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CONRAD LANDIN recommends an exhibition on the visionary architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose style has had a lasting impact on the city
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style
Kelvingrove Gallery
Glasgow
HE BROUGHT about nothing short of a revolution. It’s hard to spend any time in Britain’s second city — Glasgow, that is, for any Brummies and Mancunians out there — without being touched by the flair of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
With exhibitions in London and Glasgow within the past five years, you might wonder what the current extravaganza marking his 150th birth anniversary at the Kelvingrove can add. But Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Making the Glasgow Style is worthwhile primarily for drumming home that, genius though he was, Mackintosh was no lone ranger. His work defined not just a moment but a movement.
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