Taking over the top level of Modern One, this changing programme of displays offers a brand new way to experience the nation's collection. Each room brings to light rarely displayed yet fascinating ...

The Glasgow Boys represent the beginnings of modernism in Scottish art. In the early 1880s, disillusioned by the artistic establishment’s emphasis on history painting, they recorded contemporary rural ...

This spectacular room at the heart of the Portrait Gallery houses a wealth of research resources on Scottish portraiture. The displays in the Library explore some surprising types of portraiture, from ...

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We invited young adults from Nigeria, Sudan, Iraq and Scotland to respond to artworks from the Scottish collection as part of our Celebrating Scotland’s Art project. The films that they produced speak ...

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Artists Nicky Bird (Before & After Coal) and Rosy Martin (Women In Revolt!) talk about the significance of the early 1980s on their featured works in each shows, and their reflections on shared ...

Liz Rideal is an artist, author and Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Her work was featured in the Women in Revolt! exhibition in Modern Two. In this talk Rideal makes connections ...

To celebrate the opening of Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990 at Modern Two, we were joined for an ‘in conversation’ event with the exhibition’s curator Linsey Young (Tate) and ...

Curator and author Alina Khakoo (Cambridge University) chairs a discussion with featured Women in Revolt! artists Nina Edge and Pratibha Parmar. The title of this talk representing South Asian Women ...

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was, alongside her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the key figures in the emergence of the ‘Glasgow Style’ in the 1890s. Born near Wolverhampton, she settled in ...