Results tagged “Wakefield”

There is a school of thought which demands that public authorities divest themselves of all interests that could be considered peripheral, frivolous or beyond the ken of bureaucrats.

Anything from Christmas lights to Town Hall portraits should go in some kind of Cromwellian austerity drive, paring down council tax to fund just the routine basics.

Tower Hamlets owns a sculpture worth millions, designed by a world-famous artist.
Sadly, you have to trundle more than 200 miles north to see it.

Avant-garde Yorkshire-born sculptor Henry Moore created Draped Seated Woman for the borough in 1957 while working on a commission for the Unesco headquarters in Paris.