Tags: Museum, GoMA, Glasgow, art
Date: 23 October 2006 20:09:40
Rather fabulously, HD was up for the weekend and, amongst lots of pottering and relaxing, we did manage just a little bit of culture - Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), which I'd visited when I came to the Glasgow Uni Postgrad Open Day over 2 years ago, but hadn't been back since I moved here.
I can't say there was anything in the collection that particularly grabbed me, other than Grayson Perry's vases, and nothing that I particularly hated either. Personally I think the best thing about it is the building - I must go back and take a picture looking up at the balconies just in the entrance, that makes a great view, and I like the swirly stained glass up the stairways. I'm also absolutely delighted that the Gallery's wikipedia entry includes a couple of pictures with the statue of Wellington at the front of the gallery complete with his somewhat informal headgear (whenever I go past GoMA on the #66 bus I always take a peak to see if he's got his hat or not) (today he didn't, but his horse did!).