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Renowned wildlife cameraman and photographer Raymond Besant will visit Aberdeen Art Gallery later this month as part of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition programme.
Raymond will take to the stage at the Cowdray Hall on Saturday 28 September at 2pm for a talk which sees him…
Visitors to Aberdeen’s historic Provost Skene’s House in Marischal Square can enhance their experience with a new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The guide is available in more than 25 languages, including Scots…
September is Scottish Archaeology Month and this coming Saturday, 14 September, Aberdeen Art Gallery is hosting a special one-day event including a family-friendly mini-archaeological dig and a series of fascinating talks highlighting the archaeological research being carried out in the North…
Aberdeen Art Gallery is one of three leading Scottish galleries to benefit from a new funding award. The William Syson Foundation Travel Fund supports school visits to galleries and museums across the country.
Along with Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow and the…
One of the most remarkable items kept by Aberdeen City Archives – the Montrose Letter – will go on display at Provost Skene’s House this week to coincide with the 380th anniversary of the Battle of Justice Mills, sometimes known as the ‘Battle of Aberdeen’.On 13 September 1644…
Lovers of live music are chord-ially invited to the weekly Lunchbreak Concerts series which returns to Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Cowdray Hall this month.The season opens on Thursday 12 September with North Sea Sketches by jazz duo Neil Birse and Matthew Kilner, presented…
Artists living in AB postcode areas are being invited by Aberdeen Art Gallery to submit proposals for funded Micro-Commissions. The opportunity is supported by the Friends of Aberdeen…
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums (AAGM) review of the year 2023-24 highlights the organisation’s impact on the wellbeing of the people of Aberdeen, the city’s cultural and…
The fifty-ninth Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is now open at Aberdeen Art Gallery. On loan from the Natural History Museum in London, the world-renowned exhibition features exceptional images which capture fascinating animal behaviour,…
The 50th anniversary of Peacock – a workshop for art, Aberdeen’s renowned print studio, is being marked with an exhibition of the New Aberdeen Bestiary at Aberdeen Art Gallery. The exhibition is the culmination of a three-year collaborative project involving Peacock printmakers and seven…
A striking ceramic pot by renowned artist Grayson Perry has gone on display for the first time at Aberdeen Art Gallery. The purchase has been supported by grants from Art Fund, Aberdeen Art Gallery Trusts and the National Fund for Acquisitions.
Flamboyant, forthright and funny, Sir Grayson…
Her Excellency Madame Hélène Duchêne, the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is just one of the many visitors Aberdeen Art Gallery has welcomed to the current special exhibition which celebrates the work of influential French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Aberdeen Art Gallery is the…