Glasgow School of Art - Devastating Fire

Glasgow School of Art http://www.gsa.ac.uk/

Our hearts go out to the Glasgow School of Art, which suffered a catastrophic fire last Friday. We understand that the archives have been saved, but not the historic old library.  The fire is a tragedy for Glasgow and for the international art community.

Follow the aftermath, the start of the clean-up, and the fundraising on the GSA Twitter account here.

 FUNDRAISING UPDATE

The Big Idea

"Following the fire in the Mackintosh Building, the Governors, Staff and Students of The Glasgow School of Art have been touched by the many generous offers of financial support. This fund is a mechanism by which you can support an unrestricted fund to enable the GSA to respond to this sad event."

Fundraising is via TheBigGive.org.uk 

GSA (Glasgow School of Art) Video Archive

GSA Video Archive  - 6,500 views since May 2011 launch!

• 84 videos of public lectures and events
• Wide variety - organised by The Glasgow Urban Lab, Architecture Friday Lectures, Fine Art Friday Events, Exhibitions talks and events, and more!
• Entire series of Architecture Friday Lectures from 2010-11
• Various Friday Event lectures dating from 2006-11
  The GSA Video Archive was launched in May 2011 - and is now available via the Glasgow School of Art website. Here's the link:-www.gsa.ac.uk/videoarchive.  It will also soon become available on GSA’s Vimeo account (over the next few months, with the help of Lyn McLaughlin), where you can browse by subject categories – using channels on Art, Architecture, Design, FoCI, Research, etc: http://vimeo.com/gsofa

'... including notable talks by architect Steven Holl, artist and kinetic sculptor Susumu Shingu, designer Ben Kelly, artist and GSA graduate Christine Borland, artist and GSA graduate Roddy Buchanan, Urban Lab lecturer Graeme Evans, artist Martha Rosler, and more! There are two talks each featuring our own Roger Wilson and Thomas Joshua Cooper, a fantastic research presentation by Alistair MacDonald, and two talks by recent UK Fullbright Distinguished Chair Ann Markusen.'