Andy Warhol

What You See is Where You’re At

6 Jan 2010

‘Everything is going to be alright,’ announces the neon installation by former Turner Prize winner Martin Creed as you approach the grand entrance to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It’s a fitting curtain raiser to the re-hang of the…

Visual Art highlights in Edinburgh and Glasgow

10 Sep 2009

Glasgow is known for its dynamic contemporary art scene, and there is no shortage of galleries to suit every taste and curiosity. Opening in September this year, Trongate 103, the new über art complex in the Merchant City, will provide a home to the…

Artist Rooms

A special bequest of works by key figures from the last 50 years

13 Jul 2009

In an unexpected act of philanthropy, it was announced last year that art dealer Anthony d’Offay would make a donation of a large number of the epochal works of art in his collection to the National Galleries of Scotland and to the Tate. While these…

Esther B Robinson - A Walk Into the Sea

14 Aug 2008

In July 1966, Esther B Robinson’s uncle Danny Williams drove home to Massachusetts, with a shaving kit full of drugs, and took his own life. Thirty-four years later, Esther’s grandmother Nadia came to visit her granddaughter’s workplace at the Warhol…

Hugh Grant earns $17m from six years with Liz

14 Nov 2007

British film star Hugh Grant has made a profit of around $17 million after an Andy Warhol portrait he bought six years ago sold at auction for $21 million. The archetypal English fop sold the 1963 portrait of Elizabeth Taylor at Christie’s in New…

Warhol’s Liz portrait to fetch $25m under the hammer

7 Nov 2007

A portrait of Dame Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it goes under the hammer in New York. It is reported that the 1963 portrait - simply entitled Liz - currently belongs to British actor Hugh…

Hitlist - The best Festival art

16 Aug 2007

Richard Long: Walking and Marking As one of this country’s important land artists, long takes over the SNGMA with works that record and relate to his treks around the world. Paintings and photographs fill the gallery, as sculptures and land art…

Andy Warhol

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

Novelist and Goldsmiths graduate Niven Govinden charts the enduring appeal of pop artist Andy Warhol

D'Offay art collection

Sale of the Century

2 Oct 2006

Last week provided an undeniably momentous moment in the history of British art. The landmark joint announcement by Tate and the Scottish National Galleries that Britain’s two largest public collections of contemporary art will join forces to acquire…