The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Romain Duris turns out an excellent performance in French drama

23 May 2011

(tbc) 114min This adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s novel relocates the setting from New York and Montana to Paris and the Adriatic Coast. Its plot involves murder, identity theft and abandonment but this is not so much a thriller as an investigation…

Big Picture: Imaginate

14 May 2010

The Royal Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival continues with a variety of activities for kids including We Dance, Wee Groove (pictured), a colourful dance event for trendy tots aged up to four. Theatre shows, workshops and other activities for kids will…

Kevin MacNeil: Big Picture

19 Mar 2010

Having just completed cycle rides across Europe for cancer charities, the acclaimed Hebridean author gets back inside his writerly head for this event in which he will discuss his work, an oeuvre that includes a novel, The Stornoway Way, a book of…

STHLM ‘go away to come home’

19 Jan 2010

Award-winning photographer Jannica Honey traded living in Sweden for an Edinburgh Uni photography course and the pleasures of Leith docks almost a decade ago. However, as her latest exhibition shows, the ideas of dislocation, remembrance and comparison…

Big picture: The Soda Waste - By Paul Smith

Sighthill photography project

19 Nov 2009

Almost a year in the making, this incredible photography project documents the forgotten schemes and families of Glasgow’s Sighthill, before its demolition at the end of this month. Built upon derelict ground in the late-19th century, the area has had a…

Alistair McClymont

17 Sep 2009

What you’re looking at is not a CGI or Photoshop trick, it’s an actual miniature tornado of water vapour, created through the application of some astounding physics by artist Alistair McClymont. This ‘meteorological eye candy’, as the up-and-coming…

Bap Kennedy - Howl On

23 Jul 2009

Belfast-born singer-songwriter, Martin (or Bap) Kennedy, has been treading the rocky boards for nigh-on 20 years having led minor hitmakers, Energy Orchard, on their unsustainable UK Top 60 debut in 1990. Once sharing a stage with mentor, Van Morrison…

The big picture: Tracey Emin - Sweet Thing

16 Apr 2009

Brit art brat Tracey Emin is one of 50 contemporary artists, including Peter Howson and Douglas Gordon, featured in an exhibition of works inspired by Robert Burns. Emin’s ‘Sweet Thing’ was based on the bard’s poem ‘Nine Inch Will Please a Lady’. So. Is…

The Big Picture - Solange Knowles

30 Oct 2008

Solange Knowles is shaking off her sisterly ties (she’s Beyonce’s wee sis) with a touch of old school Motown and collaborations with every well-known producer in the hip hop world. Already making waves in the US, she’s now taking on the UK with the…