Visual Art

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Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death

Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death

(4 stars)15 Nov 2007

SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION Royal Botanic Gardens, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, until Sun 20 Jan Simply entering Smith/Stewart’s new exhibition is difficult. Faced directly with a black horizontal girder, one feels tempted to advance, yet hesitant.

Naked Portrait

1 Aug 2007

In contrast with the ‘nude’ figure in western art history, the naked portrait still manages to present a sometimes shocking and raw view of the sitter’s personality that reaches beyond their public façade.

Juliane Moore

Vanity Fair Portraits

5 Jun 2008

We didn’t need Princess Diana to die to know we live in a celebrity-obsessed age. The love/hate relationship between the people and the famous is now more fraught than ever. Fame has never been so easy to come by, but we seem to take even greater joy in…

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams gallery expands opening hours

27 Mar 2008

Following the success of the Ansel Adams retrospective at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre, the gallery has extended its opening times to meet demand for the show. The Centre was due to re-establish Sunday opening from Sunday 6 April and has now brought…

Life drawing meets burlesque erotica

Gothic horror picture show

12 Feb 2007

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m loitering outside the entrance to Edinburgh’s newest art class trying not to look too much like a pervert. Some passing tourists catch sight of the Dr Sketchy’s poster advertising ‘Drawing & Drinks & Dames & Dudes’ and I…

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Glasgay!
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Europe's largest queer multi-arts festival takes over Glasgow with comedy, music, film, theatre, visual art, performance art, literature, club nights, educational events and community arts projects. This year's line-up includes performance from Stephen Petronio Dance, Scotland's Theatre Cryptic; Pacitti Company, Simon Fischer Turner and Black Sifichi. There will be exhibitions from David Trullo and Gregor Laird, and comedy from the likes of Dilly Keane, Paul Sinha and Tim Fountain. This year…
1 Oct–9 Nov (Times vary) Various Venues, Glasgow
A Time And Place: Paintings from the City Collection
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In conjunction with 'Treasured Places' this showcases works by Scottish painters with an affinity to a vast array of Scottish places both rural and urban.
25 Oct–17 Jan 2009 Mon–Sat 10.00am–5.00; Sun 12.00–5.00 City Art Centre, Edinburgh
A Place to Be
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Exhibition of works by community members from across North Lanarkshire.'Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival'.
3 Oct–30 Oct 10.00am–3.00 Motherwell Civic Centre, Motherwell
The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Renaissance
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32 paintings and 42 drawings from the period of the Italian Renaissance, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Tintoretto, Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Costa and Titian. This is the first of two-part exhibition, the second of which will cover the Baroque period. Last admission 5pm.
1 Sep–26 Oct 9.30am–6.00 The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh
Artist Adventurers
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A selection of drawings and watercolours of Spain, ranging from the early 1800s to the beginning of the following century.
1 Sep–30 Nov Mon–Sat 10.00am–5.00 Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
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