Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

by WBlackwell on November 26, 2022

Has been thrilling Glaswegians and visitors for 122 years. A must, must see.

There is this in the bus terminal.  I’ve been told that the position of the woman’s legs indicate this is a reunion homecoming not departure. Agreed.

By the museum

Yup

The Harpies were fierce, filthy, winged monsters who had characteristics of a bird and a woman, similar to that of the early Sirens. Their hideous faces of women with sharp claws mounted on the bodies of vultures inspired both horror and disgust. They could fly as fast as a bolt of lightening. “The Harpy Celaeno”, by Mary Pownall

A different angle of the Floating Heads has been my screensaver for years

Memorial To A Marriage (2002) is the first marriage equality monument worldwide.

Created by American artist Patricia Cronin as part of a series of works redressing the absence of female and LGBTQ+ representation in public monuments and the prohibition of same sex marriage in the United States, this three-ton Carrara marble monumental statue is a double full figure portrait of the artist and her then partner (now wife) artist Deborah Kass, recumbent embracing on an inclined mattress, on a shared pillow in marital bliss and eternal rest.  As an act of political resistance of being denied representation in public civic space by municipal leadership and denied personal liberty by the federal government,

James Hamilton’s Massacre at Glencoe

Motherless Child by George Anderson Lawson

How long before you recognized the song?

Apparently the UK’s biggest iceskating rink this season

And the walk back to the hotel would have take less time if I didn’t stop so often.  But then again, I was in no rush

Unconscionable!  One thing to place a cone on the Duke as he worn one in battle so his men could always know where he was, but on Charlie! Hell no

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