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Lily Brown writes on The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

There has never been a major Australian survey of Barbara Hepworth’s work. Until now, that is.

In her first Australian retrospective, the woman who helped to redefine sculpture emerges from the shadow of Henry Moore.

The Mail on Sunday's Jo Tweedy had a swell time visiting St Ives out of season. But make no mistake, she says, you still have to queue for your post-surf cuppa.

Some achieve distinction in one or possibly two branches of the world of art, but few, if any, are outstanding in all of them. Alan Bowness – art historian, curator and museum director, critic and journalist, and a collector himself – was just such a man, for all his personal modesty and quiet public profile. What drove him was his love for, and thirst for knowledge of, 19th- and 20th-century art – painting and sculpture especially. This allowed him to become one of the most effective proselytisers for contemporary art, which in Alan’s heyday was very much a minority, and some would s...