GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART RECEIVES $180,000 “GLASGOW MIRACLE” RESEARCH GRANT

The BBC reports that Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Counci has awarded the Glasgow School of Art a grant of over $180,000 to investigate why its home city has arguably produced so many successful contemporary artists, a phenomenon once dubbed the “Glasgow miracle” by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Partnering with Glasgow’s Center for Contemporary Arts, the art school’s professors will use the grant to comb through a photographic and audio archive that dates back three decades. The funds will also support a series of interviews with artist who have made Glasgow the art center that it is. Glasgow School of Art director Seona Reid noted that the project was important because understanding the “Glasgow miracle” could lead to the “subsequent building of a local arts infrastructure” in the city.