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Fame by Frame: SFX Magazine on Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Bridget Riley, Intervals 2

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Horror and Harryhausen

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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

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An unusual spring

15 minute read

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

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Past event | Joan Eardley: A Private View

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

15 minute read

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

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From our archive | The Alan Davie Trio

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

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A Scottish tradition | JMW Turner and the Vaughan Bequest

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From our archive | When Andy Warhol illustrated a cookbook

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Then and Now: Images from Scotland’s Photograph Album

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Ten things you might not know about the Scottish National Gallery

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The MacKinnon Collection | Edinburgh exhibitions reviewed by The Scotsman

10 minute read

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

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A Brief History of Eerie, Ghostly and Unsettling Photography

10 minute read

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A life dedicated to art | Flora Macdonald Reid

10 minute read

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Charles Jencks, 1939-2019

10 minute read

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Penny Slinger | Collage is a naughty medium

15 minute read

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Through the Eyes of Bridget Riley

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Bridget Riley reviewed by The Telegraph's Mark Hudson

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

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Antony Gormley's 6 TIMES returns to Edinburgh

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Say it with flowers: the meaning of a rose

10 minute read

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

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

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Going global: How High-Steppers travelled the world

15 minute read

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Turner and the Poetics of Landscape

5 minute read

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THE WORK OF ART

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Titian

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Thomas Annan

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A Portrait of the Artist

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(Untitled) Butcher Boys

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Hill & Adamson

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Lee Miller

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Phoebe Anna Traquair

10 minute read

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Steven Campbell

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The Two Roberts

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Karla Black

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J.D Fergusson

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Machrihanish Bay
William McTaggart

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Uilleam Mac an t-Sagairt

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The Glasgow Boys

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Joan Eardley

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Nathan Coley

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F.C.B Cadell

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Arthur Melville

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The Etching Printer - William Strang, 1859 - 1921
William Strang

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