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Joan Eardley podcast

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5 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
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10 minute read

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Iain Stewart's selection from You Are Here

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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SING SIGN: a close duet

10 minute read

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5 minute read

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Artists
In Conversation with Ken Currie

10 minute read

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Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery

10 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Queer Creatures

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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Disappearing Glasgow

5 minute read

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Talk | Sorcha Dallas - Alasdair Gray Magnificent Citizen

5 minute read

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Extract from Vanessa Harryhausen's book Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema

10 minute read

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Art in the open

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

10 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
5 new exhibitions coming to the Galleries this year

10 minute read

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5 minute read

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Restoring 'Christ Teacheth Humility' by Robert Scott Lauder (part three)

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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5 minute read

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When Marshall Julius met Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

Blog Artists
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5 minute read

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A Year of The Drawing Room online

5 minute read

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Tam Dean Burn | Mask Made

20 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
A new Ken Currie painting and acquisitions going on display in the Modern Portrait

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A Jacobite Icon | Allan Ramsay’s Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775 - 1851
Henry Vaughan – ‘A great Turner man’

10 minute read

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Bridget Riley, Intervals 2

10 minute read

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Art Spot

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The Scottish National Gallery Project

5 minute read

Scottish Art Projects
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10 minute read

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15 minute read

Learning
Horror and Harryhausen

5 minute read

Artists
Restoring 'Christ Teacheth Humility' by Robert Scott Lauder (part one)

5 minute read

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Dismal Thoughts | Thomas Carlyle on Race

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Revised completion date for the Scottish National Gallery Project

5 minute read

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L’Écuyère (The Horse Rider) by Marc Chagall

10 minute read

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Portrait of a Girl in Grey by Gwen John

10 minute read

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Digital art in a time of virus

15 minute read

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5 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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Artist talk | Katie Paterson answers questions on Future Library 2014-2114

10 minute read

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5 minute read

Scottish Art Learning
Sensory trail

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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MacKinnon Collection | Cataloguing Dawn of Light and Liberty

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The knowledge of care | Revisiting Iain Stewart's Tender series

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Scottish National Gallery | Which artwork have you missed most?

10 minute read

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5 minute read

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10 minute read

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Talk | Maggie Craig - Scotland’s Forgotten Heroes

10 minute read

Blog Learning
From our archive | Inspired by Norse mythology

5 minute read

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Home entertainment for grown-ups

15 minute read

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Mindfulness and Art | British Sign Language (BSL) videos

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Modern One | Which artwork have you missed most?

10 minute read

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Art Around You

5 minute read

Learning
From our archive | La Dame Ovale

10 minute read

Blog Learning
Film | Richard Demarco remembers Strategy: Get Arts fifty years on

10 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
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Blog Scottish Art
Past event | Friday Night Mixer: Where are the Women?

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Alan Davie (1920-2014)

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Portrait Gallery | Audio tour

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Outreach team | Helping people access visual art

5 minute read

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Past event | Joan Eardley: A Private View

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Titan of Cinema | Student competition

15 minute read

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5 minute read

Talk | Sara Sheridan - Where Are The Women?

5 minute read

Past event | Bridget Riley: Writing the Body - live performance

15 minute read

Blog Artists
From our archive | Surrealist Argentinian playing cards

10 minute read

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5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
‘Always on my mind'

10 minute read

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15 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Can you help identify these images?

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
You are Here | At home holiday activities

5 minute read

Learning
From our archive | Toyen

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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5 minute read

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A tribute to a Galleries volunteer

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | Artist book of proverbs

5 minute read

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Richard Demarco | 90th birthday interview

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania: A Creative Response

10 minute read

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From our archive | Shakespeare and Scotland

10 minute read

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2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions

5 minute read

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Hidden Trax: chatting with local artists

5 minute read

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A Paula Rego Reading List

5 minute read

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10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | Penny Slinger

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Talk | Liz Louis - The life and work of James Tassie

10 minute read

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Meet the Scottish National Gallery Project Team: Mara Barth

5 minute read

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The importance of Paula Rego's Abortion Series

5 minute read

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A delicate White Drake by a Glasgow Boy

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
'The Fairy Oak of Corrie Water'. Study for a book illustration for 'Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales'
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5 minute read

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5 minute read

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From our archive | Scottie Wilson's flat cap and fountain pens

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | The Alan Davie Trio

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Dark and Light of Being in Love

5 minute read

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From our archive | Leafing through one of the oldest books in our collection

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Scottish National Gallery Project - Announcement

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Video | Factum Foundation take 3D scan of Velázquez classic

10 minute read

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Doddie Weir | Portrait of Scotland rugby icon on display

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Moon: so near, yet so far

5 minute read

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Lobsters, busts, and Paolozzi's socks: the view from the gallery floor

5 minute read

Blog
The MacKinnon Collection | Scottish sport between 1840 and 1940

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Last chance to see...or is it?

