{"id":419244,"date":"2026-05-09T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:39:07","slug":"henry-moore-work-to-be-displayed-at-kew-gardens-and-wakehurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419244\/","title":{"rendered":"H\ufeffenry Moore work to be displayed at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Along with sculptures, the exhibition will also feature drawings and prints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March, one of Moore&#8217;s artworks &#8211; King and Queen &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g5xpep9j4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold for \u00a326m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sebastiano Barassi, head of Henry Moore collections and programmes, said: &#8220;Moore&#8217;s deep affinity with the natural world makes Kew and Wakehurst ideal settings for his work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throughout his career, he was inspired by organic forms &#8211; bones, stones, trees, and the rhythms of the landscape &#8211; and he believed that sculpture should exist in harmony with its surroundings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along with sculptures, the exhibition will also feature drawings and prints. In March, one of Moore&#8217;s artworks &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-419244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}