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A child looking at Barbara Hepworth's 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 excuses – the bus trip to Skipton would take a day – but hoped that, when he was home in Bradfor...

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 which does not owe its origin to the reception of some forcibly dispersed race or class”. The 1,4...