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…

Neville Rae

Neville Rae

3 Oct 2008

For want of a little creative breathing space, new gallery partnership Sierra Metro has bravely shunned the inner-city Edinburgh gallery scene. Directors Janine Sproule and Martin Minton have appropriated a disused warehouse in the North of Edinburgh…

The Porcelain Project

The Porcelain Project

2 Oct 2008

DANCE/VISUAL ART In the normal run of things, dancers rehearse, set-makers build and eventually the two elements come together. Not so with The Porcelain Project. The latest offering from Belgium’s Needcompany started life as an artwork by…

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Popular events

Steven Campbell: Wretched Stars, Insatiable Heaven
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Exhibition in two locations, selected from the artist's body of completed work before his death in 2007.
16 Aug–11 Oct Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
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
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
Gordon Picken: New Paintings
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A new exhibition by Gordon Picken in which he has concentrated on modern urban buildings.
Mondays–Fridays 9.00am–5.30 Pentagon Galleries, Glasgow
Barbara Rae
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Prints by honorary graduate of the University of Aberdeen.
4 Aug–18 Oct Mon–Sat 10.00am–5.00; Sun 2.00–5.00 Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
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