Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 07 Nov 2008
John Routledge: Not many would describe the East Neuk as the artistic centre of Fife, but in this unassuming collection of small seaside towns there’s a surprising abundance of art: so much so that the artists residing in the area have got together to organise a serie...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 20 Oct 2008
John Routledge: For those of you not already in the know, The Stills Gallery in Edinburgh is currently hosting the rather unique The Martha Rosler Library exhibition. The best way to describe it is as an interactive installation, but even this term doesn’t reall...
Art :: Preview 01 Oct 2008
Rosamund West: 2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way for some rather more profitable studio spaces, if rumours are to be believed); then we had th...
Rosamund West: Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previous instalments, the festival is a weekend-long series of events, film screenings, performances ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 25 Sep 2008
Fergus Ray Murray: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh next weekend, and very glad we are to see it too. The burlesque life drawing class came to the capital in 2006, and it's been encouraging artists and amateurs alike to whip out their ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 24 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: On Saturday 27 September about seventy grand old buildings will open up, giving us the chance to satisfy our curiosity about what weird and wonderful lands may lie beyond their often hallowed doors. The city's guts are briefly, quiveringly, exposed; th...
Deviance :: Film :: Theatre :: Art :: Clubs :: Preview 23 Sep 2008
Margaret Kirk: There is plenty of queer work these days that tickles mainstream tastes: like a larger than life character on Big Brother, or a token edgy story-line on your favourite daytime soap, sexuality is a useful signifier of exoticism that can actually work to...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 11 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: One Creative Scotland may well be one of the most satisfyingly messy events Glasgow sees this month, with artists from a huge spectrum of disciplines getting together to exhibit their work against a backdrop of live music. It's a brilliant idea &ndash...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 08 Sep 2008
Jaco Justice: Art pilgrims to Aberdeen take note: the city isn’t on fire. That smoky atmosphere you see hanging overhead is (we like to think) actually a creative harr formed by the many artists that reside in and around its environs. And coming northwards th...
Art :: Preview 27 Aug 2008
Rosamund West: The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late is a final trip around the programme now that the crowds have largely dispersed, a night-time ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 27 Aug 2008
Rosamund West: As a fitting ending to the Annuale 08, The Embassy and The Skinny are teaming up to bring you a closing tour/party on Sunday 31st August. In a bid to provide access to some of the more satellite venues, as well as having a generally gay old time, we&rs...
Art :: Preview 22 Jul 2008
Rebecca Pottinger: Fuelled by ambition of gargantuan proportions and driven with an intent in line with the joviality and ingenuity to which we have become so accustomed during August, this year's Art Festival sees Collective firmly propel The Golden Record – Sound...
Sam Stead: Edinburgh and Glasgow, two cities sitting on opposite sides of a small nation: it’s barely necessary to go into the age-old series of jokes, comments and clichés that set the two apart despite their actual geographical proximity. Presenti...
Art :: Preview 20 Jul 2008
Nancy Katz: Scottish artist Jane Frere will present perhaps one of the most thought provoking exhibitions of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Reactionary inter-disciplinary debate will range from the politics of displacement, and most specifically the 1948 Palestinian ...
Art :: Preview 01 Jul 2008
Brian Spears: Sara Sinclair’s Back Garden Biennale, which is now in its second year following its inception in 2006, brings together a culturally diverse group of artists and exhibits their works in the grounds of her own home. The Back Garden Biennale is inte...
Art :: Preview 25 Jun 2008
Brian Spears: The highly recommended art event of the weekend must surely be PLAGUES, a for-one-night-only performance of new work by artist Donald Urquhart, jointly commissioned by Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery and London’s Studio Voltaire. A so-calle...
Art :: Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 11 Jun 2008
Lucy Martin: Acclaimed as 'Scotland's strangest band' experimental pop band FOUND are living up to expectations by involving themselves in Chinese Music at Midsummer, a free promenade performance which hopes to bring together elements of an ongoing exhibition (Dial...
Art :: Preview 21 May 2008
Rosamund West: 1= EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART DEGREE SHOWeca 14 – 24 JUN1= GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART DEGREE SHOWGSA 14 – 21 JUNAwarded joint first place as anything else would lead to accusations of nepotism. Time to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of mixed-t...
Art :: Preview 23 Apr 2008
Nancy Katz: Inverleith's parents are renewing their vows. Miss Art and Master Science's house-on-the-hill love affair will be celebrated with an exhibition of John Hutton Balfour's botanical teaching diagrams, and new works on paper by Grandmère Sculpture, ...
Art :: Preview 01 Apr 2008
Gabriella Griffith: The term kitsch has historically been used to describe art that is inferior. Thanks to pop art and postmodernism, however, kitsch has taken on an insatiable element of cool. The no longer derogatory description, like Harald Turek, originated in Germany...
