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Audio tour - Barbara Hepworth | Art & Life

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Alberta Whittle - solo exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2023

5 minute read

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Self-portrait, 1655 by Rembrandt van Rijn

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15 minute read

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10 minute read

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Christ Teacheth Humility
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10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Patricia NicDhòmhnaill | Beachdachadh air deigh ri leaghadh

10 minute read

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10 minute read

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Queer Lives & Art: Found Families

15 minute read

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Not Seeing Straight: Celebrating Queer Art

5 minute read

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A Key Painting by Peter Doig for Scotland

10 minute read

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The World's Edge | Cartography panel discussion

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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5 minute read

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Murray MacKinnon (1943-2021)

5 minute read

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Thomas Joshua Cooper podcast

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Fred Sandback - 'A drawing that is habitable’

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Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection | daguerreotypes

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Conservation of the MacKinnon Collection

5 minute read

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All Natural

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COP26 | Is culture the untapped ally for climate action?

10 minute read

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10 minute read

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New Arrivals podcast | Portrait of Max Ernst by Leonora Carrington

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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National Galleries of Scotland teams up with WWF on Great Scottish Canvas project

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Introducing the National Galleries of Scotland Environmental Response Plan

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80 Years of Music at National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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Robert Colquhoun, 1914 - 1962. Artist (Self-portrait)
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5 minute read

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Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography

10 minute read

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Monster Chetwynd | Prolific Potato

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Flowers on an Indian Cloth
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5 minute read

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Painting the Poets: In Conversation with Clae Eastgate

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

10 minute read

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Preserving pasts | Imagining futures

5 minute read

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Thomas Joshua Cooper musical commission written by Andrew Wasylyk

10 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Joan Eardley & Catterline panel discussion

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National BBQ Week

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10 things you probably didn't know about Joan Eardley

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Five artworks you need to know by LGBTQ+ artists

10 minute read

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When Marshall Julius met Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

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In Conversation with Ken Currie

10 minute read

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A spotlight on Adam Elsheimer

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10 minute read

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A Year of The Drawing Room online

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Hanna Tuulikki, SING SIGN: a close duet

10 minute read

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Joan Eardley podcast

5 minute read

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Frances Macdonald MacNair, Bows

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Disappearing Glasgow

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Iain Stewart's selection from You Are Here

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

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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Fame by Frame: SFX Magazine on Ray Harryhausen

10 minute read

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Henry Vaughan – ‘A great Turner man’

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Bridget Riley, Intervals 2

10 minute read

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GIF it a go!

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

5 minute read

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Revised completion date for the Scottish National Gallery Project

5 minute read

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Marc Chagall, L’Écuyère (The Horse Rider)

10 minute read

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Gwen John, Portrait of a Girl in Grey

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Digital art in a time of virus

15 minute read

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15 minute read

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

10 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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MacKinnon Collection | Cataloguing Dawn of Light and Liberty

10 minute read

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

15 minute read

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10 minute read

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

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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Talk | Maggie Craig - Scotland’s Forgotten Heroes

10 minute read

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5 minute read

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15 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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

15 minute read

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10 minute read

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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

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From our archive | Toyen

5 minute read

Blog Learning
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5 minute read

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10 minute read

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From our archive | Artist book of proverbs

5 minute read

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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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5 minute read

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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

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

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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A delicate White Drake by a Glasgow Boy

5 minute read

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Publication celebrates work of collage artists from across the globe

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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From our archive | The Alan Davie Trio

5 minute read

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The Dark and Light of Being in Love

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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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

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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

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The MacKinnon Collection | Scottish sport between 1840 and 1940

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
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

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

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Casting the Doctor

5 minute read

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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

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The MacKinnon Collection | Love is all around

10 minute read

Blog 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
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10 minute read

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10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Depicting Scotland

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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The MacKinnon Collection | Edinburgh exhibitions reviewed by The Scotsman

10 minute read

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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

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Our statement on Edinburgh's Christmas Market

5 minute read

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A Brief History of Eerie, Ghostly and Unsettling Photography

10 minute read

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The Scottish National Gallery Project: Meet the team

5 minute read

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A life dedicated to art | Flora Macdonald Reid

10 minute read

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Art conservation | How are frames chosen?

10 minute read

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Curator’s Top Ten: Scottish landscapes

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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The Scottish National Gallery on screen

5 minute read

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Fresh Produce | Maps showcase

5 minute read

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Views of Beauty: A Day in Edinburgh

5 minute read

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Maps and Imagination

10 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Cold War Steve

5 minute read

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Penny Slinger | Collage is a naughty medium

15 minute read

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Activities for all at the National Galleries of Scotland

10 minute read

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A Day out in Edinburgh

5 minute read

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Dogs at the Scottish National Gallery

5 minute read

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5 minute read

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Top 10 Instagram Spots at the National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

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Top 5 celebrity spots

5 minute read

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Smartify | Artwork recognition for your phone

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Inspiring Journals Competition

5 minute read

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Through the Eyes of Bridget Riley

10 minute read

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Collage competition

5 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Fresh Produce

15 minute read

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Bridget Riley reviewed by The Telegraph's Mark Hudson

10 minute read

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Podcast series | The Making of a Portrait

10 minute read

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Visiting Antony Gormley’s 6 TIMES

10 minute read

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Discover James Watt at the National Galleries of Scotland

10 minute read

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5 minute read

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Cut and Paste | Life in Collage

10 minute read

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Accessible path in East Princes Street Gardens is now open

5 minute read

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Say it with flowers: the meaning of a rose

10 minute read

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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

10 minute read

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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

10 minute read

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Halloween | Terrifying tales from the National Galleries of Scotland

15 minute read

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The Hand!

5 minute read

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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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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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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

10 minute read

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Fille née sans mère [Girl Born without a Mother]
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10 minute read

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Phrenology in the nineteenth century

10 minute read

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

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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Salvador Dalí and Edward James, Lobster Telephone

10 minute read

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The convergence of the Belle Époque

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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

10 minute read

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Baby's first artwork

10 minute read

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We Will Remember Them

20 minute read

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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

5 minute read

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Oskar Kokoschka, Posy Croft

5 minute read

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Raqib Shaw, Self Portrait with Fireflies and Faces

5 minute read

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New Towns to Tokyo

5 minute read

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

5 minute read

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Vast interiors

5 minute read

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When you were young

5 minute read

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Inspired by Civilisations: The Vital Spark?

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Dancers at the Moulin Rouge
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Inspired by Civilisations: First Contact

5 minute read

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Photographing Children

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Man of Sorrows
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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?

5 minute read

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Michael Begg | A Moon that Lights Itself

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Photographing Family

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2018 exhibition programme

5 minute read

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Edinburgh photographers inspired to create their own Self Evidence

10 minute read

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10 minute read

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Beyond Ada: Celebrating Women in Science

10 minute read

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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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Razor’s Edge Barbershop

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The Photographers, the Kirkyard and the Poltergeist

5 minute read

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A Portrait Group
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10 minute read

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Looking Good in Neckwear

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Views of Little Sparta

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The Blank Slate is a Man-Made Myth

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Constable's Clouds

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

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The Sackening

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Spectacles for Viewing Spectacles

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10 minute read

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2017 at the National Galleries of Scotland

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Volunteer Voice: Samantha

3 minute read

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A Painted Stag and Skooshy Cream

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Meeting Your (Super) Heroes

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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

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A Date with Mr Darcy?

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

5 minute read

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Jamie Murray, b.1986, and Andy Murray, b. 1987, Tennis Players
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10 minute read

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Tracing the origins of Surrealism

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

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Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864 - 1932)
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