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Aesthetica Future Now Symposium

7 Aug 2025

Join one of the UK’s leading arts events, taking place right here in York on 18 September 2025. Enjoy a day of inspiring talks and discussions from top curators, artists and leaders, including a Turner-Prize winner and speakers from the Barbican, Tate, Serpentine and...

Normandy Tour – Monet and Giverny

27 Jul 2025

This four-day coach tour of Normandy has been arranged for the Friends by Travel Editions and includes visits to sites associated with Impressionism and Monet, including Giverny, Rouen and Honfleur. Accommodation will be at the Radison Blu Hotel, Rouen. The tour...

Seminar on ‘Jephthah’ by John Everett Millais

24 Jul 2025

A seminar to be held at the Bedingfield Room, Bar Convent, Blossom Street, on Tuesday 4 November at 10.30am. Over two sessions, 10.30 – 11.15 and 11.45 – 12.30 with a break for coffee and cookie, the speaker, Maddie Hewitson will explore Jephthah, one of...

Curator talk on Medieval Percy Psalter-Hours

7 Jul 2025

Eleanor Jackson, the new Curator of Fine Art at York Art Gallery, acquired an illuminated manuscript for the British Library that was made in York around 1300. She subsequently identified the original owners: Robert and Margery de Percy of Bolton Percy near York. She...

Joint Social and Wine Reception with YPS

2 Jul 2025

These two venerable York Institutions, FYAG (founded 1948) and YPS (founded 1822) now support the York Museums Trust in its crucial cultural role in the City. This is an opportunity for members of both FYAG and YPS to meet and socialise together, hopefully as a first...

‘Balthazar’

21 May 2025

Artwork of the Month May 2025 Circle or Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst c. 1530: Balthazar. Peter Gibbard, formerly Chair of the Friends, writes about Balthazar, also known as The Black African King, who is depicted in a 16th-century panel from a triptych of...

The ‘Picturesque in Britain’

21 May 2025

Our speaker for Artwork of the Month, April 2025, was Peter Miller, President of the Friends. His subject was ‘The Picturesque in Britain’. Two paintings from the Gallery stores were used to illustrate the talk: George Morland (1763-1804), A Gypsy...

Surgeon Waiting by Barbara Hepworth

29 Mar 2025

Artwork of the Month March 2025 Barbara Hepworth, Surgeon Waiting (1948) Dorothy Nott, formerley Chair of the Friends, gave the Artwork of the Month talk for March 2025. Her subject was Surgeon Waiting by Barbara Hepworth. Click...

Stanley Spencer, The Deposition and Rolling Away of the Stone (1956)

23 Feb 2025

Artwork of the Month February 2025 Stanley Spencer, The Deposition and Rolling Away of the Stone (1956) Lauren Marohn, this year’s MA Bursary Holder, has a special interest in modern religious art. Here she writes about one of the Gallery’s most striking images. Click...

Visit to York Art Gallery Stores – afternoon

7 Feb 2025

*** Fully booked *** This is an opportunity to see some of the large collection of paintings held in the Art Gallery’s stores. As the space is small, numbers will be restricted to a maximum of 10 for each...