Thursday 30 July 2015, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm York Museums Trust invites you to a one off opportunity to be amongst the first to explore York Art Gallery following it’s £8 million transformation. Ticket price £20 to include a complimentary glass of Prosecco and nibbles and the evening will feature live music. There will also be a cash bar available. …
York Museums Trust is inviting tenders for the development and delivery of a brand-new exhibition the Shaping the Body exhibition. This exciting new project will bring together costume, art and archaeology from the collections across York Museums Trust to reveal the many factors that have an impact on body shape across the centuries; from economic …
York Museums Trust is a proud participant in I Love Museums, a new campaign led by the National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) to demonstrate the depth of support for UK museums by empowering you, the public, to share why museums are important to you. Museums and galleries are more popular than ever – each year there …
York Museums Trust has appointed the former Head of Heritage Lottery Fund West Midlands as its new Chief Executive, starting in November this year. Reyahn King, 50, has also worked as the Director of Art Galleries at National Museums Liverpool, and Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. She will follow Dr …
23 – 31 May 2015 Come along to this May half term see the brand new exhibition at York Castle Museum marking 200 years since the the Battle of Waterloo whilst at the Yorkshire Museum find out about William Smith, the founder of Geology and take part in some great map making and orienteering activities. Activities are included in museum …
New commissions, Old Masters and more than 2,000 ceramic works now feature in York Art Gallery’s new displays of designated collections following the reopening on Yorkshire Day, August 1 2015. The gallery’s collection of Italian Old Masters is displayed alongside substantial new research in The Madsen Gallery (previously called the Main Gallery). This is complimented by …
John Keane was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 at the exhibition preview yesterday evening. Keane rose to national prominence in 1991 when he was appointed as the official British war artist during the Gulf War, and has continued to investigate the most pressing political questions of our time …
Aesthetica and York Museums Trust present the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, running from 26 March to 31 May at York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space. Now in its eighth year, the Prize is an internationally acclaimed award that recognises excellence in contemporary art from around the world awarding £5,000 to the winner, courtesy …
Hundreds of ceramic tiles inspired by the unique paving on York’s streets will be used on the new first floor extension of York Art Gallery. More than 300 double hexagon shaped tiles are to be fitted to the exterior of what will become part of the Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) when the gallery reopens …
Ten thousand ceramic bowls will be piled high to create a spectacular installation of pots inside York Art Gallery for its reopening this summer. The work by internationally renowned artist Clare Twomey, will see 10,000 handmade slipcast ceramic bowls, identical in form and colour, be placed on scaffolds in the new first floor mezzanine gallery which …
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