Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts 

Challenging the conventional hierarchies of the fine and decorative arts, this exhibition brings together a selection of extraordinary objects from opposite sides of the Atlantic. Drawing upon the rich collections of Temple Newsam House in West Yorkshire and the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, Taking Shape focuses on the inventive imagination of Baroque and Rococo that dominated sculpture and the decorative arts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and presents it in a new light. The exhibition has been co-organised by the Henry Moore Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum and will tour to the Getty in 2009.