October 30 2018 Reserve your place to experience the award-winning magic of a Victorian Christmas this festive season at York Castle Museum, with online tickets on sale from Saturday 27 October. Visitors are invited to the Victorian Christmas Experience (17 Nov – 31 Dec) to take a stroll along the cobbles of our twinkling Victorian street; Kirkgate. Meet our Victorian residents …
23 October 2018 The sound of a 40 part choir singing in harmony through 40 individual speakers is one of the major works which will feature in an upcoming exhibition at York Art Gallery this winter, co-curated by the band Kaiser Chiefs. Janet Cardiff’s evocative “The Forty Part Motet” allows people to walk through an oval of speakers …
23 October 2018 Our relationship with the environment and questions about mental health will be explored through the watercolours and drawings of two of the most celebrated artists of the 19th Century, in a major new exhibition at York Art Gallery in March 2019. To celebrate Ruskin’s 200th birthday, Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud: Watercolours and …
A species of creature never recorded in Britain before has been discovered in the heart of York. The tiny leaf miner known as Phytomyza scotina, is normally found in Europe, from Germany to Russia. But during a survey looking for leaf miners in York Museum Gardens, expert Barry Warrington collected a number of unusual samples. …
Exclusive Competition for YMT Card holders! WIN one of four pairs of tickets to the VIP launch of When All is Quiet: Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation with York Art Gallery We’re giving YMT Card holders who pay or agree to renew by Direct Debit the chance to WIN one of four pairs of tickets …
Fall in love with an object of desire, discover the tantalising secrets of a mysterious figure from the past, or give the cold shoulder to those who don’t meet your exceptionally high standards… This September York Castle Museum wants you to come speed dating with our objects – with you choosing which stories we should …
‘When All is Quiet – Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation with York Art Gallery’. December 14 2018– March 10 2019. Kaiser Chiefs explore the boundaries between art and music this winter in a unique and experimental exhibition at York Art Gallery. Using their position as pop musicians as a starting point, Kaiser Chiefs have chosen to rethink sound as a medium, …
The life of pollinating insects will be the theme for an installation for York Mediale, which runs from 27 September to 6 October 2018, and work started this weekend on the first stage of the project: a timber plant pavilion, which will grow, bloom and entice insects to the unique attraction. The Pollinarium is a project by Loop. …
A landmark exhibition featuring art by internationally known artists will open at York Art Gallery this September as part of the first York Mediale. Strata – Rock – Dust – Stars, which showcases ground-breaking moving image, new media and interactive artwork, is inspired by William Smith’s geological map of 1815, which was key in the development of Geology …
The BFG in Pictures is an exhibition from House of Illustration of original Quentin Blake illustrations, prepared for Roald Dahl’s classic story The BFG. The exhibition, curated by Quentin Blake, will contain 40 original artworks, including rarely seen unpublished illustrations of The BFG. These illustrations were included in first designs but then, after consultation with …
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