‘Taking ownership’ of the art gallery: 2013
A reminder of an open day in 2013 when the public ‘took ownership’ of the art gallery for a day.
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Gallery and museums: entrance fees for residents
On the YMT and CYC proposals, recently confirmed, to charge residents an entry fee to the art gallery and museums.
More …Muddy markings, King’s Manor
On outbuildings under the trees behind King’s Manor, names, dates and handprints imprinted in what looks like panels made from mud.
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York Minster transformed: Illuminating York 2013
Visiting the familiar interior of York Minster, seeing it in an unfamiliar light, via Illuminating York. Modern art in an ancient place. The nave, emptied of chairs, filled with art, by Black Rose urban art collective.
More …Graffiti, and art
The York Press reported yesterday that a wall of the old St Leonard’s Hospital building, between the Museum Gardens and Library Square, has been covered with graffiti, in the form of angry scribblings and daubings. I can’t understand why someone would want deface lovely old limestone of great historical significance.
… More …Foss Islands cycle track, graffiti
2011
Graffiti is common on this route, under the bridges and here on the bridge over Huntington Road.
Here’s a tasteful, carefully centred, apparently stencilled image of a person on a bike. Many people object to graffiti, but I … More …
Graffiti, revisited, 2011 – 3
February 2011
Even in the days of spray-paint and marker pens, traditional graffiti persists. This example was noted in November 2011 in Dean’s Park, by the Minster, defacing the handsome stone bench. These children – vandals eh?
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