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Ronald Moody working on his sculpture Johanaan, 1963. Photograph: © Val Wilmer

One of the most eagerly awaited shows of the year is Ronald Moody: His Universe at
the Hepworth Wakefield (22 June to 3 November). Works by the Jamaican-born
sculptor are scattered here and there but never shown in their full eloquent force. Small
portrait heads, in wood and bronze, all condensed personality; witty and quixotic
figures in stone, bronze and even the dental plaster with which he started – Moody is a
poet of a sculptor. His art spans the 20th century, from the Caribbean island of his birth
to modernist Paris and London in the 1940s. A contemporary of Henry Moore and
Barbara Hepworth, but with a more figurative and wide-ranging cast of mind. LC

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Be scared by a brace of Bluebeards