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The Middle Place presented by Garry Fabian Miller
15 May 2013
Step into the timelessness of nature captured by the world acclaimed Bristolian photographic artist
The Middle Place is Bristolian photographic artist and gardener Garry Fabian Miller's personal viewing area from which he can eyeball the seasonal synergies which have made him an acclaimed international artist. It's best to start upstairs with this…
Richard T Kelly - The Possessions of Doctor Forrest (review)
26 Mar 2013
Gothic thriller makes for a pleasant departure for the Crusaders author
(Faber) Take three respected Scottish doctors, a paediatric surgeon, psychiatrist and cosmetic surgeon, now all living comfortably in suburban London. Make the hedonist cosmetic surgeon suddenly disappear and you have the beginnings of a very…
Wendy Ramshaw: Room of Dreams
19 Mar 2013
Touring exhibition celebrates work of artist, designer and jewellery-maker
Reflecting Miguel de Cervantes’ belief that to ‘protract great design is to ruin it’, artist, designer, jewellery-maker and goddess of the festooned gate Wendy Ramshaw is contemporary applied art’s elusive matriarch. Ramshaw’s extraordinary career is…
Opinion: There's no need to de-clutter your life
23 Jan 2013
It’s time to halt the New Year spring clean and celebrate the object preen
‘Clearing clutter and junk out of my life was so exhilarating, I began to clear up other people’s clutter, dirt and junk. I organized my own cleaning company and over the next eight years, I built it into a national organization.’ So goes the gushing…
Niall Griffiths - A Great Big Shining Star
22 Jan 2013
Griffiths' social drama about youthful obsession with celebrity is a brutal and barbarous pleasure
As some of the architects of the British micro-celebrity explosion come under the scrutiny of the Savile inquiry, Niall Griffiths deconstructs the life of someone who yearns to live her life in the pages of Heat and Nuts. Grace wants to leave her small…
Preview of 2013
18 Dec 2012
We look ahead to some of the hottest events in the next 12 months, including GTA V and Lana Del Rey
Massimo Bartolini Magical Italian artist set to take over the Fruitmarket One of the most eagerly anticipated exhibitions to arrive in Scotland in the new year is a show of new sculptural work by the Italian artist, Massimo Bartolini. Bartolini is…
Nicholas Royle - First Novel
13 Dec 2012
A lithe, quirky and occasionally inspired story of academia, dogging and possible murder
‘What’s the difference between a publisher and a terrorist? You can negotiate with terrorists.’ So goes the mantra of many a long out-of-print novelist. Education has been the savour of one-time author Paul Kinder. His one forgotten book lies behind him…
Hogmanay 2012: The Cult of Fortuna
12 Dec 2012
Artists Walker & Bromwich tell us about their large-scale installation, part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay
This Hogmanay the Romans are coming. The invasion will be led by a huge inflatable goddess. Bringing up the rear will be two grinning and garrulous performance artists. Battle headquarters will be at the National Museum of Scotland. Zoe Walker, one half…
Group show Galapagos explores notion of the islands and Charles Darwin
16 Nov 2012
Including work by Jeremy Deller, Marcus Coates and Tania Kovats
Charles Darwin’s ‘little world within itself’ bears the weight of artistic interpretation in this fascinating group show. Bringing together the work of 11 artists who spent time in the archipelago courtesy of a residency programme set up by the…
Gordon McLean - No More Heroes
12 Nov 2012
A derivative but darkly diverting comic
One night, as he sits around drinking with some friends, Sid Millar receives a text message. It reads: ‘Should I kill myself?’ Egged on by his mates he texts back: ‘Yes’. The next day legendary superhero Dark Justice is found dead with the phone that…
Tom Wolfe - Back to Blood
12 Nov 2012
A broad, loud and funny American drama set in Miami
With the exception of Joan Didion's Miami and John Sayles’ Los Gusanos, Tom Wolfe’s fourth novel is the finest book ever written about Florida’s Atlantic-facing coastal metropolis. Wilier than writers half his age, Wolfe knows that great novels can be…
An inside look at The Arches' revival of Alien War
17 Oct 2012
The Arches revival of the infamous terror experience from a first-person perspective
For as long as I can remember ghost trains have been a part of my life. The first time I went on one I filled my long socks with urine. The second time I jumped from the train and had to be led out by an employee with a white sheet draped around his…
Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behaviour
15 Oct 2012
