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National Galleries Scotland: Modern One
Neoclassical former school turned art museum, fronted by a swirling earthwork lawn for picnics.
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This guide to National Galleries Scotland: Modern One traces the rippling earthwork lawn that artist Charles Jencks sculpted here in 2002, drawing on Georges Seurat's painting of Parisians picnicking by the Seine and a mathematical shape mathematicians call a strange attractor. It also covers the building's earlier life as John Watson's School, founded by an Edinburgh lawyer's bequest, before the National Gallery of Modern Art moved in during 1984. Listen for how the plain rectangular lawn looked before Jencks got to it.
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