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Sun 30 May 2021 08.30 EDT In the mid-1950s, Barbara Hepworth returned to bronze after a break of 30 years. Casting in metal not only meant that several editions of the same work could be made and sold; it was more durable than her carvings, and thus better suited, as she put it, to the “travelling circus” of the contemporary art world. But the change brought with it a shift in style, too: a salty new freedom. The first of these bronzes, Curved Form (Trevalgan) (1956), the idea for which Hepworth conceived while gazing at the Atlantic from a hill between St Ives and Zennor, has a se...

A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm

These David Hockney drawings of life starting afresh are an uplifting antidote to the past year The 83-year-old artist's new exhibition, created during lockdown, offers hope to an injured world about 6 hours ago Jonathan Jones David Hockney: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy.’ Photograph: Nathanael Turner/New York Times   “I think it looks terrific,” says David Hockney. “It’s all on one theme, isn’t it? And there’s not many exhibitions like t...

Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea have signed up to much-maligned £4.3bn project A dozen European football clubs have agreed to join a midweek Super League with plans to start in August  Competition would have no relegation, damaging Champions League and mortally wound domestic leagues  Clubs will cream off billions in new TV money and advertising with critics saying they are pursuing NFL model  Boris Johnson has condemned the European Super League as 'damaging' as Tories draw up 'robust' fight back The PM admitted clubs could be compelled to pay back state-backed ...

Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea have signed up to much-maligned £4.3bn project A dozen European football clubs have agreed to join a midweek Super League with plans to start in August  Competition would have no relegation, damaging Champions League and mortally wound domestic leagues  Clubs will cream off billions in new TV money and advertising with critics saying they are pursuing NFL model  Boris Johnson has condemned the European Super League as 'damaging' as Tories draw up 'robust' fight back The PM admitted clubs could be compelled to pay back state-backed ...