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Artist Sets Guinness World Record for Largest Sock Monkey
Emilia Evans-Munton, a Glasgow School of Art graduate, said she made the giant sculpture as an “ode to the toys that are left behind.”
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Man Behind “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” Put on Sex Offender Registry
William Coull admitted to repeatedly sending unsolicited explicit messages to a woman between March and July.
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Man Dies After Fall From Glasgow Museum Balcony
The Gallery of Modern Art was shuttered for the remainder of the day.
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Viral Wonka Experience Backdrop Sold to Benefit Palestine Aid
The disastrous Glasgow event that took the internet by storm in February just keeps on giving, this time for a good cause.
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Children “In Tears” at Disastrous Wonka Factory “Experience”
AI images were used to sell tickets to a Chocolate Factory event that should have remained in pure imagination.
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Here’s Your Chance to Stay for Free at Shrek’s Swamp
Pack your bogs, it’s time for a really iconic swamp-cation.
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Michelangelo’s “David” Deemed Too Explicit for Subway Ad
Just weeks after the Florida school debacle, an Italian restaurant in Scotland had to edit out the marble statue’s crotch.
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The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions
Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.
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X-Ray of Van Gogh Painting Reveals Hidden Self-Portrait
A portrait of the bearded Dutch master was found under cardboard backing and glue on the reverse side of the 1885 work “Head of a Peasant Woman.”
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Climate Activists Glue Themselves to a Van Gogh at London Gallery
In another action yesterday, five members of the group were arrested after they glued themselves to a landscape painting in Scotland.
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Glasgow Museums Will Repatriate 17 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Also slated for return are seven Indian artifacts and 25 Lakota items, some of them seized from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
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This Watercolor Is One of the Earliest Depictions of a Black Woman Living in Scotland
The painting by David Allan has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.