5 minute read

A Scottish tradition | JMW Turner and the Vaughan Bequest

10 minute read

Blog Artists
The MacKinnon Collection | Scotland at work from 1840 to 1940

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | When Andy Warhol illustrated a cookbook

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Reflections: Art, Life and Love

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Painting Robert Burns | Alexander Nasmyth and Scotland's national bard

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Introducing Henry, Prince of Wales - one portrait or two?

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Casting the Doctor

5 minute read

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

10 minute read

Artists
A day out at the Gallery of Modern Art

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Artistic Partnerships

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The MacKinnon Collection | Love is all around

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Photographing the Forth Bridge

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Meet the Team: Tricia Allerston

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Then and Now: Images from Scotland’s Photograph Album

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
An ode to influence | On the work of Janice Parker

10 minute read

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Who are these unknown women?

10 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Artists and the Mind

10 minute read

Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | The Artist and Travel

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Depicting Scotland

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Representing Women

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Identity

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Art and Ray Harryhausen

5 minute read

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Ray Harryhausen | The grandfather of stop-frame animation

5 minute read

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Ten things you might not know about the Scottish National Gallery

5 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Scottish National Portrait Gallery gets special visit from NHS Tayside Photo Competition prize-winners

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The MacKinnon Collection | Edinburgh exhibitions reviewed by The Scotsman

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Announcement - The BP Portrait Award 2019

5 minute read

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A Film Poem on Diego Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, by poet Stav Poleg

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Our statement on Edinburgh's Christmas Market

5 minute read

Blog
A Brief History of Eerie, Ghostly and Unsettling Photography

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Scottish National Gallery Project: Meet the team

5 minute read

Blog
A life dedicated to art | Flora Macdonald Reid

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Art conservation | How are frames chosen?

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Curator’s Top Ten: Scottish landscapes

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
An ornate link to one of Edinburgh's most popular tearooms

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Scottish National Gallery on screen

5 minute read

Blog
ARTIST ROOMS

15 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Projects
Fresh Produce | Maps showcase

5 minute read

Blog
Views of Beauty: A Day in Edinburgh

5 minute read

Blog
Charles Jencks, 1939-2019

10 minute read

Artists
Maps and Imagination

10 minute read

Blog Theme
The Scottish National Gallery's Gardens Entrance is now open!

5 minute read

Blog
Cold War Steve

5 minute read

Blog
Penny Slinger | Collage is a naughty medium

15 minute read

Blog Artists
Activities for all at the National Galleries of Scotland

10 minute read

Blog Learning
A Day out in Edinburgh

5 minute read

Blog
Dogs at the Scottish National Gallery

5 minute read

Blog
Taking inspiration: Miss Fantoush

5 minute read

Blog
Top 10 Instagram Spots at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

Blog
Top 5 celebrity spots

5 minute read

Blog
Smartify | Artwork recognition for your phone

5 minute read

Blog Projects
Craig's Cupboard Door: The Story of an Unwitting Artist

5 minute read

Blog
Inspiring Journals Competition

5 minute read

Blog
Through the Eyes of Bridget Riley

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Collage competition

5 minute read

Blog
Edinburgh photographers inspired to create their own Self Evidence

10 minute read

Blog
Artwork in focus | Antonio Zucchi's portrait of James Adam

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Fresh Produce

15 minute read

Blog
Bridget Riley reviewed by The Telegraph's Mark Hudson

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Podcast series | The Making of a Portrait

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Visiting Antony Gormley’s 6 TIMES

10 minute read

Blog
Discover James Watt at the National Galleries of Scotland

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Five reasons why we are redeveloping the Scottish National Gallery

5 minute read

Projects
Dr Frances Fowle on the history on Georges Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Cut and Paste | Life in Collage

