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Marie Maitland: Scotland's 16th century Sappho

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Caring for the unconventional: Karla Black’s sculptures enter the collection

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Sandy Moffat’s Archive: Railing against the Establishment

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Conversations with the Collection | Staff Insights on Francesca Woodman

5 minute read

Blog
Conversations with the Collection | Staff Insights on Anne Redpath

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A Scottish Colourist Gift: The Rose and the Lacquer Screen by F. C. B. Cadell

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Archive treasures belonging to the forgotten British surrealist Edith Rimmington

10 minute read

Blog
Artist at Work and the environment

5 minute read

Blog
Conversations with the Collection | A conversation piece (audio tour)

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Scotland in Europe | Curating Connections from 1939 to the Present

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Conversations with the Collection | Staff Insights on Richard Long

5 minute read

Blog
The story of our Friday Quiz

5 minute read

Blog
Ada, on paper

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Unmissable upcoming exhibitions

5 minute read

Conversations with the Collection | Staff Insights on Sarah Lucas

5 minute read

Blog
Conversations with the Collection | Staff Insights on Douglas Gordon

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Talks & Lectures | In Focus: In the Orchard by Sir James Guthrie

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | ‘Spinsters' and Influencers: Women Collectors of Impressionism

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | Counted: Gingers

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | Hepworth: Operating Theatre/Opera and Theatre

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Artists at work 2

5 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Art and Horror

5 minute read

Blog
Conversations with the Collection | Welcome Audio Tour

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Art chat | Conversations with the Collection

5 minute read

Learning
Art chat | New Arrivals

5 minute read

Learning
Form and Colour: Friendship, Patronage and Collaboration between Barbara Hepworth, Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Conservation | Mounting and framing Jazz

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Edinburgh Through Art | City Walking Tour

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Young People, Art, Uncertainty and the Curriculum

10 minute read

Learning
Good art | Who decides?

5 minute read

Learning
Does a portrait need a face?

5 minute read

Learning
‘Supposing That Lots of Things Were True’ | Scottish Women Artists on Wikipedia

5 minute read

Visually Impaired Tour | Conversations with the Collection

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Celebrating the visually impaired programme

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Town Takeover | A Young Peoples’ Outreach Project

5 minute read

Learning
Label Writing with Pupils across Scotland | Fife – West Lothian – Orkney.

5 minute read

Blog Learning
The beauty of maths

5 minute read

Learning
Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait discovered

5 minute read

Blog
Life Hacks Project | Youth led, visual art interventions in North Ayrshire

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
King James VI & I – Art & Culture at the Jacobean Court

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Scottish National Gallery Project set for Summer 2023 completion

5 minute read

Blog Projects
Five ways to discover the Scottish National Gallery Project

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Talks & Lectures | Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life

5 minute read

Audio and Video Artists
Alberta Whittle - solo exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2023

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Who’s That Boy? Sitting for Joan Eardley

10 minute read

Blog
Bloodlines | Amie Siegel in conversation

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The first drawing by Lowry to enter Scotland's national collection

5 minute read

Esther Inglis: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

5 minute read

Self-portrait, 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn

5 minute read

Blog
Art Helps

5 minute read

Learning
Queer Lives & Art: books and belonging with Lavender Menace

15 minute read

Blog Theme
Queer Lives & Art: leabhraichean agus buinteanas le Lavender Menace

15 minute read

Blog Theme
Scotland's Photograph Album tour | Stornoway concert

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The MacKinnon Collection Digitisation | Cased Photographs

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Edyta Majewska | Other White

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Things are looking up

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Talks & Lectures | Counted: Scotland’s Census Eigg panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
New Arrivals podcast | Marie Harnett

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Surrealism and Design

5 minute read

Blog
Surrealism and Music

5 minute read

Blog
Inner Landscapes

5 minute read

Blog
Who was...

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Surrealism and Fashion

5 minute read

Blog
Find Your Surreal

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Amara Eno | The 25 Percent

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Amie Siegel, Bloodlines

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema | Women in Animation panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Mahtab Hussain | You Get Me?

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Kirsty Mackay | The Fish That Never Swam

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Kieran Dodds | Gingers

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Danny North | As I Found Her: A Portrait of Eigg

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Craig Waddell | Masc

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Art in the open | At home

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Restoring 'Christ Teacheth Humility' by Robert Scott Lauder

5 minute read

Blog Conservation
Patricia NicDhòmhnaill | Beachdachadh air èirigh na mara

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Patricia NicDhòmhnaill | Beachdachadh air deigh ri leaghadh

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A’ sgrùdadh atharrachadh àrainneachd sa Mhonadh Ruadh le Patricia NicDhòmhnaill

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Queer Lives & Art: Found Families

15 minute read

Blog Artists
Not Seeing Straight: Celebrating Queer Art

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
A Key Painting by Peter Doig for Scotland

