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The council is based at West Offices on Station Rise, which is the converted and extended original York railway station of 1841. [37] The council moved into the newly-extended building in 2013. [38] Guildhall, York: Council's former headquarters, where the council chamber is still used for some full council meetings.
The Arts Council of Great Britain was created in 1946 by Royal Charter on the initiative of John Maynard Keynes.It received a revised charter in 1967. On 1 April 1994, it was divided to form the Arts Council of England, the Scottish Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Wales, each with their own new Royal Charter; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland already existed as a distinct body.
The first mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith, was elected in the 2024 York and North Yorkshire mayoral election in May 2024. [9] The mayor is a member of the Mayoral Council for England and the Council of the Nations and Regions.
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York Art Gallery is a public art gallery in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015.
An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. They often operate at arms-length from the government to prevent political interference in their decisions.
As the Arts Council began to move away from organising art activities in the 1950s, regional offices in England were restructured as regional art associations (RAAs). [2] The new RAAs were intermediate organisations acting as a link between the Arts Council and the regions set up by local authorities or consortiums of local arts associations. [2]
This 1897 image shows the death of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre in 1770. About 160 years later – in 1931 - a new social, educational and recreational center for Black people in York ...