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FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival reveals its 2025 programme
The UK’s largest annual festival of visual art returns with a programme featuring performance by Linder and Lewis Walker, film work by CJ Mahony and Lewis Hetherington, festival Jupiter Rising, and a new festival hub on Leith Street Read more »| 29 May 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: June 2025
June brings your annual reminder to check out the art school degree shows, plus two exhibitions foregrounding acts of resistance open in Edinburgh Read more »| 29 May 2025 -
ArtEdinburgh International Mural Festival to launch this summer
A new festival dedicated to street art and community – Edinburgh International Mural Festival – will make its debut as part of Hidden Door this June Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: May 2025
Linder Sterling confronts patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality in her first retrospective in Scotland, while Jeremy Deller invites you to a collaborative punk performance in Dundee Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
NewsCCA Highlights: April 2025
After a winter spent in hibernation, the CCA is reopening its doors and its spring programme looks incredible. We get into the nitty-gritty of some of the best things on over the next few months Read more »| 03 Apr 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: April 2025
Motherhood and creativity is the subject of a landmark exhibition in Dundee, while Portia Zvavahera presents her dreamscapes at Fruitmarket and Jupiter Artland reopens for 2025 Read more »| 02 Apr 2025
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MusicJupiter Rising x EAF: First details for 2025 revealed
Glasgow DJ and electronic artist TAAHLIAH will headline this year's Jupiter Rising x EAF, the after-dark party of live music, art and performance at Jupiter Artland Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
NewsEdinburgh Art Festival & The Skinny Emerging Writers' programme returns
Our Emerging Writers programme with Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2025 with a new longform commission Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: March 2025
A pair of major survey exhibitions spotlight dozens of emerging artists this March, plus shows from Steve McQueen, Walker & Bromwich and Jude Browning Read more »| 04 Mar 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: February 2025
Exhibitions and events across February include a Derek Jarman deep dive, a discussion of printmaking as a political tool, and a show exploring the feminist power of saying no Read more »| 03 Feb 2025 -
NewsCreative Scotland reveal Multi-Year Funding awards
The recipients of nearly £200 million of Creative Scotland funding have been announced, as the long-delayed Multi-Year Funding process concludes Read more »| 30 Jan 2025 -
NewsSummerhall to host Edinburgh Fringe programme in 2025
Things are looking brighter at Summerhall – the troubled arts venue now have HMRC off their back and now Summerhall Arts have confirmed they will deliver a Fringe programme this August Read more »| 10 Jan 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: January 2025
While the first month of the year is undoubtedly a quiet one, there's still plenty of exhibitions to see across Scotland this January Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
NewsGlasgow artist Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize
While picking up the UK’s biggest arts prize for her solo exhibition Alter Altar, Jasleen Kaur spoke out for Palestinian people and urged arts institutions to listen to artists’ calls for an immediate ceasefire Read more »| 04 Dec 2024 -
NewsScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: December 2024
Bring 2024 to a close with a print exhibition in Dundee, two excellent posthumous exhibitions, and a group show inspired by the life and work of Derek Jarman Read more »| 04 Dec 2024