Exhibitions

Design and Democracy exhibition - Free Family Weekend to mark St Andrew's Day

Free events include building your own rocket and radio-controlled car

16 Nov 2011

Design affects the lives of all of us. Whether it’s an intuitive new phone, a car that tells us we’ve left the lights on, or the Kindle doing something nobody expected and actually improving on the design of a book, who of us have not had our lives…

Festival of Museums set for nationwide celebration of Scotland’s culture in May 2011

Music, storytelling and period fashion among highlights of new festival

1 May 2011

From the Groam House Museum in Ross-shire and Portsoy Bothy in Banffshire, to the Annan Museum in Dumfries and Galloway, the Festival of Museums features an eclectic and colourful range of concerts, talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions taking…

StAnza 2011 poetry festival launches

US poet Kevin Young among programme highlights

17 Mar 2011

The five day StAnza poetry festival opened in St Andrews yesterday, launching its varied programme of verse, art and music. Always a luminous affair amid the dreich days of March, the festival, now in its 13th year, brings poetic talent from all over…

New exhibition The Inventors of Tradition examines Scotland’s textile past

Glasgow exhibition of samples, promotional materials and films

19 Jan 2011

The glory days of Scotland’s textile industry, when the Borders whirred with knitting machines and tweed was a viable alternative to central heating, seem a long time ago. Post-globalisation, garments with the ‘Made in Scotland’ label are about as…

Scottish Parliament building hosts exhibition exploring Jacobites' international legacy

Rare chance to see historic artefacts from University of Aberdeen

13 Dec 2010

The Scottish Parliament building hosts an exhibition of historical pieces from the University of Aberdeen's Jacobite collections for the next month.

The events from Scottish history that shaped the nation's character

Jacobites exhibition reveals source of sentimentality in Scottish psyche

27 Oct 2010

Rebels with a Cause: The Jacobites and the Global Imagination exhibition reveals origin of Scottish character’s tendency for the romantic, mournful and sentimental.

The Discovery of Spain - The National Gallery

Work by the country's artists from Old Masters to iconic cubists

13 Jul 2009

After tantalising visitors with idyllic views of Turner’s Italy in their last major exhibition, the National Galleries have turned their attention to Spain for their new Festival show. Rather than concentrating upon the work of a single artist, the…

The Enlightenments - Visual art in the Edinburgh International Festival

Contemporary artists explore the big ideas in different media

13 Jul 2009

From evolution and the meaning of life to the role of religion and humanity’s impact on the planet, The Enlightenments takes on the big ideas which have been a puzzle and inspiration through the ages. But visitors to the visual arts strand of the…

Nashashibi and Skaer - On a different plane

A film-based collaboration inspired by the painting of Paul Nash

13 Jul 2009

A shared belief in experimentation brought the creative talents of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer together. Neil Cooper talks to them about the wartime painting which has inspired their new filmed collaboration

The Creative World of Alan Davie

A showcase of the Scot's artistic, musical and literary pursuits

13 Jul 2009

Consistently named as one of Scotland’s most prolific living artists, Alan Davie has led a creative life of incredible reach and depth. Following an education in the late 1930s at the Edinburgh College of Art, Davie’s widespread travel, which enabled…

Danger signs - 'This Artist is Deeply Dangerous'

Bob and Roberta Smith's text painting was inspired by a sports journalist

13 Jul 2009

Bob Smith is currently en route to the Venice Biennale. In keeping with his green politics, he was making the journey from London to Venice by train but a stop over in Paris gave us time to talk about his new show. First things first: ‘Bob and Roberta…

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…

Jane and Louise Wilson

Marking two decades of iconic locations and contentious movie-making

13 Jul 2009

Whilst the enigmatic film works of the Wilson Twins often split and polarise critical opinion, the pair continue to be noted as UK art’s most recognised purveyors of the moving image. For over 20 years, they’ve been lauded for making films set in iconic…

Eva Hesse

How late German-born US sculptor downsized with some distinction

13 Jul 2009

‘You must begin making small things, so that starts a cycle going … doing begins things and it continues,' wrote Eva Hesse in one of the many notebooks during her 1960s heyday, revealing how fundamental experimentation was to her practice. Though the…

Jean Muir

Absolutely fabulous

30 Oct 2008

Jean Muir didn't invent the little black dress, but she made it her own. The trailblazing designer, who established her own label Jane & Jane in 1962 before branching out under her own name in 1966, was loved not for her catwalk extravagance or her…

Words 2008

A way with words

4 Sep 2008

How do you create an exhibition of creative writing? And why? Kirstin Innes finds out about Words 2008

Vanity Fair photo archive to go on show

20 Nov 2007

Celebrity photographs dating back to the launch of Vanity Fair are to go on show in Edinburgh and London. The magazine began in Britain in 1860 and was bought by US publisher Conde Nast in 1913. Since then it has been a by-word for glamour. The…

Capital in the frame for Ansel Adams exhibition

13 Nov 2007

Edinburgh has been selected as the only UK venue to host an exhibition of work by acclaimed US landscape photographer Ansel Adams next year. More than 150 original images from New York’s international photography museum will be hosted by the City Art…

Barbican to show 2,000 years of erotic art

11 Oct 2007

The largest exhibition of erotic art is to open in London’s Barbican Centre. More than 300 works will be on display – including the oversized fig leaf positioned over the private parts of a copied Michelangelo’s David, presented to Queen Victoria in…

Graffiti cleaners do away with exhibition art

8 Oct 2007

A former member of 1990s bands The KLF and The Orb has seen an advertisement for his current art exhibition in Brighton scrubbed off the wall by the local council’s graffiti team. James Cauty used white emulsion paint to advertise his exhibition ‘The…

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

17 Jul 2007

• Alexandre Perigot: Pipedreams Silver scaffolding delineates the outer edges of a diminutive mansion, bringing Elvis’ Graceland to Glasgow. Alexandre Perigot presents an installation that subtly comments on celebrity, collective memory and the…

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23 Apr 2007

Neil Clements: Paranoid The Glasgow-based artist examines the relationship between art and music, focusing on the simultaneous emergence of Bridget Riley as the ‘High Priestess’ of Op Art in Britain and the nosey ‘birth’ of the de-tuned guitar. The…

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9 Apr 2007

Roderick Buchanan: Histrionics An exhibition examining the sectarian past and present that still manages to haunt the streets of Glasgow. Buchanan presents films, photographs and an installation that will take over the large main gallery in GoMA for six…

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18 Sep 2006

Killing Time Graham Fagan and Graham Eatough collaborate on an excellent project that brings together theatrical elements, installation, performance art and sculpture. The artists set up dramatic situations that references plays by Osborne, Beckett…