The Project Gallery works with local communities and modern artists responding to our collections. It is located to the left of the main entrance at York Art Gallery and you can apply for free entry during normal gallery opening hours.
Teenage Art School
June—September
Come and experience the creativity, hi—tech and exploration of traditional art techniques produced by Teenage Art School. This year's free exhibition is currently on display in the Project Gallery until late September. Our experimental five—day course for children between 14 and17 years runs yearly, studying different topics and approaches to help young people develop their skills as artists.
Bouts Artist in Residence
October—December
York Art Gallery is pleased to be working with a student artist from York St John's University to produce fine art visuals in response to Making a Masterpiece: Bouts and Beyond. Using the exhibition as a starting point for inspiration, our students will create their own art—work in the Project Gallery. See how artists make images and work on techniques in this developing studio and display space.
This exhibition has been developed as a funded partnership with The Bowes Museum and Bristol Museum.
It was the day after Christmas 33 years ago. My wife gave birth to our first child. We were full of appreciation to have Joseph John Mazzella II , also called JJ, sleeping peacefully in the cradle(摇篮)next to our bed.
We had been on the road showing off our little baby to all of the grandparents and great—grandparents. It had been a busy Christmas and hard on my wife who was still recovering from her operation. Now we were back in our tiny flat trying to get a few extra hours of sleep before starting the day.
Just then I heard JJ stirring in his cradle. I leaned over and picked him up before he started to cry and then carefully stole out into the living room so that my wife could keep sleeping. I picked up a bottle and sat in our rocking chair with JJ in my arms. I rocked quietly and fed him in the living room while he looked up at me with his loving eyes. I spoke softly to him but also felt a little nervous and scared as I watched him. How was I going to take care of him? I was a new father and had no idea what the future had in store for us. I rocked and rocked. But luckily, I had so many elders to help me.
After a few minutes I saw the sun slowly rising in the sky outside my window. The bright light was shining down from the heavens making the freshly fallen snow shine with beauty that touched my soul. As I watched it, my fear escaped and I felt such a sense of peace, harmony, love and joy. The Christmas spirit had entered my heart and I smiled. I knew then that whatever the future would hold, it would be smooth as long as I kept love in my heart. New life is precious and I believed my child would be grateful, too and bring us new sunshine in the future.
Visitors to Rome can now see one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman statues (雕像). The 90 works from the Torlonia Collection opened this week in the newly rebuilt Palazzo Caffarelli, overlooking the Roman Forum.
Among the works is a fountain (喷泉) that was made in ancient Greece. Experts on ancient Rome believe the fountain once stood in the garden of the general and statesman Julius Caesar. It was already hundreds of years old.
The 620-piece Torlonia Collection is believed to be the greatest private collection of classical art in the world. It was begun more than a century ago by Prince Alessandro Torlonia. He found many of the pieces on the grounds of his family's Roman garden Rich from a business relationship with the Vatican (梵蒂冈), the family bought other well-known statue collections.
In 1884, the prince built his own museum to show off his collection. When the museum closed in 1976, the pieces went into storage.
"The reappearance of such a collection is a very important event," said art historian Salvatore Settis. "When I saw them for the first time, they were very emotional because I knew most of those pieces from books, but 1 had never seen them."
The Torlonia family chose Settis to help with the difficult job of deciding which works should be shown to the public. Anna Maria Carruba helped prepare the statues for the show. "Many of these pieces were already restored from (the year) 1600 onwards. We didn't need to work on the structure of the statues but only on the surfaces, cleaning them," she said.
The show will stay open until June 29, 2021. It is the result of public and private cooperation among the culture ministry, the city of Rome, the Torlonia Foundation and the Roman jeweler Bvlgari.
You may have noticed particular bright night skies recently as we experienced a full moon. NASA reported the event, called the Wolf Moon, began Thursday afternoon and ended Saturday morning. But did you notice any changes in your personal sleep patterns in the days leading up to the full moon?
As the latest full moon was beginning, a new study was released suggesting that a full moon can affect human sleep cycles. Researchers confirmed that the nights leading up to a full moon have more natural light available after the sun goes down.
The new research found that in the days before a full moon, people go to sleep later in the evening and sleep for shorter periods of time.
The moon takes 27. 3 days to go around the Earth, but it takes 29.5 days to complete a full cycle from New Moon to New Moon. The new study measured the sleep patterns of test subjects as the moon progressed through at least one whole 29.5—day cycle. Some subjects were tested through two moon cycles.
