By now they were members of a grand cultural institution.

The kirk, for so long the dominant cultural institution, promulgated a distinct and unimpeachably different kind of identity north of the border.

But the cultural institution maintains a vibrant digital presence through virtual exhibitions, remote learning resources and a library of insightful artistic criticism.

It should be a condition of any production or cultural institution receiving public funding that performances are filmed and exhibitions photographed and made accessible to the whole country.

Perhaps no other cultural institution commands comparable bandwidth in our national consciousness.