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Talks & Lectures | Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations

5 minute read

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The World's Edge | Thomas Joshua Cooper in conversation

10 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Lessons of the Hour | Isaac Julien in conversation with Celeste-Marie Bernier

10 minute read

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Find Your Surreal

10 minute read

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Ruined | Reinventing Scottish History

5 minute read

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Not Seeing Straight: Celebrating Queer Art

5 minute read

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Queer Creatures

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
COP26 | Is culture the untapped ally for climate action?

10 minute read

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Tam Dean Burn | Mask Made

20 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Monster Chetwynd | Prolific Potato

5 minute read

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Who was...

5 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Joan Eardley & Catterline panel discussion

5 minute read

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Art in the open | At home

5 minute read

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Talk | Sorcha Dallas - Alasdair Gray Magnificent Citizen

5 minute read

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Discovering Harryhausen

5 minute read

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Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery

10 minute read

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Visually Impaired Tour | Scottish National Gallery Highlights

5 minute read

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Listen | Thomas Joshua Cooper musical commission written by Andrew Wasylyk

10 minute read

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Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema | Women in Animation panel discussion

5 minute read

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What is...

5 minute read

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New Arrivals podcast | Bachelorette by France-Lise McGurn

5 minute read

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Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

10 minute read

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New Arrivals podcast | Portrait of Max Ernst by Leonora Carrington

5 minute read

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Preserving pasts | Imagining futures

5 minute read

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Mahtab Hussain | You Get Me?

10 minute read

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Scotland's Art | In Focus

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
New Arrivals podcast | At the Edge of Town by Peter Doig

5 minute read

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Joan Eardley podcast

5 minute read

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Climate Action Needs Culture

5 minute read

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Scotland's art | Styles and schools

5 minute read

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Danny North | As I Found Her: A Portrait of Eigg

10 minute read

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Questions about art

5 minute read

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The World's Edge | Cartography panel discussion

5 minute read

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Dismal Thoughts | Thomas Carlyle on Race

5 minute read

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Katie Paterson, Future Library: A Century Unfolds, 2019

10 minute read

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The Clearing - A Memoir of Invisible Light: Author Talk With Samantha Clark

5 minute read

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Mindfulness and Art | British Sign Language (BSL) videos

5 minute read

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Film | Richard Demarco remembers Strategy: Get Arts fifty years on

10 minute read

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Visually Impaired Tour | Portrait Gallery Highlights

30 minute read

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Dr Elsie Maud Inglis | A Scottish Superhero

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Gallery Social | for anyone affected by dementia

5 minute read

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In the Mind’s Eye

5 minute read

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Richard Demarco | 90th birthday interview

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Artistic Partnerships

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | The Artist and Travel

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Depicting Scotland

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Representing Women

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Identity

5 minute read

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Podcast series | The Making of a Portrait

10 minute read

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15,000 photographs of Scotland | Introducing the MacKinnon Collection

10 minute read

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Snapchats | Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe

10 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Audio and Video
Visually Impaired Tour | Sculpture Park

30 minute read

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Artists in Profile

15 minute read

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THE WORK OF ART

30 minute read

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