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• Public / Private Partnership: What crisis of legitimacy?

  by Leigh French

  Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art (Gi) which ran from April 11 to 27 2008 was said to be loosely based within the theme of ‘public/private’. It was also promo...

• Private Thoughts

  by Ruth Barker

  Private Thoughts and Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places; A free symposium presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

  That title is quite long, all things consi...

• Throwing Shapes

  by Rhona Warwick

  ‘I imagine a world of inexhaustible, unseen forms’
  - Malevich, 1915¹

  On a cold January morning in 1919, four years after Kasimir...

• Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes)

  by Will McLean

  Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes) was a community-based voluntary organisation formed in 1989 on the Island of Lewis in the Western Isles under the chairmanship of t...

• What Have We Learned About Public Art?

  by David Harding

  Public art has come a long way. What was an occasional event and called public sculpture is now ubiquitous and called public art. It was the recognition of the crucial role of context that gave...