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Not all plain sailing on the salmon trail
ONE OF the more widely visible public art projects in the north-east of England this year has been having a rough voyage...
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Editorial Comment
MR DONALD Trump's unheralded arrival on the development scene in North East Scotland has brought unexpected problems for the planners. Opinions have polarised around his grandiose golf/housing scheme, producing strong economic arguments for it and powerful environmental arguments against...
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Dead true
IT'S TRUE that you take your own baggage with you when you go to see art. The first sight of Lucy Skaer's work when you walk into Edinburgh's Fuitmarket Gallery is a painted image of a cornfield. On it, it seemed to me, was cast the dark shadow of a low-flying Stealth bomber, theatening death and destruction...
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Changing face of China on display at City Arts Centre
THE CLOSEST most of us get to Chinese culture is the local takeaway or the new year firecrackers and dragons in Britain's Chinatowns. But, of course, there's much, much more to China than that. It's a huge land and it's changing fast, with a flight from the countryside to the already swollen cities, rapid industrialisation and a new emphasis on tradional Confucian values and ways of thought after the upheavals of the last few decades...
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Here is the (printed) news - 500 years later
THIS YEAR, Scotland is celebrating 500 years of printing in Scotland with a festival that lasts for almost 18 months and covers the whole of the country with exhibitions, conferences, workshops, readings and other events, some of which last for several months while others last for only a day...
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Leonard Cohen: a tribute
THERE IS probably no singer/songwriter who expresses the angst of the second half of the 20th century (and the beginning of the 21st) in a more haunting and enduring way than Leonard Cohen, who has been performing to packed houses in Manchester, Edinburgh and London across the past two months and will be back in England (in Ledbury, near Hereford) at the beginning of August...
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Dark skies through a gap in the trees - the Kielder advantage
ARCHITECTS leapt at the chance to design a small building hidden away in the wilds of Northumberland, miles from anywhere...
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Go North! - you'll be surprised
ONE OF the most northerly commercially run galleries in Britain - Brown's in Tain - is celebrating a major expansion with a glittering summer show which has just opened...
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New inspiration from the kirk
ENTERPRISING use of space in a lively parish church has produced a new display area for artists in an Aberdeenshire town...
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Told You so Department
SURPRISE, surprise. Readers may remember we were castigated for daring to bemoan the destruction of a charming low cottar house in Aberdeenshire and its replacement by what we called a "ghastly" kit house. We were taken to task by the developer who assured us that the replacement had been specially designed to "fit in" to the environment...
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Also celebrating a quarter century...
IT'S NOT only this paper which is celebrating its 25th birthday. The ever popular West End Art Craft & Design Fair, held during the Festival (Aug 2 - 24) at St John's Church at Princes Street/Lothian Road, has reached the same milestone...
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Wanted: a coherent arts policy for West Lothian
THE FILM critic and Culture Show presenter Mark Kermode has recently been seen promoting the show declaring that "everything is culture - except football."...
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To the Editor, ArtWork
I was astounded by the fierce attack by John Di Folco on the doughty denizens of Dysart, as he termed us, in the last issue of ArtWork and feel the need to point out a number of inaccuracies contained in the piece...
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Another bumper Pittenweem
ALWAYS an attractive and eclectic mix of the arts, this year's Pittenweem Arts Festival looks all set to build on a proven track record. With eighty-five venues, including ten designated gallery spaces dotted throughout the East Neuk Royal Burgh, it is poised yet again to pull the visitors-come-art lovers whose numbers, rather like the Scottish birth rate these days, continue to rise...
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