please empty your brain below
Unless you are only there for a day trip dg, how are you going to resist the NRM?

Max Roberts | Homepage | 02.06.11 - 10:58 a.m. | #

"curved geometric lumps with holes in"? Really? DG, with your way with words I expected better :)

what about all the decidedly non curved lumps with holes?!

Hepworth is my favourite sculpturer and I love her garden in St Ives. If I find my self anywhere near Wakefield, I will be going to The Hepworth though.

Rachel | Homepage | 02.06.11 - 11:07 a.m. | #

Great minds clearly think alike. I was there on Saturday (having had to have been elsewhere in Yorkshire the previous day), and (for all that I am not a major fan of Hepworth or Moore, let alone Ben Nicholson, whos status among the canon of English artists has long remained a mystery to me..) was kind of impressed, both with the museum's exhibits (yes, as you say, Rothchild's stuff much less so) and the general setting (Wakefield itself, not so much, Chantry Bridge and chapel or not. And the less said about the condition of the nearest railway station to the museum- a decaying wreck, in fact - the better).

Impressed too, at how busy the place was, but put this down, rightly or wrongly, to it being only the 2nd weekend open.

Dominic | 02.06.11 - 1:00 p.m. | #

So, let's see. Yesterday you went to Wakefield. The day before you went to Slough. On Sunday you walked along the Croxley Green railway line. The previous Thursday you walked 4.5 miles of Capital Ring. And then before that you went to Burnham-on-Crouch.

Rather puts my half-term spent sitting at my computer in perspective...

swirlythingy | Homepage | 02.06.11 - 1:40 p.m. | #

I went there last year, before the Hepworth opened, although its building was there. I agree with Dominic about Kirkgate station, which seems virtually derelict. Luckily, most trains (including those from London) seem to stop at Westgate, which is less of a mess. The Chantry was pretty, only spoiled by all the rubbish in the river, and the pubs and Victorian architecture were good. Friday and Saturday nights seem to be, ahem, lively, with the local constabulary in close attendance. Not the worst place I've been, but probably not worth a trip in itself, Hepworth or no...

Baldassaro | 02.06.11 - 5:35 p.m. | #

Even though I live a mere 20 minutes bus ride away from the Nottingham Contemporary what happened - DG - to the New Art Gallery Walsall? (http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/)

Pete L | 03.06.11 - 10:44 p.m. | #

As a Wakefield-expat living in West Australia my chances to see The Hepworth have been pretty limited. It's great to see the city getting some positive attention though - and a welcome antidote to the "Northern-blight-once-proud-city-in-decline" schtick. Good to see they have found something to do with that bit of riverfront too. Other than throw shopping trolleys into the Calder.

And this "Londoners may need to click here to remind themselves where Wakefield is. Please feel a frisson of parochial shame as you do so." may be the single greatest thing ever written.

Gareth | Homepage | 12.06.11 - 2:54 a.m. | #











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