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GoMA, on Royal Exchange Square, is now the most visited modern and contemporary art museum in Scotland. It opened to the public on March 30, 1996 and was formally opened by HM The Queen on July 3 the same year. GoMA has a unique position in Glasgow as a collecting institution of contemporary art, as a civic space that is enjoyed by a broad demographic of visitors, and as a key tourist attraction for the city. Since 1996, it has staged more than 200 exhibitions with diverse artists from all over the world. While the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are in place GoMA remains closed and has...

Richard Saltoun opens the first exhibition in a 12-month programme dedicated to Hannah Arendt Vivienne Koorland, Terezin Painting: Josef, 1991. Oil on linen set into wood mantel, 139.7 x 152.4 x 20.3 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Richard Saltoun Gallery. LONDON .- ‘On Hannah Arendt: The Modern Age’ takes its title from the first chapter of Arendt’s 1968 book Between Past and Future. In the preface, Arendt links thinking together with remembrance and storytelling. Remembrance is understood by Arendt to be one of the most important “modes of thought,” one that requires storytelling in ord...

Jo Spence and Terry Dennett’s series, Remodelling Photo History, from 1982. It is such a smart, funny and almost cutting series. I was fortunate to be a part of a small team working on Spence’s first UK retrospective at Studio Voltaire and SPACE in 2012, 20 years after her death. She has been such an important figure in both my professional and personal life. If you are not familiar with her practice, I would urge you to be. Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world? I was 15 when Dennis Potter’s Lipstick on Your Collar appeared on Channel 4 in 1993. It was full of...

Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a 12-month programme of exhibitions dedicated to the writings of Hannah Arendt Siah Armajani, Gazebo for Two Anarchists: Emilio Coda and Richard Henry Dana, 1991. Stained balsa wood, 30.5 x 59.7 x 24 cm. Image courtesy Rossi & Rossi and the artist. LONDON .-Richard Saltoun Gallery announced a 12-month programme of exhibitions dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). Since the gallery’s inception in 2012, Richard Saltoun has sought to shed light on difficult questions concerning inequality and id...