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Alexander Hamilton

Interview - Alexander Hamilton

Travels without my camera

7 Aug 2008

It might seem laughably low-tech in a digital age, but the camera-less cyanotype, one of the earliest and simplest forms of photography, still enthrals Edinburgh artist Alexander Hamilton. ‘It’s just two chemicals mixed together and applied to…

Richard Hamilton: Shock and Awe

Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures

Incomplete display of anti-establishment works by a British master

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

While this exhibition gives a flavour of just how iconic the work of pioneering British pop artist Richard Williams has been, particularly in relation to the authority-subverting subtexts at work within them, the impression upon leaving is that only…

Richard Wilson: Hot Dog Roll

Richard Wilson

Feats of engineering and derring-do

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

A man burrows his way out of the back of a black hackney cab that’s still in motion, looking like he’s tunnelled his way out of Wonderland to avoid paying his fare. The same hole-in-the-wall gang appears to have turned the brutalist façade of an office…

The Golden Record

The Golden Record - Sounds of Earth

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

If the truth really is out there, the prospect of aliens landing on a planet populated by posh comedians would be enough to send them zapping back beyond Uranus in double-quick hyper-drive. The comedy aspect is one of the more worrying premises of this…

Art Festival launch

Edinburgh Art Festival 2008

edfest.tv - video

5 Aug 2008

The Edinburgh Art Festival all set to be an exhilarating experience. Director Joanne Brown paints the big picture…

Return of the Soul

Return of the Soul

edfest.tv - video

5 Aug 2008

Scottish artist Jane Frere portrays the unrest in the Middle East through the creation of thousands of figures held in limbo.

Don't let media circus obscure Tracey Emin's talent

Adam Fraser's festival blog

4 Aug 2008

In this writer’s opinion, the most impressive show of the Fringe so far was the one which kicked off with a circus show on Friday morning (1 August). A media circus, that is, as Tracey Emin appeared in Edinburgh for the press viewing of her debut UK…

Life's a riot with Man versus Art

Alan Bissett's festival blog

4 Aug 2008

Hello, groovers. And so begins my blog for Scotland’s Cultural Bible from the beating, garish heart of the Edinburgh festival. I’ll be updating, with semi-regularity, on what I’ve seen, heard, touched, tasted, felt and drank. After, all, something had…

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

31 Jul 2008

Six different, self-contained installation pieces by hugely acclaimed Canadian artist partnership Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, which run a series of gamuts, taking in culture both high and popular, film, multimedia robotics and…

Joanne Brown

5 Questions - Joanne Brown

31 Jul 2008

Director of the Edinburgh Art Festival, takes stock of the programme. Five words to describe the Edinburgh Art Festival programme this year: Wide-ranging, exciting, challenging, colourful, fun. Four aspects of the EAF you’re looking forward to: Visiting…

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