10 minute read

Blog Projects
Accessible path in East Princes Street Gardens is now open

5 minute read

Blog Projects
Antony Gormley's 6 TIMES returns to Edinburgh

5 minute read

Artists
Say it with flowers: the meaning of a rose

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Made in New York: how modern and contemporary culture was shaped in one city

5 minute read

Blog
15,000 photographs of Scotland | Introducing the MacKinnon Collection

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Bringing Art into the Open

10 minute read

Blog
Snapchats | Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe

10 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Audio and Video
Eduardo Paolozzi and the art of screenprinting

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Art prints for all

5 minute read

Blog
Queen Victoria's impact on art in Scotland

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Queen Victoria and photography

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
April update on Scottish National Gallery project

5 minute read

Blog
Wad ever grac’d a dance of witches! – The Art of Tam O’Shanter

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Dead men tell no tales | Skeletons in Scotland's art collection

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Halloween | Terrifying tales from the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The Hand!

5 minute read

Blog
Who is Santa Claus? On the trail of St Nicholas

10 minute read

Blog Theme
The Cowan Smith Bequest | How a Dandie Dinmont Terrier helped to build Scotland’s art collection

10 minute read

Blog
Visually Impaired Tour | Sculpture Park

30 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
The art of Alberta Whittle and Emilio Bianchic

10 minute read

Blog
Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi | I want to be a machine

10 minute read

Blog
2019 at the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

Blog
The Monarch of the Glen
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5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Beings | An exhibition created by young people from across Scotland

5 minute read

Projects
NOW | Monster Chetwynd, Henry Coombes, Moyna Flannigan, Betye Saar, Wael Shawky

10 minute read

Blog
Pattern Recognition | Jeffrey Milstein and the ‘magic’ of the view from above

5 minute read

Blog
Mary, Queen of Scots in 10 Objects

10 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Robert Burns

10 minute read

Blog
Artist Sandy Moffat reflects on 'Poets' Pub'

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Fille née sans mère [Girl Born without a Mother]
Art in the Age of Technology

10 minute read

Blog
Face to face with eight Scottish writers whose stories went global

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Phrenology in the nineteenth century

10 minute read

Blog
Caricature | Drawing Jocky Wilson

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Art conservation | Preparing Guthrie's 'Oban' and Paterson's 'Edinburgh from Craigleith' for display

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
An update on the project contractor for the Scottish National Gallery redevelopment

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Machine Learning | A William Letford Commission

5 minute read

Blog
Work begins in East Princes Street Gardens as the transformation of the Scottish National Gallery continues…

10 minute read

Blog
Top five reasons to visit the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this winter

5 minute read

Blog
Jacqueline Kennedy II (from the portfolio 'Eleven Pop Artists', vol. II)
Essay | Andy Warhol's productivity

30 minute read

Artists
'Lobster Telephone' by Salvador Dalí and Edward James

10 minute read

Blog
The convergence of the Belle Époque

10 minute read

Blog
Crafting an image | The photographic techniques of Alfred G. Buckham

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Avril and the new world of fashion

10 minute read

Blog
Careers in the visual arts

5 minute read

Learning
Baby's first artwork

10 minute read

Blog
We Will Remember Them

20 minute read

Blog
An updated response on the removal of Princes Street Gardens trees

10 minute read

Projects
Going global: How High-Steppers travelled the world

15 minute read

Blog Artists
Turner and the Poetics of Landscape

5 minute read

Artists
Toulouse-Lautrec and the golden age of the poster

5 minute read

Blog
Rembrandt: Ten Facts in Two Minutes

2 minute read

Blog
Planes, Trains & Stereographs

5 minute read

Blog
'Posy Croft' by Oskar Kokoschka

5 minute read

Blog
'Self Portrait with Fireflies and Faces' by Raqib Shaw

5 minute read

Blog
New Towns to Tokyo

5 minute read

Blog
Artists in Profile

15 minute read

Audio and Video
THE WORK OF ART

30 minute read

Audio and Video Artists
The MacKinnon Collection | Historic collection of photographs returns home to Scotland

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Vast interiors

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
When you were young

5 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Civilisations: The Vital Spark?

5 minute read

Blog
Dancers at the Moulin Rouge
Inspired by Civilisations: Radiance

5 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Civilisations: First Contact

5 minute read

Blog
Photographing Children

5 minute read

Blog
Man of Sorrows
Inspired by Civilisations: The Eye of Faith

5 minute read

Blog
Pictures from No Man's Land

5 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Civilisations: Picturing Paradise?