On average, people involved in the study slept about 52 minutes less on nights before a full moon. They also went to bed about 30 minutes later. The research showed that people had the latest bedtime and the shortest amount of sleep during the nights that were three to five days before a full moon.
The study involved 98 individuals living in three different indigenous communities in Argentina. Each local community had different access to electricity. One countryside community had no electricity access, while a second had only limited access. A third community was in a more populated area and had full access to electricity.
The scientists say further research is needed to help explain other possible causes for the changes in sleep patterns in the test subjects. Such causes could involve biological differences in individuals or social patterns within communities.
How to Be Productive During Difficult Times
When we are struggling, or when we have a hard time focusing, we may turn to others for help. We may even wish we had a hero to help us. Well, today here is some advice for you.
Turn ourselves into our own heroes.
When we make ourselves heroes, we not only gain focus but also a sense of purpose. For example, it can give us hope as stories in the books often do. In stories, writers often give their hero, the main person in the story, a purpose.
Write out our tasks and ideas.
In stories, heroes also have tasks, which they want to finish and ideas, which they see for themselves. So we can write out our tasks and ideas, not just for a project but for our life as well. With clear tasks and ideas, events in our life no longer seem to be separate events. There's just a lot of value in having tasks and ideas.
When we know our strengths, we can use them fully. In difficult times, we can make our life easier by focusing on our strengths. It is even more important to identify weaknesses. All heroes have them. On their journey they face their weaknesses and learn from them.
Have small goals within a larger goal.
As we know, the hero's journey is not a one—time thing. It is a journey we are on in our entire life. Our life's journey is ongoing and ever—changing. We should be realistic with our goals and to be kind to ourselves, especially during difficult times.
A. Learn from heroes in stories.
B. We often live a life without purpose.
C. Know our strengths and weaknesses.
D. They become part of our larger stories.
E. So have small goals that we can measure in some way.
F. We can do the same for ourselves and identify our purposes.
G. Making ourselves the heroes in our own stories helps us in many ways.
I was standing in the checkout line behind a young woman. When it was her 1 today, the cashier called her name and asked her how she was going. It looked as if they were 2 with each other.
The woman looked 3 and said, "Not so good. My husband has just 4 his job and has nothing to do at home. My son is up to his old 5 again and often makes trouble at school. I don't know how to 6 the difficult time." Then she paid for her food.
I was 7 to hear that. I wanted to help but didn't know how. Should I 8 some cash for her or find a job for her husband? The woman left the store before I could do anything.
When I returned to the parking lot, I 9 the woman at a distance, and I remembered something that could help her in a different but hopefully 10 way. Then I said, "Excuse me? I'm so sorry that I heard something 11 you said to the cashier 12. I'd like to give you something." I handed her a(n) 13.
When she opened it and read the only two 14 in the letter, she began to cry. Then she smiled through 15,"You have no idea how much this means to me."
All I could think to 16 was, "Would it be OK to give you a(n) 17?" She agreed. After we hugged, I walked back to my car and began to 18 too. Do you know the words in the letter? "You Matter." I think telling other people that they matter also matters. We starve for 19 but feel more helpless than ever. 20, we are always needed by each other.
Body language is used by people for sending messages to one another. It is very useful because it can help you make yourself (easy) understood. When you are talking with others, you are not only using words, but also using expressions and gestures. A smile and a handshake show welcome, and (clap) hands always means congratulations. Nodding the head means agreement but shaking the head means disagreement. The gestures (accept) both by Chinese and foreigners as having same meanings.
There is a wide (various) of body language in the world. For example, men in Russia, France and Arab countries kiss each other when they meet, but men in China and Australia shake hands instead of kissing. People in Puerto Rio like touching each other, but people, come from English—speaking countries, do not touch each other. People in Arab countries like standing close to one another when they are talking. However, English people must keep a distance away. In some (Asia) countries, you must not touch the head of another person.
When you use a foreign language, it is very important (know) the meanings of gestures and movements in the foreign country. Following the customs will help you communicate better with people there.addition, by this means you can make your stay there more (please) and comfortable.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意： 1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My neighbor Granny Zhang and my mother are good friend. They often walk, dance and shop together. Last week Granny Zhang gave us several pies making by herself. And she brought big apples, which given by her relatives. We were very grateful for her generosity. How could we thanked her? Then an opportunity came. Yesterday was the Children's Day. I made lots of dumplings with my mother, and then I sent any to Granny Zhang's house. She was very happily to see me. She happily accepted the food but gave me a box of chocolate for return. Later she told me that she celebrated the day by cook the dumplings for her grandchildren.
