Date: Sunday 19 May 2024, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
10.30am – 12.30pm, free
Date: Sunday 19 May 2024, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
10.30am – 12.30pm, free
Date: Thursday 23 May 2024, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Thursday 23 May –
Dr Chris Riopelle, The Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London
Monet’s ‘The Water-Lily Pond’
The longest lived of the key French Impressionist masters, Claude Monet (1840-1926) was every bit as radical and inventive a painter at the end of life as in fearless youth. In his final years his principal – indeed, obsessive – subject was the lower of two gardens at his country estate at Giverny west of Paris. It was dominated by an arching Japanese bridge over a pond of water-lilies. For decades he explored with unending pleasure the ever-changing light conditions, advancing and retreating foliage and myriad reflections on the pond. This is a key early work in the series, executed just before the turn of the 20th century. The talk explores the surprising richness of the theme, Monet’s use of scale and canvas shape to invest meaning, and his flirtation with painterly abstraction, so influential on later generations of painters.
Christopher Riopelle is The Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London. He has held curatorial positions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, California, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and taught at the American College, Paris, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Recent exhibitions he has curated or co-curated include Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art (Minneapolis and London, 2015-16), Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market (Paris, London and Philadelphia, 2014-15), Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection (London, 2011), Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light (London and Dublin, 2019), Gauguin Portraits (Ottawa and London, 2019-20) and Conversations with God: Matejko’s ‘Copernicus’ (2021). He is currently preparing the National Gallery’s major bicentenary exhibition Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers opening in September 2024.
Date: Saturday 25 May 2024, All Day
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Date: Saturday 25 May 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Performances at intervals throughout the day.
Included in general admission
Date: Saturday 25 May 2024, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Venue: York Art Gallery
25 May
£15.00 per person
In the unique and creative surroundings of York Art Gallery, Chloe McKay and the Stables Yoga Centre present a series of flowing hatha yoga classes. These sessions will help you slow down, feel grounded and inspired. You’ll be guided through a series of poses to help release physical tension and connect you to your body and breath. Mindfulness techniques will offer calm to a busy mind. The class will end with a short relaxation leaving you to enjoy the beautiful setting accompanied by a sense of deep ease.
Chloe is a resident teacher at the Stables Yoga Centre. She has 15 years of teaching experience in a variety of styles of yoga ranging from dynamic to restorative. She is influenced by the practice of mindfulness, the mind-body connection and yoga’s capacity to generate positive change. Chloe is also a yoga therapist (Minded Institute) and IFS practitioner working with individuals, supporting a range of mental and physical health challenges. She leads group classes, workshops and yoga retreats throughout the year.
Yoga equipment will be provided, however please bring your own if preferred.
Suitable for those aged 18+
This workshop is part of our National Treasures: Monet in York exhibition events programme. Find out more about the exhibition here
Yoga will run 25 May, 29 June and 27 July 2024.
Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Performances at intervals throughout the day.
Included in general admission
Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024, 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery
Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Venue: Yorkshire Museum
Date: Thursday 30 May 2024, All Day
Venue: York Art Gallery
Date: Thursday 30 May 2024, All Day
Venue: York Castle Museum
Performances at intervals throughout the day.
Included in general admission
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