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A child looking at Barbara Hepworths sculpture Family of Man in Wakefield Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield “I don’t know if you remember me,” an art student wrote to Helen Kapp, director of Wakefield Art Gallery, in 1960. “You once purchased a pot cat off me.” Kapp was the doyenne of the Yorkshire art scene at the time, known for acquiring young artists’ work for the Wakefield collection.  This student enclosed a catalogue for his solo exhibition at Skipton Castle. Kapp sent her e...

From the NS archive: Intellectuals in exile 18 February 1939: What the leaders of the Nazi movement cannot tolerate is intellectual independence. By Herbert Read In this article, published six years after Hitler gained power in Germany, and seven months before the start of the Second World War, the notable art historian, philosopher and literary critic Herbert Read argued that there is, “in the whole history of culture, no significant renaissance or spontaneous outburst of art or learning...