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 had to postpone some of the exhibitions planned to take place during this milestone year, turning instead to an ongoing programme of ‘GoMA at Home’ online activities, talks and workshops over the coming months.
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If Sir Paul Mac, who has a mildly eccentric new elpee out “rite” now, had not gone on to become unfathomably famous, successful, and rightly revered as one of the true immortals of all music, then perhaps he would have been as wildly eccentric as some of those he championed. McCartney (1970) has a properly eccentric core that only perhaps a self-preservation instinct towards fame has tempered. Think – one third of his solo output is dedicated to whimsical doodles (McCartney, McCartney II, half of Wild Life, half of Ram etc). Had Fabness not intervened, Paul’s life and career may have been more akin to some of his proteges: the Bonzos, Ivor Cutler, and the subject of this column’s all-too-brief forage, Bruce Lacey.