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Picks of the month: the best design events in March 2021
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You might not know it yet, and lock-down means your opportunity to explore it fully will be sadly limited when you do, but Thursday is the inaugural Gray Day, the first of what organisers hope will become a significant annual event celebrating the life, work and legacy of Alasdair Gray. The iconic author, illustrator, poet and artist died aged 85 in 2019 and the plan is for Gray Day eventually to assume the same stature as its sort-of-namesake, Bloomsday. Named for Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s 1922 Modernist masterpiece Ulysses, it’s held in Dublin every June and sees Dubliners attend readings and enjoy street parties and pub crawls dressed as characters from the book. Aside from being a big tourist draw and driver of revenue, it’s taken very seriously as a cultural event: on Bloomsday in 1982, Irish broadcaster RTE marked the centenary of Joyce’s birth with a continuous 30-hour broadcast of the entire text of Ulysses.
Herald on Sunday letters: Scotland needs to follow the psychological science if is to win the Covid battle
Herald on Sunday letters: Scotland needs to follow the psychological science if is to win the Covid battle I WAS impressed by Helen McArdle s pointed article on the deficiencies of our self-isolation/quarantine system in contrast to those of many other countries and the crucial role these have played in the level of infection ( How Scotland’s ‘tougher’ quarantine hotels may restrict travel to England for months to come , January 31). There is more to be said. I recently had the misfortune to find myself in South Africa amidst the growing concern about the coronavirus variant. On flying back to Glasgow, I was relieved that PCR testing for returnees had belatedly been put in place, together with improved passenger locator procedures. I was duly contacted inside 24 hours by a pleasant woman who went through the protocol for self-isolation with me. What struck me fo
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You haven’t had enough of notable paintings in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, even after reading about 10 of them in a different list? You’re in luck! The National Galleries are the Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Located in Edinburgh, they display art by a wide range of artists working over a long period of time; this list highlights five more paintings from their collection of American and European paintings.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
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