The Frist Art Museum will present Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, an immersive exhibition that showcases Charles Rennie Mackintosh-the greatest exponent of the Glasgow Style-as an architect, designer, and artist, and contextualizes his production within a larger circle of designers and craftspeople in Scotland s largest city. Co-organized by Glasgow Museums and the American Federation of Arts, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist s Ingram Gallery from June 11 through September 12, 2021.
At the end of the 19th century, the Glasgow Style emerged as the major manifestation of Art Nouveau in Britain. Combining influences from the Arts and Crafts movement, Celtic Revival, and Japonism, Glasgow artists created their own modern design aesthetic, synonymous with sleek lines and emphatic geometries expressed in a wide range of materials.
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From La Scala to Vogue: When Glasgow had more cinemas per person than any city outside America IT was an era when Glasgow truly was Cinema City, when enterprising youngsters would take orders for fish suppers from people queuing outside the 130 picture-houses then in operation. It s startling to recall, in these days of hugely popular streaming services, and with multiplexes currently shuttered because of Covid-related precautions, it is thought that in the 1930s and 1940s Glasgow had more cinemas per person than any city outwith North America. Toledo They had such names as the Paramount, on Renfield Street, La Scala, on Sauchiehall Street, Arcadia, Mecca and Vogue. The Toledo, at Muirend, was noted for the Spanish-American influence on its hacienda-style windows.
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The work of acclaimed Scots artist and writer Alasdair Gray is to be celebrated in the first ever Gray Day. It is hoped the event will become an annual commemoration of the life and work of one of Scotland’s most important cultural polymaths, Alasdair Gray. The first will take place on Thursday - marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of his seminal novel Lanark. Known faces including Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney and Ewen Bremner are set to be involved for the first Gray Day event, featuring a broadcast at 7.30pm.
Alasdair Gray at his desk April 2019 Alasdair Gray, 2019 photo Alan Dimmick