Very pleased to see you're back

Such an interesting talk this afternoon @nationalgalleriesscot 🎨 Art historian Leslie Primo @artfirstprimo speaking about how foreign artists, like John de Critz, invented British art. Different words belong to different times, in the 16th C they would have been termed 'strangers' not 'foreign'

Author and journalist Peter Ross speaking about his research into graveyards and monuments today @nationalgalleriesscot 🪦 A Tomb with a View The talk responds to Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful installation, Gravestones which is on display @nationalgalleriesscot until 2 November.

What a treat! Screening: Paper Portraits @nationalgalleriesscot 🎥Community collab w/ Gerda Stevenson. A poetic tribute to the millworkers. Pencuik paper was a global commodity. It fuelled Edinburgh's publishing industry, Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, Turner used it 📚 @community_arts_penicuik

Beautiful laid back voice, guitar and accordion folk recital @nationalgalleriesscot this evening 🎸🪗🎶 @heathercartwrightmusic & @bigmabbox Programmed w/ @livemusicnowscotland ❤️🙏 Tiny castle courtesy of Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag 1786

Fascinating conversation about the life and loves of King James VI/ I today @nationalgalleriesscot between authors @steven.veerapen.3 & @_garethrussell Queering James 👑 #theworldofkingjames

Amazing, not often we have an Olympic champion speaking @nationalgalleriesscot🥇‼️ Insightful conversation between Prof @fionaskillen Deputy Director Imogen Gibbon w/ Olympic medal holder Team GB Curler Rhona Howie whose team portrait is part of the National Galleries collection 🥌🥌🥌

Part of a 3D sculpted map of central Glasgow created by Kathleen Chambers in 1990 to help visually impaired people to explore the city. This section shows the buildings around Buchanan Street, which can also be seen in real life just behind it. #glasgow #sculpture #buchananstreet #architecture

Always brilliant, a passionate argument in favour of resistance by @garyyounge @nationalgalleriesscot The talk marks the opening of the Resistance photography exhibition at Modern Two 📸 Co-curated by artist/filmmaker Steve McQueen, the exhibition documents 100 years of popular protests in Britain.

Brilliant talk today @nationalgalleriesscot by Senior Researcher Lola Conte @forensicarchitecture on their methodology for investigations and popular protests. Presented as part of @archifringe

This feels timely. Lola Conte will speak about @forensicarchi.bsky.social interdisciplinary investigations. Presented as part of this year’s @archifringe.bsky.social 📆 12.45-1.30pm, Tue 17 June 🎟️ Free 📍 At the National and online via YouTube 🎫 What's On listings: www.nationalgalleries.org/whats-on

An artist, a scientist and an art historian give a talk... @geologicnotes Dr Claire Cousins and @catrionamcara share their brilliant collaborative work in progress today @nationalgalleriesscot Finding kinship, geological conglomerates Watch it back here: www.youtube.com/live/yLqAJEX...

📢 Job Opportunity Part-time mat leave cover opportunity for Youth Engagement professional: www.weareupland.com/opportunitie... Come join the brilliant Upland team 💚 Deadline: 30 April #dumfriesandgalloway

Karen Livingstone, Deputy Director of Fitzwilliam Museum speaking about her beautiful new publication Women Pioneers of the Arts & Crafts Movement (V&A) today @nationalgalleriesscot A necessary history as 'minimal if any references' can be found for these pioneering women artists 🎨

Music is good for the soul 🎶 @thefountaineers brilliant performance celebrating transatlantic roots of bluegrass and old timey music this evening @nationalgalleriesscot Loved their beautiful version of WB Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree ❤️💚 Detail of Niagara Falls courtesy of Frederick Church, 1867

Sara Shackleton's residential Margaret Morris Movement course, 11-14 April in beautiful #DumfriesandGalloway Contact for info.

Reminder to submit your proposals for the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2025: The Arts of Integrating! Our theme for next year is May Peace Prevail. Full details: bit.ly/RIELASpring25 Deadline for applications: 28 January @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social

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Spooky in various states of melt 🖤 #caturday

Happy New Year to ye all xx 🐈‍⬛🖤

The Radical Pend, site of the Battle of Bonnybridge 1820 Invigorating winter walk followed by a pint 🍻

Did you do "Digital Humanities" as part of your undergrad or postgrad in the UK or Ireland? We're trying to see where graduates from DH end up! Please tell us your journey in the 1st ever Career Destination Survey for Students from UK/Ie DH Programmes and Trainings forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D

Engaging lunchtime talk today @natgalleriessco Curator Tico Siefert telling the story of how this incredible collection of early Netherlandish drawings came to be at Chatsworth House ✍️

Lovely conversation this evening @natgalleriessco between writer @sarasheridanwriter and @annielyden about Sara's latest novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square Picture 1. Annie, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sara Picture 2. Annie, Sara & Hill & Adamson's studio assistant Jessie Mann (probably) 📸

🧵 Join us for 2 great events coming up at @NatGalleriesSco next week: Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond 12.45pm Tue 12 Nov. #Architects Fiona McLachlan @EdinburghUni & Will McLean @UniWestminster 🎟️in-person & online: tinyurl.com/3yhdr69u 1/2

A gorgeous recital this evening @natgalleriessco by @theatelierensemble recital includes Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Morricone's theme from The Mission 🎶❤️💚 @livemusicnowscotland 19th C exhibition detail courtesy of Scottish School, Interior of the National Gallery 1868-72

Margarita time 🍸🍋‍🟩 @darkartdistillery Out of office on ☑️

A couple of years ago I had the absolute joy of working with the amazing harpist Rachel Newton to create a new piece of #Gaelic music in response to the Scottish artworks in the National Galleries of Scotland collection.

Sights from an Easter walk 🥚

Great musical start to the year with @mairimcgillivraymusic and @katiebethallen @natgalleriessco this evening #HNY2024 🎻🎶 They are part of the @livemusicnowscotland network of musicians 🌈 Rainbow courtesy of Frederic Edwin Church, (detail) Niagara 1867

Looking forward to diving into this over Christmas 📚🩷 Thank you @sarasheridan.bsky.social and Hodder & Stoughon for the advance copy #thesecretsofblythswoodsquare 📸