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Culture centre built on a firm Foundation
I'VE BEEN TALKING with James Fox, Creative Director of the Hugo Burge Foundation. It's a dank, dreich February day, and James is far away, so we are on the phone, but, really, I can tell, he'd rather be in the walled gardens at Marchmont…
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Editorial Comment
NO APOLOGIES for returning to the vexed question of copyright theft, as amazingly. apparently being condoned by our government…
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A Smart Search Box can produce better sales results at minimal cost!
THE IMPORTANCE of accurately searching online content of an organisation's website could not be overemphasised as it could help enhance further interests in the business and eventually increase the overall revenue…
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Something MUST be done about the Mack!
THE EXCUSES for delay with rebuilding Glasgow School of Art have been many. Is it they actually just don’t want to rebuild, restore, replace? Really they want to sell the site for money? Sell to the highest bidder? Hotel probably. Make money from a tragedy? And If not - why is there NO progress??…
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A belta for the Lit & Phil
I'M WITH my geordie friend Marra, outside the Lit & Phil in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, close by Central Station…
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An arts tower for Ayrshire?
THIRTY YEARS ago, after a ten year search, James Brown bought for £25,000 Baltersan Castle, a ruined 16th century tower-house near Maybole in Ayrshire. From the time when he was a boy Brown, now a retired businessman from Ayr, was obsessed by the idea of owning a castle. Knights on chargers, portcullises, dungeons and the odd crenellation in a parapet were his passion…
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Summerhall's Robert Macdowell
IT'S SIX P;CLOCK on a March evening and the once rumbustiously noisy Summerhall art centre is strangely quiet. The main phone seems to be off the hook and whilst the pub is busy there seems to be very little else happening…
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Tim Stead: 1952 - 2000
Cyril Gerber Fine Art in Glasgow is currently featuring the work of the celebrated artist in wood Tim Stead. Shown above a selection of Stead‘s smaller pieces.…
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In praise of National Parks
Galloway; 'Forgotten..moribund and off the map.'? No thanks. As a professional artist who's lived in Galloway for nearly twenty years and spent most of the last seven campaigning for a National Park, I was both bemused and disappointed by Mary Gladstone's opinion piece in the Winter edition of ArtWork…
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Making Stirling Great Again
BACK IN 2018 an abandoned retail space in Stirling town centre was given a whole new lease of life. 'Made in Stirling' (MIS) opened its doors, providing the public with a completely different shopping experience…
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Jack Vettriano remembered
IRREVERENT, charming, unique, talented, did not give a damn... a few words to describe the late great Jack Vettriano…
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