Art gallery

Yeah, so it's this Sunday between 11am and 4pm.

People can pop in any time during that period in the Art Gallery, Elder Hall, South Australian Museum and the State Library.

And we've got a map of where you can go and see ensembles playing.

Each ensemble plays two or three times during the day, the same set.

And that brings together eight musicians from classical backgrounds, from Nexus Art Orchestra with different instruments from Japan.

China and Iran and along with vibraphone.

So they're going to do this beautiful piece in the art gallery at the end of the day, which explores the idea of dawn to dusk.

And it's quite cinematic.

We throw that all out of the window.

Go to a modern art gallery and you'll see...

Tyres and scribbles and spray paint on the walls.

Banksy is a prime example of graffiti artists in a public space.

That's what we tend to say to ourselves, isn't it? But I think it's been amazing.

And she's introduced so many different styles.

And we went on a trip to the Art Gallery in Leeds with one of the curators talking about the Atkinson Grimshaw exhibition, which was really interesting.

And then we came back and... did something in the style of Atkinson Grimshaw.

Academy curators were asked to spend half their time teaching at Drexel.

Then came the Art Gallery, a $3 million project converting the library's main reading room into a space for the avant-garde.

Cooper would explain to staff that the pieces were meant to spur conversation about climate change or the natural world.

But the abstraction of the art felt out of place in a museum whose bread and butter was clearly explaining natural history to visitors, especially younger ones.

seems York is really picking up in terms of the arts.

It's got a lot more live music and it's got a great art gallery and now it's got Topping & Company Bookshop.

yeah what i like about this event again i think is that great tradition in york of an independent thinking with some backing to be fair from the council but you know it's bepe's taken taken on this enthusiastic project lots of people have piled in behind him with their expertise to help him to put this event on lots of sold-out concerts york arts barge has had particularly good concerts apparently And so you've had people maybe going to venues they've never been to before, maybe Young Thug Studios they've not ever been to before, very much a kind of cult venue within the city.

Winning Post used to be a regular place for concerts, less so now, but therefore it's great that it's taking part in this event.

And it's just a fantastic place.

Another interesting thing was that the...

Kiamasa, the Contemporary Museum Art Gallery in Helsinki, which is really fancy-dan and very modernistic and very modern Turner Prize-like.

So, in other words, half of it was rubbish,

Uh, I took with me my friend and colleague, uh, Sheila Jeffreys.

We'd arranged to meet outside Catto's Art Gallery, and I looked down, and there was this sort of diminutive Queen Mother figure standing out there, and I said, "Well, that must be her." So we went down, met her, and introduced ourselves, and indeed it was.

So she took us round the corner into, uh, the, the house around the corner to give us tea.

Uh, where I had tea and biscuits.