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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a voluntary placement with the York Medical Society to join the curatorial team in developing the curation of its historic collection of medical instruments, artefacts, art and ephemera, with a view towards becoming an…
The Ferens are offering one History of Art Post-Graduate Student a volunteer opportunityto assist with the curation of their forthcoming exhibition (opening February 2026).One day a week (either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday)From early November to end of JanuaryTasks: The volunteer…
Applications are open for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship. The PhD is offered by the Department of History of Art, University of York in partnership with York Art Gallery (York Museums Trust), researching ‘John Flaxman: Art, Design and the Intermedial Body’. The…
All the second-year undergraduates studying for thee University of York BA in Curating and Art History have now completed, or nearly, their placements with museums and galleries across the Region. This year, because of the pandemic, all the placements have…
Over the summer, two University of York undergraduates engaged (remotely) in social media projects with The Bowes Museum. Adele Carraro and Naomi Lomax are both studying for a BA in History of Art and Curating, and were each offered an internship at the museum following an application process, in…
Throughout the coronavirus lockdown, we have been entertained and amazed, as well as ‘amused’ (see Picture 2, below) by the fruits of History of Art’s very own Professor Michael White’s take on the #tussenkunstenquarantaine challenge. In case you have been so…
We are excited to announce that the Department of History of Art, University of York, has partnered with The Bowes Museum to offer a student internship for the summer of 2020, to work on a project centred on the fifteenth-century painting St Luke Drawing the Virgin…
Looking for ways to access quality art experiences online? How about taking an in-depth digital tour of these exhibitions? They were all co-curated by members of the Department of History of Art here at York, in collaboration with the galleries…
The Royal Collection Trust recently launched a new website focusing on ‘The Lost Collection of Charles I‘. Niko Munz, a current PhD student in the Department of History of Art, was behind the research for the database project, which attempts to reconstruct…
On the evening of Thursday 10 October, York Art Gallery held the opening of its new exhibition Making a Masterpiece: Bouts and Beyond, 1450-2020, which has been curated by Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein (University of York) with Dr Beatrice Bertram and Dr Jenny Alexander (both York Art Gallery).…