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Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour

Arts series. Alan Yentob meets some Turner Prize-winning artists to recount how Glasgow became a city as famed for its contemporary art as it once was for its shipbuilding.

imagine... explores the story of a group of artists and curators who stormed the international art world and turned their home city of Glasgow into a global capital for contemporary art. Amongst the artists Alan Yentob encounters are 2011 Turner Prize-winner Martin Boyce, as well as previous winners Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and Richard Wright, to tell the story of a city now as famed for its contemporary art as it was for its shipbuilding.

1 hour, 10 minutes

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Series Editor Alan Yentob
Director Colin Murray
Presenter Alan Yentob

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