The National Gallery of Scotland was closed by a security staff strike, while only the ground floors of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Scottish Portrait Gallery and the Dean Gallery were open.
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For now, the collective portrait of the art market will likely remain as mottled as a Monet.
John Devane, a teacher at Coventry University with an MA from the Royal College of Art has been chosen for his group portrait of his three children, which he painted over three years and shows children emerging from childhood.
At best, the argument that this show "surveys various ways museums inspire the making of works of art" is evident in a few of the photographs on view most notably the large Cindy Sherman portrait that conjures up an Old Master painting (and wonderfully confuses you as to precisely which one it might be).
It follows his decision to replace Canadian art with a large portrait of Queen Elizabeth in the foyer of his department.
"Ostalgia, " in 2011, mixed younger artists with older to render a compelling portrait of post-Soviet art from the edges of modern Europe.
The portrait of Ann is on display in the Wolsey Art Gallery in Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.
Men in hard hats are the only eyewitnesses when Cai Guo-Qiang lights his massive gunpowder portrait of the founding director of Ghent's contemporary art museum where this event takes place.
Portrait Salon was formed last year and describes itself as a form of Salon des Refuses - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - that aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
For a larger perspective on Alice Neel, read the 374-page biography by art historian Pamela Allara entitled Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery.
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