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David Batchelor

David Batchelor

16 Aug 2007

5 words to describe your show this year Not dark, not heavy, not deep, not tragic, not sublime. 4 exhibitions you really want to see at the Art Festival Lygia Clark, Eva Hesse, Hanna Hoch, Mira Schendel. 3 things you love about the Art…

Hitlist - The best Festival art

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…

Michael Craik: Razed to the Ground

Michael Craik: Razed to the Ground

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

There can be an arresting intimacy in small paintings. The artist’s relationship becomes that much closer and more private, the intentions more modest. Certainly this seems to be part of the appeal of Michael Craik’s most recent works, all of which are…

Richard Long: Walking and Marking

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

Even at 60, Richard Long is a towering, physical man. He has trekked across the Sahara, Lapland, and the Himalayas, crossed Ireland in 12 days and lost himself in the Gobi desert and the Norwegian wilderness. For the past 40 years Long has been making…

William Eggleston: Portraits 1974

William Eggleston: Portraits 1974

(5 stars)16 Aug 2007

No matter what decade you were brought up in, the 1970s are absolutely dripping with glossy, honey-hued nostalgia. And it’s exactly this kitschy, colour-saturated era that William Eggleston has captured in his 1974 photographs on show at Inverleith…

Alex Hartley

5 Questions - Alex Hartley

9 Aug 2007

Edinburgh Art Festival virgin Alex Hartley prays for sun and an end to ‘mega shows’

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

(5 stars)9 Aug 2007

Andy Warhol is 20th century America. It is impossible to decide which came first. Did he create that nation’s brash, shiny, sexy yet sickening materialism, or is he a product of it? The exhibition of his work at the National Gallery makes it impossible…

David Batchelor

David Batchelor

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

David Batchelor has been a busy man of late, scouring pound shops in London and Scotland for pegs, combs, cutlery, clothes pegs, children’s toys, girly hair accessories and a whole manner of other cheap plastic objects in preparation for this new site…

David Batchelor

David Batchelor and Nikolai Suetin

9 Aug 2007

Now in its tenth year as one of Edinburgh’s established independent galleries, the Ingleby has chosen to mark the occasion with a series of 26 small-scale shows which present a work by a well-known contemporary artists alongside another ‘complementary…

Picasso

Picasso: Fired with Passion

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

The crowd puller/money spinner for this exhibition is its heavy emphasis on Picasso’s ceramic work, running from his later years of 1947–1961 and all produced whilst living and working in the South of France. And indeed they are fascinating, ranging…

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