Yorkshire Sculpture Park is ace. I used to live in the north of Sheffield, so have been going for years – it’s an hour up the motorway now, but close enough for a day out.

I particularly wanted to see the Jaume Plensa exhibition:

Plensa’s sculpture gives physical form to the intangible, using the body as a way of exploring what it means to be human and engaging with universal themes: love, memory, language and despair. Yorkshire Sculpture Park website.

His forms are fascinating and it was possible to walk inside, touch and interact with many of the pieces.

Below is 29 Palms, a curtain of metal letters hanging in the hall of the underground gallery. As people walk up and down, the air movement sets off the chimes.

Here’s what it sounds like. The noise in the background about halfway through is from other visitors hitting the gongs in Plensa’s Jerusalem:

I also paid another visit to Elisabeth Frink’s work, which is good-creepy. Just stand close to one of these with your back turned and you’ll see what I mean!

The more I look at this, the more it looks like Nottingham being destroyed by a multi-megaton nuclear device. It’s like the video of that Czar Bomba nuke that was as powerful as all the explosives used in WWII combined. Or a pretty atoll being irradiated by the French. Except with ducks in the foreground rather than frigates.

Love this – tone, composition and light are all perfect. More at www.ashleyoostdyck.com/blog.

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is fantastic. It reminds me a lot of the equally brilliant Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe – both are a seemingly random collection of objects with artistic and anthropological value from around the world, grouped in loose categories. It’d be possible to spend weeks in there, wandering around and looking at the smoking implements, surgical tools, boats, toys, shields and… human skulls: