22 April 1906: Auguste Rodin’s “Le Penseur” is set up in Le Panthéon in Paris, a late honour from the French state to the great sculptor.
22 January 1924: Jacob Epstein’s earlier exhibitions failed with the public because of his Cubist “Venus,” which had diverted attention from the main part of his art. His third exhibition has nothing to attract the simply curious or offend the rigidly-minded.
7 June 1961: Barbara Hepworth’s work has not been received with the critical acclaim it would seem to merit. It is a little ironical that, as with so many British artists of the first rank, her reputation abroad continues to soar at the very moment that her compatriots begin to hear a buzz of hesitation.
19 September 1963: Anthony Caro has done something new in sculpture. He has made each example of his work so self-contained that any conceivable context would interfere with its meaning. His twelve enormous structures can be seen at the Whitechapel gallery in London.
7 May 1992: Tim Hilton hails the Waddington sculpture show and argues that Henri Matisse’s work as a sculptor is underrated.
8 November 2008: Charlotte Higgins interviews Anish Kapoor in his south London studio: “I think we’ve gone totally public sculpture mad. I hate public sculpture... Oh God, even the phrase makes me feel tired.”
23 December 2010: Photograph gallery: A winter’s walk in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Works by artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Nash, Sophie Ryder and Helen Escobedo are scattered around the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield.
25 July 2013: London mayor Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch’s Hahn/Cock, the latest artwork to fill Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth. The project started in 1999.
29 March 2016: Antony Gormley and his engineer John Thornton explain how they made the famous Angel of the North statue near Gateshead.
6 April 2017: Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is awarded a 5* review in the Guardian. The artist has once again found the underwater grotto in his mind where monsters live, making a fool out of all of us who lost faith, says Jonathan Jones.
