The imposing facade of Glenalmond College A £24, 000 a year exclusive Scottish school is in crisis talks about how to deal with the negative publicity surrounding a recent documentary aired on BBC 2. Glenalmond College, set in the beautiful Perthshire countryside is a very traditional private school for twelve to seventeen year olds. The [...]
Archive for December, 2008
The Art of War?
Posted in Napier, tagged Art, Campaign, Edinburgh, Gallery, Gentle, Iraq, McQueen, Ministry of Defence, Modern, Rose, Royal Mail, Stamp, Steve, Stop the War, War on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you receive something in the mail, would you want the visage of a soldier who perished in the Iraq war staring up at you from the stamp? This is the aim of official War artist Steve McQueen. In Edinburgh, the National Gallery of Modern Art has recently opened an exhibition by McQueen commemorating one [...]
Titian campaign has ‘considerable way to go’
Posted in Napier on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The campaign to save Titian’s ‘Diana and Acteon’ has ‘a considerable way to go’ states the National Gallery for Scotland’s director general, John Leighton. Diana and Acteon by Titian is a well loved painting which forms part of the Bridgewater collection in the National Gallery of Scotland. It is currently on show in the National [...]
