York Art Gallery’s nationally important collection of works by Italian Old Masters will be the subject of new research to be carried out this year by Eloise Donnelly, a curatorial trainee who joins the Gallery as part of the National Gallery’s Curatorial Traineeship programme  supported by the Art Fund. The collection of 56 Italian …

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Aesthetica is inviting the people of Yorkshire to cast their vote for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award this spring. Following on from the initial success of the exhibition, Aesthetica is giving local people the opportunity to choose their winner. Additionally, voters are entered into the Free Prize Draw with a chance of …

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German artist Sybille Neumeyer was announced as the winner of the Main Prize for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 at the exhibition preview on 3 April. Her stunning light installation Song for the Last Queen (2013) is comprised of 7,614 bees – one eighth of the colony – that were collected from a naturally collapsed bee hive and placed as a …

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York Museums Trust has produced a document about the great achievements and exciting developments that have taken place in the past two years. Over the last two years, York Museums Trust, an independent charitable organisation, has excelled in many ways and in many areas. Major funding and increased income generation has allowed the Trust to …

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