Glasgow's arts community is mobilising to rescue the future of the city's Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), which has stood empty since January after its finances were declared unviable. Liquidators are now disposing of the centre's contents, including its archive, a move that campaigners have condemned even as several organisations put forward plans to operate a new cultural venue in the building at 350 Sauchiehall Street. The closure was the latest blow to a city whose cultural fortunes have swung sharply in recent years. The Glasgow School of Art suffered two devastating fires, in 2014 and 2018, and the CCA's announcement in January that it would cease operations sent a fresh shock through the arts scene. The CCA, known as the Third Eye Centre until 1992, was among the institutions that helped convince the European Commission to name Glasgow the first UK European Capital of Culture in 1990. Artist Mark Leckey, backing the Save Our CCA campaign, said Glasgow had long been regarded as a model for artists, with an ecology and economy that worked. To lose the CCA, he argued, would be to lose part of the core from which everything else is sustained. The sentiment captures the sense of loss in a city that once saw its industrial image remade through culture, as journalist Stephen Khan observed at the time of the 1990 award. Attention has now turned to what comes next. Multiple organisations have presented proposals to run a new cultural space in the location, and campaigners insist that selling off the centre's assets, including its archive, undermines any chance of continuity. Whether a successor can emerge from the liquidation process will determine whether one of Scotland's most important platforms for contemporary art survives in some form.