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FestivalsEdinburgh Art Festival unveils Dazzle Ship project
A dramatic overhaul of the historic former lighthouse boat MV Fingal by Turner Prize nominee Ciara Phillips has been announced today by Edinburgh Art Festiva... Read more »| 20 Jan 2016 -
NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: Glasgow Art Crawl
This week, catch new exhibitions from CCA, the Cooper Gallery and Glasgow Sculpture Studios, ahead of the latest edition of Glasgow Artist Guild on Sunday. Read more »| 19 Jan 2016 -
NewsScottish Art News: January 2016
Bargain Spot sees its last exhibition in its current space this month, while Transmission schedules three artist talks, and established painter Merlin James exhibits new work in the CCA. Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: Embassy & GSA Openings
It's the first of the new year's art roundups, with new exhibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow, performance events and the screening of a new work by Rachel Maclean. Read more »| 12 Jan 2016 -
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What Next! 2016 in Scottish Contemporary Art
Christen your new diary with all the latest plans for the year ahead in Scottish contemporary art. It's a blockbuster year with exceptional festivals Glasgow International and British Art Show 8 of particular note Read more »| 11 Jan 2016 -
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CCA Highlights – January/February 2016
Artists, musicians and documentarians mobilise against the January blues: we select some gems for the disenfranchised from the CCA's bulging brochure Read more »| 11 Jan 2016
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The Skinny Review of 2015
The Skinny team look back on 2015; it was a year of monumental art, genre-bending comedy, myth-shattering in the world of film, and one or two parties Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: Radical Art Fund Launch
It’s mid-December, so this week is about catching shows before they close (with Scotland's galleries roughly syncing up for their winter breaks), Xmas parties with Paraphernalia and Transmission, and a little bit of shopping. Read more »| 15 Dec 2015 -
NewsShia LaBeouf is in Liverpool for #TOUCHMYSOUL
Shia LaBeouf is appearing at FACT in Liverpool, with performance art collective LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, as part of the gallery's new group exhibition, Follow Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: WASPS & EAMIF
The week might have started high with the Turner Prize, but there's plenty more to get into over the next week, including Edinburgh Artist Moving Image Festival and a host of one-off events across Scotland. Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
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Community art – Assemble win the Turner Prize 2015
Architecture and design collective Assemble won the Turner Prize 2015 for their renovation of otherwise-retired housing stock in Liverpool. Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
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Rogue Artists Studios' Manchester home sold
Crusader Mill, the Manchester home of the Rogue Artists Studios art complex, has been sold to a property developer, with the studios' artists facing a move t... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: CCA Common Guild & more
There are exhibition-related screenings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this week, as well as a stand-alone film event by LUX Scotland, an art sale in the Project Room and an opening of an exhibition within an exhibition in House for an Art Lover. Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
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Scottish Art News: December 2015
Throughout December, as well as the art and design markets listed in another feature, there are openings and celebrations across the country. Read more »| 30 Nov 2015 -
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Refugee crisis: Cartoon urges EU to do more
A new animated video by a group of Swedish designers, Safe and Legal Paths calls on European Union leaders to do more to help those caught up in the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Read more »| 25 Nov 2015