5 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Civilisations: How Do We Look?

5 minute read

Blog
Inspired by Civilisations: Moments of Creation

5 minute read

Blog
Diana and Callisto
Titian

20 minute read

Artists
Under the Moon: Composing for Daubigny and Impressionism

5 minute read

Blog
Children in Art

10 minute read

Theme
The Art of the Future

5 minute read

Projects
Photographing Family

5 minute read

Blog
2018 exhibition programme

5 minute read

Blog
Scottish identity: Who decides who we are?

20 minute read

Learning
Fèin-aithne Albannach: Cò aige a tha an co-dhùnadh air cò th’ annainn?

20 minute read

Learning
Thomas Annan

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Graham MacIndoe: A Picture of Health

10 minute read

Blog
Beyond Ada: Celebrating Women in Science

10 minute read

Blog
A look back at our summer family activities

5 minute read

Blog
A Portrait of the Artist

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Little Sparta Residency Programme

10 minute read

Blog
(Untitled) Butcher Boys

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Hill & Adamson

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Surrealism

15 minute read

Theme
Lee Miller

5 minute read

Artists
Contemporary Art in Scotland

15 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
GENERATION

10 minute read

Projects
Razor’s Edge Barbershop

5 minute read

Blog
The Photographers, the Kirkyard and the Poltergeist

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A Portrait Group
True to Life

10 minute read

Blog
Looking Good in Neckwear

10 minute read

Blog
The Story of Scottish Art: Joan Eardley

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Photographer David Eustace examines the work of his predecessors, Hill and Adamson

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools and Families

5 minute read

Learning
Views of Little Sparta

10 minute read

Blog
The Blank Slate is a Man-Made Myth

5 minute read

Blog
Inside book production: A Perfect Chemistry

10 minute read

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Constable's Clouds

5 minute read

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Episodes From Scottish History

10 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
Getting from A to B to C to D...

1 minute read

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The Sackening

5 minute read

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Joan Eardley | Ideas In The Mind

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Spectacles for Viewing Spectacles

5 minute read

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The Dark Mountains
Pictorialism in Scotland

5 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
2017 at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

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Volunteer Voice: Samantha

3 minute read

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A Painted Stag and Skooshy Cream

3 minute read

Blog
Meeting Your (Super) Heroes

5 minute read

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M.C. Escher: A Farewell to Stairwells

5 minute read

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The Italian Job: Bringing Scots in Italy to the Portrait Gallery

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A Date with Mr Darcy?

5 minute read

Blog
Symbolism

10 minute read

Theme
Phoebe Anna Traquair

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Vija Celmins Learning Resource

30 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Learning
Belief

5 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Theme
Steven Campbell

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
All Roads Lead to Scotland | Paul Strand's 1950s Hebridean photographs

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Tattoo Artist's Son
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15 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Theme
Constable & McTaggart

15 minute read

Projects
The Two Roberts

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Karla Black

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Jamie Murray, b.1986, and Andy Murray, b. 1987, Tennis Players
The Murray Brothers’ Surreal Encounter

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
J.D Fergusson

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Machrihanish Bay
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10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Uilleam Mac an t-Sagairt

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
The Glasgow Boys

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Ealain Albannach aig Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Between the Covers: Surrealist Erotica

5 minute read

Joan Eardley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Nathan Coley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Peter Doig's Milky Way

5 minute read

Blog
Tracing the origins of Surrealism

5 minute read

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F.C.B Cadell

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Language

10 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Theme
A very serious game: the work of M.C. Escher

5 minute read

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Roy Lichtenstein Learning Resource

30 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Learning
Joseph Beuys Learning Resource

30 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Learning
Arthur Melville

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
The Etching Printer - William Strang, 1859 - 1921
William Strang

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Portraiture in Scotland

10 minute read

Scottish Art Theme
Ed Ruscha- Learning Resource

15 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Learning
Wandering Shadows
Scottish Art at the National Galleries of Scotland

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Scottish Art Theme
Douglas Gordon

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David Young Cameron

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Scottish Art Artists
Legend, Fantasy and Imagination

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Master Baby
Movements in Scottish Art

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Early Photography

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Louise Bourgeois Learning Resource

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Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864 - 1932)
Phill Jupitus encounters Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

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The Great Hall in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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The Body

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