Scottish artist and television presenter
Glasgow School of Art says full restoration of the Mackintosh Building is unaffordable without external funding, with cost estimated at £265m. The institution plans to stabilise the structure, remove scaffolding, and pursue a future anchored in creative and cultural industries while seeking visionary investment and public support.
The BBC’s Fake or Fortune? has authenticated a portrait as the work of 18th-century Scottish artist Katherine Read, marking it as the earliest European female-artist portrait of an Indian sitter. A sleeping-bag-wrapped work, found by Mary-Louise Wedderburn, is now valued well over 100000 pounds, with experts calling the attribution crucial for art history and the market.