Glasgow City Council recently announced details of an exciting new Festival of Contemporary Visual Arts to take place throughout the city from 21st April to 2nd May 2005. Under the curatorship of Francis McKee, GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL will be Glasgow’s first curated and commissioning festival.
Since 1988 when Glasgow hosted the National Garden Festival, the city has been engaged in cultural regeneration on a huge scale. Indeed, during its tenure as the European Capital of Culture in 1990, the city was credited with being the first UK city to use the arts as a strategy for cultural regeneration; a model that has since been taken up and implemented by the British government in numerous other urban regeneration schemes throughout the UK.
