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"National Galleries in £15m bid to build on Gardens"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Before anyone gets too excited, it's to build on a 5-m wide strip of grassy embankment in line with the current basement-level extension.
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I hope they leave a few metres at the south end in order to still be able to get a run-up to the bottom of the Playfair Steps.
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"...works by the likes of Henry Raeburn, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Eduardo Paolozzi."
If the National Gallery exhibits a Finlay I'll eat my hat. If it exhibits a Paolozzi I'll cast my hat in bronze and eat that.
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The National Galleries has a gallery full of Paolozzi works
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@cc
That's the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The National Gallery of Scotland takes itself infinitely more seriously. They recently showed one of the best paintings in the national collection - Ken Currie's Three Oncologists and it nearly killed them to do it.
I'll eat a bronze bebop hat if the Mound shows a Paolozzi.
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They recently showed one of the best paintings in the national collection - Ken Currie's Three Oncologists and it nearly killed them to do it.
Did I see that at the Portrait Gallery within the last year or so?Posted 9 years ago # -
Last five years, maybe? It was there in the ground floor gallery after the revamp...
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Wow, I had no idea the organisation was so balkanised :)
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@IWRATS surely the best painting in the national collection is Lady Agnew of Lochnaw.
Well I think it's the best, anyway...
...and it seems Phil Jupitus has rather similar reactions to her that I do.
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Oncologists good, was an exhibition of medical portraiture in portrait gallery not long ago.
In NGS my favourite is the White drake by crawhall. Not on display but in basement it is easy to see its glory (they also used to sell it as a poster too). Maybe they will stick it back on the walls. Also Verdonk by Frans Hals is a stoater and yon wifie making a fried egg by Yer Spanish genius Diego Velasquez
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I was rather aghast when I saw the Evening Snews headline. Appears it's basically to remove the grass bank and extend the building out within the same footprint.
danny by fountainbridge, on Flickr
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Sounds like we need a CCE outing to the Mound....should I organise that?
@Greenroofer
Lady Agnew is indeed gorgeous. She should really be hung in a room of her own....
@gembo
My favourite on the Mound is this. It is not of our age, but rewards close scrutiny on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. Who knew sin had fried eggs for eyes? Perhaps that is what Velasquez's old lady is preparing?
@cc
Balkanised? At least Serbia and Croatia acknowledge each other's existence.
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