Glasgow art attack
Since reinventing itself as a cutting edge cultural centre in recent years, Glasgow has become a destination city on the world art scene.
- “Think Manhattan with a Scottish Accent.” In Style Magazine, USA
- “Brimming with style and culture, Scotland’s biggest city is a revelation.” Time
- “Where art meets design, fashion and music in a sharp undercurrent of creativity.” Wallpaper*
With more than 20 galleries and museums, many free and showing the work of Glasgow's internationally celebrated artists, the city is making contemporary art accessible to a wider audience.
The unpretentious Gallery of Modern Art is the second most visited contemporary art gallery outside of London and showcases the City of Glasgow's impressive collection.
Notable artists include Peter Howson, Ross Sinclair, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Byrne, Christine Borland, Adrian Wiszniewski, Kenny Hunter and Ken Currie. It also displays the work of local children and adult groups created in workshops run by the education department.
Children and families are welcome at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, which re-opened in 2001 after a £10.5 million refurbishment, and includes five exhibition and performance rooms, a small independent cinema and restaurant and bar. It is the home of experimental film, sound and music as well as more traditional creative arts. Well-known names to have exhibited include Glasgow favourites Ross Sinclair, Toby Paterson and Kenny Hunter.
The Lighthouse (Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City), the Tramway (a huge innovative industrial art space), the Modern Institute (a fashionable tenement gallery) and the bohemian Cultural Quarter are all creative highlights of this regenerated city.
Things really started to change for Glasgow during its reign as Cultural Capital of Europe in 1990. In 2005 the city of Glasgow attracted 2.8 million visitors who generated £700 million for the local economy. No-one could visit Glasgow without hitting the shops. Buchanan Street, the city's main shopping street, has been named as one of the world's top retail destinations along with the likes of New York's Fifth Avenue, London's New Bond Street and the Champs Elysées in Paris. There are currently over 8,000 hotel bedrooms available within a 10-mile radius of the city centre.
Written by: Maxine Clarke
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