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One of art’s great mysteries is on the way to being solved following the initial finding of a four-year research project focusing on one of Glasgow Museums’ most famous paintings. Lady in a Fur Wrap is renowned as one of the finest portraits to be produced in Europe during the late 16 th century, but remains unsigned. Up until now the painting of a young woman gazing at the viewer while wrapped in a fur robe, which has hung in Pollok House in Glasgow since 1967, has been attributed to Spanish Renaissance master, El Greco (1514-1561). After more than 100 years of debate, however, historians and scientists have applied state-of-art techniques to declare the painting to be the work of another Spanish artist, Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531-1588). This conclusion is the result of extensive scientific detective work carried out by experts at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and later at the University of Glasgow in partnership with Glasgow Museums. Investigations began while the painting was

A major private collection of more than 70 works of American contemporary art as well as works from Mexico and Japan is set to open in Glasgow this month. A Gift to Glasgow from New York: The Phillip A. Bruno Collection is the first of two exhibitions set to take place at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian gallery to coincide with New York-based curator and collector Phillip A. Bruno’s 90 th birthday. A series of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints drawn from a collection built up over 70 years by the former co-director of the New York-based Staempfli Gallery and Marlborough Gallery will include work by American artists such as William Dole, Lee Gatch and Red Grooms, as well as key works by Mexican painter Jose Luis Cuevas and Japanese Sculptor Masayuki Nagare. “I’ve been very interested in the art world in Glasgow,” says Bruno, “and through a series of connections, one thing led to another, and now we’re bringing the work to Scotland.” Over his sixty-year caree

It has been confirmed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh that Inverleith House, contained within its grounds, will no longer be used as a contemporary artspace. This comes after thirty years as a gallery, in which, under the curatorship of Paul Nesbitt, Inverleith House became a pioneering venue that showed early work by many Scottish artists alongside a bold international programme which has consistently sat alongside a parallel programme of botanical-based work. Inverleith House has also presented more exhibitions by Turner Prize winners and nominees than any other gallery in the UK apart from the Tate Gallery in London. The gallery's current exhibition, I still believe in miracles... closes this weekend on October 23rd, after which the building's future is uncertain. In a statement released on October 18th, RBGE said that ' After considerable consideration the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has accepted that, in the interests of prioritising its core miss