Glasgow art gallery spends £1m on a new cosmopolitan face
International purchases 'will transform' Goma By Edd McCracken Arts Correspondent
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2471794.0.glasgow_art_gallery_spends_1m_on_a_new_cosmopolitan_face.phpGLASGOW'S GALLERY of Modern Art has revealed its first international acquisitions in more than a decade and, backed by a major fund to buy more over the next five years, its curator is promising "a cosmopolitan revolution" within the gallery.
The first fruits of this new internationalism will go on show on December 11 at a special exhibition, Collected: Matthew Buckingham/Peter Hujar, displaying eight of the new purchases.
Hujar, who died in 1987, is best-known for his image of New York transsexual Aids victim Candy Darling on her deathbed, used on the cover of Anthony and the Johnsons' award-winning album, I Am A Bird Now. Robert Mapplethorpe and Diane Arbus both cited him as an influence. The seven photos purchased by Goma explore similar, dark parts of 1970s New York's netherworld.
