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Perceiving The Modern World At The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Neil Simpson | Posted 10.03.2012 | Home
Read More: Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walter Scott, James Boswell, Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Reynolds Edinburgh, David Hume, Home News
Neil Simpson

In Citizens of the World: David Hume and Allan Ramsay, we are treated to some of the painter Allan Ramsay's most celebrated works. Throughout the exhibition we can draw connections between the overlapping lives of great enlightened philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.

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The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons Review

Neil Simpson | Posted 11.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Adam Smith, Samuel Pepys, Steve Coogan, Handel, Samuel Johnson, Hogarth, Downton Abbey, Strictly Come Dancing, Reynolds, Andy Warhol, Mary Robinson, Sarah Siddon, Nell Gwyn, James Boswell, Elizabeth Ann Sheridan, Hugh Grant, X Factor, Celebrity Worship, National Portrait Gallery, Drury Lane, Gainsborough, UK Culture, Home News
Neil Simpson

Indeed there is no shying away from the parallels in this exhibition with so much modern entertainment. Celebrity worship is another human constant; and with celebrity, as any Hugh Grant or Steve Coogan knows, comes sex, obsession and the baying British press.

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