hoard
In the latest episode of the BBC's Fake or Fortune the team investigated a small watercolour sketch, from Germany, that was thought to be a Henry Moore work.
Release date: 29 June 2018
Senga Nengudi
21 Sep 2018 – 17 Feb 2019
The Henry Moore Institute presents the first solo institutional exhibition of work by Senga Nengudi outside the United States.
Release date: 28 June 2018
Yorkshire Sculpture International: the UK's largest event to celebrate sculpture
The first Yorkshire Sculpture International will take place from Saturday 22 June to Sunday 29 September 2019.
Release date: 21 May 2018
A Frieze for Leeds: Imagining a Sculptural Façade for Leeds Art Gallery in 1968
13 June – 2 September 2018
In 1968 the exhibition Three Ideas for Sculpture proposed a new sculpture for the exterior of Leeds Art Gallery, intended to revive the then eighty-year-old Victorian building. Artists Neville Boden (1929-96), Hubert Dalwood (1924-76) and Austin Wright (1922-2003) were selected to propose a frieze to be installed across the 40-metre façade and Arts Council England provided funding for the production of drawings and models.
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