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
The World's Edge | Cartography panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Henry & Sula Walton: A Bequest and Legacy

5 minute read

Blog Learning
New Arrivals podcast | At the Edge of Town by Peter Doig

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
New Arrivals podcast | Bachelorette by France-Lise McGurn

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Lost in the Detail: Naum Gabo's Monoprints

5 minute read

Blog Artists
The Age of Anxiety and Elisabeth Frink

5 minute read

Murray MacKinnon (1943-2021)

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Thomas Joshua Cooper podcast

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Fred Sandback - 'A drawing that is habitable’

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection | daguerreotypes

5 minute read

Blog Conservation
Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection

5 minute read

Blog Conservation
Archive Dive: Anton Prinner

5 minute read

Discovering Harryhausen

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Music at National Galleries of Scotland | Live Music Now

5 minute read

Learning
A Tail of Two Acquisitions: 'Primitive Seating' by Dorothea Tanning

5 minute read

All Natural

5 minute read

Blog
Watson Gordon Lecture | Shadowing Diana: Paint and the Black Body

5 minute read

Learning
New Arrivals: From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville - now open!

5 minute read

Blog
Scotland Sketches: Baking with Flora Shedden

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Publishing during a pandemic – 'Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema'

5 minute read

Preserving Pasts, Imagining Futures | Workshop responses

5 minute read

Blog Artists
COP26 | Is culture the untapped ally for climate action?

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The World's Edge | Thomas Joshua Cooper in conversation

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Here's tae John Flaxman

5 minute read

Blog
Climate Action Needs Culture

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Framing 'Christ Teacheth Humility' by Robert Scott Lauder (part one)

5 minute read

Projects
Patricia Macdonald | Looking at sea-level rise

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
New Arrivals podcast | Portrait of Max Ernst by Leonora Carrington

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Spooky Scotland Sketches: Halloween Costumes

5 minute read

Scottish Art
Preserving Pasts, Imagining Futures | Responses

10 minute read

Blog Theme
Patricia Macdonald | Considering melting ice

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Visually Impaired Tour | Scottish National Gallery Highlights

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
National Galleries of Scotland teams up with WWF on Great Scottish Canvas project

5 minute read

Blog Projects
Introducing the National Galleries of Scotland Environmental Response Plan

5 minute read

Blog
80 Years of Music at National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Exploring environmental change in the Cairngorms with Patricia Macdonald

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
LGBTQ+ Voices in the Archive

5 minute read

Blog
Golden Years | Actress Caroline Munro on Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

Blog
Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography

10 minute read

Blog Learning
Scotland Sketches: Autumnal Changes

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Monster Chetwynd | Prolific Potato

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Make and Resist |​ Art activities inspired by artists of colour

5 minute read

Learning
Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors, Wangechi Mutu

5 minute read

'Joan Eardley: Land & Sea - A Life in Catterline' by Patrick Elliott

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Scotland and chattel slavery through the lens of art

5 minute read

Learning
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021)

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Painting the Poets: In Conversation with Clae Eastgate

5 minute read

Blog
Talks & Lectures | Lessons of the Hour | Isaac Julien in conversation with Celeste-Marie Bernier

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Scotland's art | Styles and schools

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Preserving pasts | Imagining futures

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Thomas Joshua Cooper musical commission written by Andrew Wasylyk

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
A Jacobite Icon | Allan Ramsay’s Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

10 minute read

Scottish Art
Talks & Lectures | Joan Eardley & Catterline panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Flashback | The game

5 minute read

Learning
National BBQ Week

10 minute read

Blog
10 things you probably didn't know about Joan Eardley

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From Lazio to Cockenzie and beyond: the making of a family restaurant

5 minute read

Blog
Five artworks you need to know by LGBTQ+ artists

10 minute read

Blog Theme
When Marshall Julius met Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Ruined | Reinventing Scottish History

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
In Conversation with Ken Currie

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A spotlight on Adam Elsheimer

5 minute read

Blog
Exploring the Post-Impressionist display with Sir John Leighton

10 minute read

Blog
A Year of The Drawing Room online

5 minute read

Blog Learning
5 new exhibitions coming to the Galleries this year

10 minute read

Questions about art

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Scotland's art | In focus

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
What is...

