Gallery of Modern Art

GoMA's façade on Queen Street

Statue of the Duke of Wellington with traffic cone

The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( c Traffic cones, also called toddlers, road cones, safety cones, construction cones, pylons, Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. GoMA displays work by local and international artists as well as addressing contemporary social issues through its major biannual projects.

Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as the townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord, the building has undergone a series of different uses. Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in many other countries a townhouse (or a "house in town" was a residence of a peer or member of the The Tobacco Lords (or “ Virginia Dons ” were Glasgow merchants who in the 18th Century made enormous fortunes by trading in tobacco from Great Britain's It was bought in 1817 by the Royal Bank of Scotland who later moved onto Buchanan Street; it then became the Royal Exchange. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc ( Scottish Gaelic: Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Buchanan Street is one of the main shopping thoroughfares in Glasgow, the largest City in Scotland. Reconstruction for this use was undertaken by David Hamilton between 1827 and 1832 and resulted in many additions to the building, namely the Corinthian pillars to the Queen Street facade, the cupola above and the large hall to the rear of the old house. David Hamilton ( May 11, 1768 &ndash December 5, 1843) was a Scottish Architect based in Glasgow.

In 1954, Glasgow District Libraries moved the Stirling's Library into the building. When library returned to Miller Street, the building was refurbished to house the city's contemporary art collection.

Since its opening in 1996, the gallery has hosted several million visitors. It has a dedicated Education and Access studio, facilitating workshops and artists talks and in the basement a Learning Library. The building also contains a café, free Internet access terminals, multimedia, art, and general book-lending facilities. Exhibits include works by David Hockney, Sebastiao Salgado, and Andy Warhol as well as Scottish artists such as John Bellany and Ken Currie. David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937 is an English Artist, based in Los Angeles California, United States Sebastião Salgado (born February 8 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a Brazilian documentary photographer For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol John Bellany CBE, RA (born 18 June 1942) is a Scottish painter Ken Currie (born 1960 North Shields, England) is a Scottish painter one of the most influential living artists in Scotland.

Outside the Gallery stands an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington which is usually seen to have a traffic cone on its head. An equestrian statue is a Statue of a Horse -mounted rider The term is from the Latin " eques," meaning " Knight Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( c Traffic cones, also called toddlers, road cones, safety cones, construction cones, pylons, For many years the authorities regularly removed cones, only for them to be replaced. The jauntily placed cone has come to represent, particularly in tourist guidebooks, the city's light-hearted attitude to authority. One exception was on the occasion of Glasgow hosting the 2002 UEFA Champions League final, when the cone was replaced by a football-patterned hat bearing the logo of one of the tournament sponsors, Amstel. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup is a seasonal club Heineken is a Dutch 5% abv Pale lager, made by Heineken International since 1873

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