A densely written, glacially paced and beautifully characterised novel from the prolific writer
Named after a cheap wreath in the mistaken belief that it sounded like a name from the bible, Dellarobia Turnbow is a picture of redneck suppression. Stuck in a bloodless marriage with a fat imbecile whose parents control their lives on a struggling…
Again, a Time Machine
8 Oct 2012
Touring exhibition celebrating radical art practices of the late 20th century
As print media gasps its last, non-profit publisher and arts organisation Book Works holds firm on that last unoccupied mound. Again, a Time Machine is a touring exhibition and curio paean to radical art practices of the late 20th century. Anarchic…
The Silky Pair
22 Aug 2012
A few sketches hit the mark, but feels cobbled together
Female duo The Silky Pair sells sketches and songs from their comedy shop. Punters have the chance to buy complete routines including outfits and hand gestures. It's a conceptual comedy cliché that's as old as The Two Ronnies but that doesn't mean it…
Brad Pitt stars in blackly comic Killing Them Softly
17 Aug 2012
Pitt reteams with director Andrew Dominik, director of The Assassination of Jesse James and Chopper
Biopics of tortured bad men and periods in development hell have been New Zealand-born Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik's stock in trade since the millennium. His economic and gleeful debut Chopper, an account of the life and times of Melbourne…
Bonkers Cannes crowd-pleaser Holy Motors marks return of filmmaker Leos Carax
16 Aug 2012
Blackly comic, deranged and compelling offering from the rebel French director
French filmmaker Leos Carax is an acquired taste. Critically acclaimed but marginalised by any kind of real international success his trajectory through the 1980s and 1990s was marked by a poetic desire to depict love in all its torture, lust and…
Berwick Upon Tweed Film & Media Festival 2012 features work by Mark Cousins and the late Chris Marker
15 Aug 2012
Celebration explores relationship between the moving and still image and showcase artists who work a
RIP the mighty photographer, filmmaker, essayist and multimedia artist Chris Marker who died in July this year. His 1962 masterwork La Jetée is the powerhouse of photomontage, conceptual filmmaking, the film that all other invocations of apocalyptic…
I Am, I Am
15 Aug 2012
Highly entertaining slapstick minstrelry from promising troubadour comedy duo
For ones so young it's obscene how much confidence these duelling acoustic troubadours from Cambridge have. With their genre shifting ditties and punning rhymes I Am, I Am are most obviously comparable to The Flight of the Conchords but their very…
Jessie Cave: Bookworm
11 Aug 2012
A bookish, kooky, bolshy hour
Jessie Cave has a thing about books. She also has a thing about power. Founding a book club is a given. Giddy with excitement, Cave parades her many eccentricities while laying down the various rules of book club. Before becoming an actress (she played…
The Funeral of Conor O'Toole
11 Aug 2012
Compassionate comedy skirting with tedium
Fey, morbid and awkward Conor O’Toole is an unlikely comedian. A noted Goth, O’Toole wants to plan his own funeral and he is after an audience. He leads a curious bunch of punters from Bristo Square to Greyfriars Kirkyard, gets them to settle near some…
Rock
7 Aug 2012
Rabid account of US punk movement from one man and a cellist
Long before Kurt Cobain moved to Seattle, sold his ass and lost his soul, the clouds of the American punk rock movement were gathering, rumbling and occasionally transcending. From the poetic beat riffs of Gregory Corso through to the narcotic and…
Ma Biche et Mon Lapin
6 Aug 2012
A quirky French comedy from Collectif Aie Aie Aie
Like escapees from a Jean-Pierre Jeunet and/or Marc Caro film (Delicatessen/Amelie/Micmacs), Julien Mellano and Charlotte Blin are craft store silent vaudeville eccentrics; Gallic bunraku doll puppet handlers with no puppets but a whole load of mutant…
St Andrew's Day - The best film from Scotland
25 Nov 2011
Our editors pick highlights from Scottish film through history
Scotland shares Saint Andrew with areas of Russia, Romania, Greece and Malta, though this list is closed to the corruption of arthouse favourites like Theo Angelopoulos and Sergei Bondarchuk with their long names and even longer films. We’re assuming St…
Film books round-up
16 Nov 2011
The Man in the Seventh Row, Cinema: The Whole Story, Hitchcock’s Magic and more reviewed
Brian Pendreigh must surely be the hardest working movie-mad journalist and writer in Scotland. The Man in the Seventh Row (Blasted Heath ●●●) is his seventh book following biographies of Ewan McGregor and Mel Gibson, as well as Scottish cinema and…