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talk | Sorcha Dallas - Alasdair Gray Magnificent Citizen

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Queer Creatures

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Celebrating Joseph Beuys's centenary and artistic legacy

5 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Artists
A new Ken Currie painting and acquisitions going on display in the Modern Portrait

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

Blog Conservation
Talks & Lectures | Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Outdoor learning

5 minute read

Learning
Hanna Tuulikki, SING SIGN: a close duet

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Joan Eardley podcast

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Art Fuel: ideas to fuel your art-making at home

5 minute read

Learning
Art in the open

5 minute read

Learning
International Women's Week with Samira Addo

5 minute read

Artists
International Women's Week with Alison Watt

5 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
International Women's Day with Arpita Shah

5 minute read

Artists
Frances Macdonald MacNair, Bows

5 minute read

Blog Artists
Disappearing Glasgow

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery

10 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Iain Stewart's selection from You Are Here

5 minute read

Blog
Tam Dean Burn | Mask Made

20 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Restoring 'Christ Teacheth Humility' by Robert Scott Lauder (part two)

5 minute read

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

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Fame by Frame: SFX Magazine on Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Henry Vaughan – ‘A great Turner man’

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Bridget Riley, Intervals 2

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Art Spot

5 minute read

Learning
The Scottish National Gallery Project

5 minute read

Scottish Art Projects
GIF it a go!

10 minute read

Blog Learning
Remaking our histories | Scotland, Slavery and Empire

15 minute read

Learning
Horror and Harryhausen

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

Blog Conservation
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

Blog
Marc Chagall, L’Écuyère (The Horse Rider)

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Gwen John, Portrait of a Girl in Grey

10 minute read

Blog Artists
Digital art in a time of virus

15 minute read

Blog Theme
Sensory Sculpture Stories

5 minute read

Learning
An unusual spring

15 minute read

Blog Artists
Talk | Mary Paulson-Ellis - What makes a hero?

10 minute read

Blog Learning
TIME: Past, Present, Future

10 minute read

Blog Theme
Katie Paterson, Future Library: A Century Unfolds, 2019

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Lockdown Concerts | Live Music Now

5 minute read

Scottish Art Learning
Sensory trail

5 minute read

Learning
A Mothering Sunday like no other

10 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
The Clearing - A Memoir of Invisible Light: Author Talk With Samantha Clark

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Home entertainment for children

10 minute read

Blog Learning
Talk | Maggie Craig - Scotland’s Forgotten Heroes

10 minute read

Blog Learning
From our archive | Inspired by Norse mythology

5 minute read

Blog
Home entertainment for grown-ups

15 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
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
Stay at home, save lives

5 minute read

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
Visually Impaired Tour | Portrait Gallery Highlights

30 minute read

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

5 minute read

Blog Projects
Past event | Joan Eardley: A Private View

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Titan of Cinema | Student competition

15 minute read

Learning Projects
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis | A Scottish Superhero

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
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

Blog
Gallery social at home | for anyone affected by dementia

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
‘Always on my mind'

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
What you need to do

15 minute read

Blog
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

Blog Learning
In the Mind’s Eye

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Walk, Talk, Make Sculpture Trail

5 minute read

Learning
A tribute to a Galleries volunteer

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | Artist book of proverbs

5 minute read

Blog Learning
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

Blog Scottish Art
From our archive | Shakespeare and Scotland

10 minute read

Blog Theme
2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions

5 minute read

Learning
Hidden Trax: chatting with local artists

5 minute read

Blog
A Paula Rego Reading List

5 minute read

Blog
Stay home this weekend | The Great Outdoors from the Small Indoors

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

Blog Scottish Art
Meet the Scottish National Gallery Project Team: Mara Barth

5 minute read

Blog
The importance of Paula Rego's Abortion Series

5 minute read

Blog
A delicate White Drake by a Glasgow Boy

5 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Exploring the Dark Side of Fairy Tales – retellings and reinterpretations by the Brothers Grimm, Walt Disney, Angela Carter and Paula Rego

5 minute read

Blog
Publication celebrates work of collage artists from across the globe

5 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
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

Blog
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

Blog
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

Blog
Joseph Mallord William Turner

10 minute read

Artists
A day out at the Gallery of Modern Art

5 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
Who are these unknown women?

10 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
Ray Harryhausen | The grandfather of stop-frame animation

5 minute read

Blog
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

Blog
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 Conservation
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
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

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15,000 photographs of Scotland | Introducing the MacKinnon Collection

10 minute read

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Bringing Art into the Open

10 minute read

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Snapchats | Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe

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Eduardo Paolozzi and the art of screenprinting

10 minute read

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Art prints for all

5 minute read

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Queen Victoria's impact on art in Scotland

10 minute read

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Queen Victoria and photography

10 minute read

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April update on Scottish National Gallery project

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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

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Halloween | Terrifying tales from the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

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The Hand!

