Comprehensive Survey of Surrealist Art Opens at the Dean Gallery

EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which brings together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, which is the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s 50th anniversary celebrations, offers a fascinating overview of arguably the most important art movement of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes major loans from public and private collections and offers visitors the [...]

Richard Wright’s Most Complex Painting to Date Unveiled at the Dean Gallery

LONDON.- The most complex and ambitious painting to date by 2009 Turner prize-winner, Richard Wright, was unveiled today, 30 June 2010. One of three major artworks commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival with support from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the painting is located in the west stairwell of the Dean Orphan Hospital, now the Dean Gallery, which is part of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The striking black on white design was created in an [...]

National Galleries of Scotland Announce Overview of Surrealist Movement

EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which will bring together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, will be the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, which will be the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s 50th anniversary celebrations, will offer a fascinating overview of arguably the most important art movement of the twentieth century. The exhibition will include major loans from public and private [...]

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Re-Hangs its Collection

EDINBURGH.- For the first time in twenty-five years the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will be re-hung in its entirety to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. Opening during the Homecoming Scotland Finale Celebrations, the display will reveal the richness and range of the collection in a series of rooms which aim to delight and surprise. Since its opening in Inverleith House in 1960, in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens, its move to a larger building on Belford Road [...]