New Documentary About Glaswegian Art From 1985 Announced – Clare Henry
Personality, passion, and imagination are essential for any artist or teacher. Sam Ainsley and David Harding have it in spades….
1 April 2025
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Pay Rise For GSA Director Amid Salary Cuts In Many Art Schools – Clare Henry
By rights, Glasgow School Art Director Penny Macbeth should be having a busy summer. At Glasgow’s Mackintosh conference…
20 July 2024
Art Flourishes at GSA Despite Mackintosh Building Veiled in Plastic – Clare Henry
It’s a long time since I braved a visit to (GSA) Glasgow School of Art. Since the two tragic fires, a nightmare-burnt edifice covered in scaffolding and now shrouded in a white veil of plastic…
13 February 2024
Penny Macbeth Appointed New Glasgow School of Art Director
Penny Macbeth has been appointed as the new director of the Glasgow School of Art. Following a tumultuous week of uncertainty, as reported by Clare Henry on Artlyst, the institution has been in flux needing a pair of safe hands to sort it out.
26 February 2020
Mackintosh Museum Closure Highlights A Culture Of Complacency – Clare Henry
Today’s terrible news, a local Glasgow council is closing Mackintosh’s iconic Scotland Street School Museum. I despair. Soon there will be nothing Mackintosh left in Glasgow. Ironically the city needs Mackintosh as a focal point for culture and tourism. Glasgow’s love affair with Mackintosh is far from over.
22 February 2020
Glasgow School Of Art: A Burnt-Out Toxic Culture – Clare Henry
There have been few iconic institutions more beloved that Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art.
16 February 2020
Glasgow School Of Art Destroyed In Second Devastating Blaze
Fire crews have spent a third day at the scene of the latest fire to hit the historic Glasgow School of Art.
17 June 2018
Glasgow Girls: Artists Heavily Engaged In Social Comment – Clare Henry
One Hundred years after the suffragette movement which culminated in women gaining the right to vote, it feels like this may finally be the year for Women and with International Women’s Day this week, let’s celebrate. So what about artists labelled GIRLS – and even worse, “Glasgow Girls?
5 March 2018
Mackintosh Restoration Project Boosted By Historic Massachusetts Cotton Mill Discovery
The Mackintosh Building project at The Glasgow School of Art has been given a boost due to the discovery of identical pine wood sourced as salvage from a Massachusetts cotton mill.
4 August 2017
Turner Prize Winners Unite To Help Fund Glasgow School Of Art Fire
Several Turner Prize Winners including Antony Gormley Anish Kapoor and Grayson Perry have created artworks from found material taken from the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art to raise funds for the restoration.
29 January 2017
Restoration After The Glasgow School of Art Fire To Cost £35m
Restoration of the Glasgow School of Art building which suffered a massive fire last Spring has escalated to £35 million…. Read More
19 November 2015
Mackintosh Fire: Restoration Architects Announced By Glasgow School of Art
A team led by Page & Park Architects has been approved for the restoration of the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building… Read More
31 March 2015
Mackintosh Building At Glasgow School Of Art Restoration Shortlist Announced
The shortlist to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art has been announced. The… Read More
9 January 2015
First Minister’s Christmas Card Resurrected From Glasgow School Of Art Fire
A festive creation that survived the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) fire has been chosen as the Scottish First Minister’s… Read More
17 December 2014
Student’s Degree Show Caused The Fire That Destroyed Glasgow School Of Art’s Building
For many an art student, the creation of their degree show is not only a defining moment in what could… Read More
27 November 2014
Glasgow School Of Art’s Phoenix Bursary To Aid Student Fire Victims
In May of this year when the now infamous fire that broke out devastated Glasgow School of Art’s iconic Mackintosh… Read More
6 November 2014
Book Donations For Glasgow School Of Art Library After Fire
The blaze at the prestigious school, which happened in June, caused extensive damage to the famous Mackintosh building and destroyed… Read More
17 September 2014
Sajid Javid Pledges £5 million For Glasgow School of Art Restoration
Sajid Javid, the Culture Secretary has visited the fire damaged Glasgow School of Art. The building designed by Charles Rennie… Read More
28 July 2014
Glasgow School Of Art: Public Appeal To Replace Burned Books
The Glasgow school of Art have begun an appeal to replace books that were in demand before the tragic fire… Read More
20 July 2014
Lost Glasgow School Of Art Degree Show Recreated From Ash
I felt that there was something very fitting and beautiful in the use of a material born out of destruction… Read More
3 July 2014
Glasgow School of Art Proceeds With Degree Shows Despite Fire
The Glasgow School of Art will proceed with Degree Show for students of Design and Architecture as planned, with special… Read More
3 June 2014
Fire Crews Save C R Mackintosh Glasgow School Of Art Building
Fire crews have saved The Glasgow School Of Art, a masterpiece of 20th century architecture by Charles Rennie Macintosh. The… Read More
24 May 2014
Glasgow School Of Art Appoints Professor Tom Inns As New Director
Professor Tom Inns has been appointed the new director of the Glasgow School of Art. Inns, who is currently Dean… Read More
3 May 2013
Glasgow School Funded To Investigate Art Miracle
Glasgow School of Art have received £122,500 to investigate why city has produced so many artists – the so-called… Read More
19 January 2012