Glasgow starts a year of celebration as Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition opens

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Glasgow’s greatest sons, the architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum hosts Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style from 30 March to 14 August 2018. Glasgow Museums commemorates this significant anniversary with a major new temporary exhibition spanning Mackintosh’s lifetime, 1868–1928. By following a chronological narrative, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style presents his work in context to Glasgow, key predecessors, influences and Glasgow Style contemporaries. The dynamic and entrepreneurial creative spirit in the City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is captured; showcasing the rich diversity of designers and artists, educators, institutions, manufacturers and industrialists then working in Glasgow and in design an