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Who is Santa Claus? On the trail of St Nicholas

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Visually Impaired Tour | Sculpture Park

30 minute read

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

10 minute read

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2019 at the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

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Monarch of The Glen: The Creation of an Icon

5 minute read

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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

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

5 minute read

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Mary, Queen of Scots in 10 Objects

10 minute read

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Inspired by Robert Burns

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Artist Sandy Moffat reflects on 'Poets' Pub'

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Scottish Art
Art in the Age of Technology

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Face to face with eight Scottish writers whose stories went global

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Scottish Art
Phrenology in the 19th century

10 minute read

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Caricature | Drawing Jocky Wilson

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

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

10 minute read

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Machine Learning | A William Letford Commission

5 minute read

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

10 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Essay | Andy Warhol's productivity

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Salvador Dalí and Edward James, Lobster Telephone

10 minute read

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The convergence of the Belle Époque

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

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

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Careers in the visual arts

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Baby's first artwork

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We Will Remember Them

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An updated response on the removal of Princes Street Gardens trees

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Going global: How High-Steppers travelled the world

15 minute read

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Toulouse-Lautrec and the golden age of the poster

5 minute read

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Rembrandt: Ten Facts in Two Minutes

2 minute read

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Planes, Trains & Stereographs

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Oskar Kokoschka, Posy Croft

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Raqib Shaw, Self Portrait with Fireflies and Faces

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New Towns to Tokyo

5 minute read

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Artists in Profile

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THE WORK OF ART

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The MacKinnon Collection | Historic collection of photographs returns home to Scotland

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Vast interiors

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When you were young

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Inspired by Civilisations: The Vital Spark?

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Inspired by Civilisations: Radiance

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Photographing Children

5 minute read

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Inspired by Civilisations: The Eye of Faith

5 minute read

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Pictures from No Man's Land

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Inspired by Civilisations: Picturing Paradise?

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Inspired by Civilisations: How Do We Look?

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Inspired by Civilisations: Moments of Creation

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Titian

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Michael Begg | A Moon that Lights Itself

5 minute read

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Children in Art

10 minute read

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The Art of the Future

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Photographing Family

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2018 exhibition programme

5 minute read

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Scottish identity: Who decides who we are?

20 minute read

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

20 minute read

Learning
Edinburgh photographers inspired to create their own Self Evidence

10 minute read

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Thomas Annan

15 minute read

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Graham MacIndoe: A Picture of Health

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Beyond Ada: Celebrating Women in Science

10 minute read

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A look back at our summer family activities

5 minute read

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A Portrait of the Artist

5 minute read

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Little Sparta Residency Programme

10 minute read

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(Untitled) Butcher Boys

5 minute read

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Hill & Adamson

15 minute read

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Surrealism

15 minute read

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Lee Miller

5 minute read

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Contemporary Art in Scotland

15 minute read

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GENERATION

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Razor’s Edge Barbershop

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The Photographers, the Kirkyard and the Poltergeist

5 minute read

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True to Life

10 minute read

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Looking Good in Neckwear

10 minute read

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The Story of Scottish Art: Joan Eardley

5 minute read

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

10 minute read

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National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools and Families

5 minute read

Learning
Views of Little Sparta

10 minute read

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The Blank Slate is a Man-Made Myth

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Inside book production: A Perfect Chemistry

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Constable's Clouds

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Episodes From Scottish History

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Getting from A to B to C to D...

1 minute read

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The Sackening

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Joan Eardley | Ideas In The Mind

5 minute read

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Spectacles for Viewing Spectacles

5 minute read

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Pictorialism in Scotland

5 minute read

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

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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

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Meeting Your (Super) Heroes

5 minute read

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M.C. Escher: A Farewell to Stairwells

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

5 minute read

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A Date with Mr Darcy?

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Symbolism

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Phoebe Anna Traquair

10 minute read

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Vija Celmins Learning Resource

30 minute read

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Belief

5 minute read

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Steven Campbell

15 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Cultural Identity

15 minute read

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Constable & McTaggart

15 minute read

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The Two Roberts

10 minute read

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Karla Black

15 minute read

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The Murray Brothers’ Surreal Encounter

10 minute read

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J.D Fergusson

10 minute read

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William McTaggart

10 minute read

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Uilleam Mac an t-Sagairt

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
The Glasgow Boys

15 minute read

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Ealain Albannach aig Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba

5 minute read

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Between the Covers: Surrealist Erotica

5 minute read

Joan Eardley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Nathan Coley

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Tracing the origins of Surrealism

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FCB Cadell

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Language

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

5 minute read

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Roy Lichtenstein Learning Resource

30 minute read

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Joseph Beuys Learning Resource

30 minute read

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Arthur Melville

10 minute read

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William Strang

15 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Portraiture in Scotland

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Ed Ruscha- Learning Resource

15 minute read

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Scottish Art at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

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Douglas Gordon

20 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
David Young Cameron

10 minute read

Scottish Art Artists
Legend, Fantasy and Imagination

5 minute read

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Movements in Scottish Art

5 minute read

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Early Photography

10 minute read

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Landscape

10 minute read

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Louise Bourgeois Learning Resource

15 minute read

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The Art Works

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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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