Doug Fishbone, SOS, 2015, installation at New Art Exchange, photo credit Bartosz Kali.
28 March 2017
Our Art Happens campaign has been a SUCCESS!
Thank you to each and every one of our wonderful donors – with your generosity, we can bring the work of seven incredible internationally acclaimed artists to York city centre this summer.
Bright, bold and …
Doug Fishbone, SOS, 2015, installation at New Art Exchange, photo credit Bartosz Kali.
23 March 2017
Thank you to everyone who has supported our Art Happens fundraising project to bring Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf to York Art Gallery’s Artists Garden this summer. As we’ve made it to 62%, we have decided to extend our deadline …
22 March 2017
ALIVE: Art Between Life and Science features artwork inspired by the ground-breaking medical and scientific research being undertaken at the University of York.
Six artists were commissioned by the University of York’s Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2) to produce the work, which highlights the powerful connection between art and science.
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Doug Fishbone, SOS, 2015, installation at New Art Exchange, photo credit Bartosz Kali.
17 March 2017
Thank you to all our donors who have helped us reach 36%. Through Art Fund a private donor has pledged to match donations pound for pound up to a total of £5,000. With just a week to go this is a fantastic opportunity to …
14 March 2017
Opening in June 2017, just in time for York Pride, a new community exhibition at York Castle Museum will explore 50 years of York’s LGBT history.
The exhibition will tell the story of how LGBT rights in York have grown – from the partial decriminalisation of sex between men in 1967, to the present day – and how …
Doug Fishbone, SOS, 2015, installation at New Art Exchange, photo credit Bartosz Kali.
21 February 2017
York Art Gallery is hoping to strike a hole in one and bring cutting edge contemporary art to the heart of York this summer with Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf.
The work is a fully playable mini golf course with each …
13 February 2017
Raid your cupboards and loot your lofts this half term to rediscover your Viking themed possessions and their stories for a major new exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum.
Viking: Rediscover the Legend, will open in May at the Museum, bringing together the best Viking finds from the Yorkshire Museum and British Museum collections.
As …
13 February 2017
Love – it’s written on the sweets! This half term York Castle Museum is looking at the sweet messages which sent Victorian hearts a fluttering 100 years ago.
“Must we part?” “Can you polka?” “Spare my blushes” – these are just some of the lines used on the original Love Heart Sweets – called Conversational Lozenges.
Some …
7 February 2017
As part of the current exhibition 1914: When the World Changed Forever at York Castle Museum, different groups have been invited to create displays in our Community Room. The latest, Landscapes of Remembrance, opens Saturday 11 February 2017.
The exhibition showcases the results of the Landscapes of Remembrance project, a 2-year undertaking by local volunteers and York …
26 January 2017
The Project Gallery’s exhibition Alive: Art Between Life and Science, will showcase its second display, Listening and Science, from Friday 27th January 2017.
Alive: Art Between Life and Science combines ground-breaking medical and scientific research being undertaken at the University of York to create artwork for display at York Art Gallery.
Mark Fell and …