Gallery of Modern Art
Neoclassical former merchant's mansion and exchange showing contemporary art, fronted by a coned statue.
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This guide to the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow stays outside, at the bronze horseman by its door, and turns to the animal rather than the general. It follows Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's favourite horse, from the field of Waterloo to the stable, and on to the traffic cone Glaswegians keep placing on his rider's head. Best heard standing in Royal Exchange Square, facing the statue's plinth.
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