28 June 2016 The Art Fund have released a photograph by the well-known British portrait and fashion photography Rankin of some of the York Art Gallery team behind its £8 million development. The gallery will find out on July 6 if it is the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year and the £100,000 prize at a ceremony …
27 June 2016 The first artwork to be created especially for York Art Gallery’s new Artists Garden will be revealed this August. Foundation Myths is a new commission by Ordinary Architecture, an art, architecture and design practice with an international profile. The installation, produced especially for the Artists Garden, draws on the rich history of the …
21 June 2016 A painting by a renowned artist depicting Yorkshire soldiers on the front line at the Somme will go on show for the first time later this month to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle. On Friday 24th June, York Castle Museum will open a special exhibition about the battle, focusing on Arthur Radclyffe …
13 June 2016 York residents can visit York’s Attraction of the Year, two major new exhibitions and the new Jorvik experience in York St Mary’s for free later this month as part of York Museums Trust’s new Open Weekend. York Art Gallery, York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum are all free to residents …
27 May 2016 York Art Gallery has been named Visitor Attraction of the Year (Over 50,000 visitors) at the Visit York Tourism Awards. The gallery, which reopened in August last year after an £8 million development, picked up the award at the annual ceremony last night, 26 May 2016. It is the latest award the gallery has won, following three awards …
23 May 2016 The Burton Gallery at York Art Gallery will be temporarily closed until Sunday 29 May 2016 while our curators work on an exciting new rehang of some of the gallery’s most famous Old Masters. On display will be Italian Old Master paintings with a religious focus, portraiture and ‘vedute’ (views) and Dutch and Flemish Old …
7 May 2016 Following a city-wide power cut yesterday (6 May 2016), the Yorkshire Museum, York Castle Museum and York Art Gallery are open today as normal. Please note however that the card readers are currently unavailable at York Castle Museum, and we are therefore only able to take cash payments. We apologise for this inconvenience and hope to …
6 May 2016 Due to a city-wide power cut we have had to close York Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Museum from 3pm today, 6 May 2016. York Castle Museum will remain open. All sites will be open as normal tomorrow. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
29 April 2016 Following an £8 million transformation, York Art Gallery has been shortlisted for the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 award. The shortlist of the five museums competing for the award of the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2016 are (in alphabetical order): Arnolfini, Bristol, South West Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, …
22 April 2016 The £8 million development of York Art Gallery picked up three awards at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) on Thursday evening (21 April 2016). The project, by Ushida Findlay and Simpson & Brown architects and SIMPSON construction, won the RIBA Yorkshire Award 2016 and the RIBA Yorkshire Conservation Award 2016 as well as the RIBA Yorkshire Project …
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