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New Work Scotland Programme: Ash Reid, Jack McConville, Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby

The Cooling Room by Jack McConville. 2011

Scottish graduates collaborate again through the New Work Scotland Programme 2011

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Hypolix - Cate Smith, Justine King & Sarah Oskarsson »

Hypolix - Cate Smith, Justine King & Sarah Oskarsson

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The latest exhibition at Whitespace, entitled Hypolix, offers the work of three students from Edinburgh College of Art: Justine King, Sara Oskarsson and Cate Smith. The artists have utilised the gallery space effectively in order to create a ‘con...

Fri 10 Feb 2012 by Kathryn Lloyd | Read more »

Holocaust Memorial Day - Ernest Levy Archive images »

Ernest Levy as a Young Man

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Ernest Levy, the subject of the Central Library’s current exhibition, survived the holocaust, moved to Scotland and spent the majority of his life sharing his story in a bid to promote tolerance and understanding. The Ernest Levy archive was dona...

Fri 10 Feb 2012 by Carly Shearer | Read more »

Roger Ackling »

Installation view, Roger Ackling

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The Ingleby Gallery's most recent exhibition features resident artist Roger Ackling and project artist Andrew Miller. Entering the gallery, Millers work is located in a small room to left of the reception. Miller’s Barbara Anne has an immediate v...

Fri 10 Feb 2012 by Joe Etchell | Read more »

The Muppets make a return appearance at Glasgow Film Theatre »

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The Muppets have returned to our screens and to thunderous applause at the Glasgow Film Theatre. Screen 1 of the GFT may have had its fair share of noisy children and screaming babies, but nothing could drown out the booming laughter of the old and the...

Wed 08 Feb 2012 by Blair Dingwall | Read more »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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David Fincher’s film requires some justification: was there any need (except, of course, financially, for Sony) to make a second adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s 2005 best-selling novel? This new super-production does not add anything signific...

Wed 08 Feb 2012 by Alexandre Johnston | Read more »

The Mulroy »

When heading out for a Christmas lunch, one expects to merrily succumb to a barrage of cliché dishes, slightly underwhelming cranberry sauce and an overdose of house wine. This year, however, we found a pleasant surprise waiting at the Mulroy, t...

Tue 07 Feb 2012 by Kaylyn Hawkes | Read more »

Fashion guru plans to be Hair for long time to come »

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“Not hair for a long time. Hair for a good time.” That is the motto of ‘Hair For Heros’ heroine and out-there genius Lou Clavé who last week shared her colourful fashion work with The Journal at a time bold hair is bang on trend. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Nadine Walker | Read more »

Late comic opera at the centre of latest student collaboration »

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Now in its seventh successive year, the prestigious and much coveted collaboration between the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly known as the RSAMD) and Scottish Opera has come to define the Winter season for students. A selection of the fines...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Ottavia Elisabetta Miorelli | Read more »

Waltz With Bashir »

Waltz Withe Bashir

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Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary, a potent exploration of director Ari Folman's own experience of war. It's told as he tries to piece together his fractured memories of the major Israeli incursion into Lebanon in 1982. Waltz with Bashir is ...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Chico & Rita »

Chico & Rita

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In 2008 Mark Kermode called Chico & Rita 'One of the 10 best films of the year' and with its cracking soundtrack and charming visual aesthetic it's not too hard to see why. Talented Spanish director Fernando Trueba invokes the tradition of the...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Hamletmachine »

Hamletmachine

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The Traverse Theatre’s annual visual theatre festival, Manipulate, is always a highlight in its Spring/Summer season and this year promises to be no different. The festival's opening production is Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine, performed by...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale

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Director Liz Walker’s work has been challenging the British audiences perception of puppetry since she co-founded Optic Theatre Company in 1987. Her work today continues to do so as she brings us Plucked...A True Fairy Story a charming tale deliv...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Kirsty Wither: New Paintings »

Foot of the Castle by Kirtsy Wither.

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A combination of oil paintings lines the walls of the Open Eye Gallery. At first glance the work seems like any other collection of still life and landscape, yet on closer observation the unique application of paint reveals itself to the viewer. One c...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Harry Dougall | Read more »

Rob Fairley: Retrospective with New Works »

Kindertotenlieder by Rob Fairley

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The Open Eye Gallery, a bright and contemporary space in Edinburgh’s New Town, have been exhibiting the work of Rob Fairley since the early eighties. Fairley studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before returning to Mallaig, in the Highlands o...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Pippa Atkins | Read more »

Poetic Licence »

Shakespeare's Sonnet, by Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE

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Mark-making is a game of construction: the gestural language of creation. In poetry and in painting, mark-makers build on two very distinct vocabularies in order to achieve diverse results. The processes, however, are not so dissimilar. At the Union G...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »

Anna Barriball »

Untitled by Anna Barriball. 2011

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Whilst the premise of this exhibition sounds unique and exciting, the overall effect may leave some with a lot to be desired. Anna Barriball produces work that falls neither in the category of drawing or sculpture but is a hybrid of both concepts, push...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

Hot Scots »

Karen Gillan by Suki Dhanda. 2010

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‘Connecting the past with the present’ – one of the main aims of the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but an endeavour that is unfortunately lost in the Hot Scots exhibition on show in the Contemporary Gallery. T...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Emily Burke | Read more »

Swedish trio gear up for a storming 2012 »

Niki & The Dove

First off, thank you for taking the time to talk to us while you are in the middle of finishing your album. GK – No problem, thank you for taking your time. Having formed in 2010 how does it feel to have reached such dizzy heights alrea...

Fri 03 Feb 2012 by Tom Collins | Read more »

Weeks has an obvious way with words »

The Maccabees

Tasty snacks – that’s the first sight that greets you on arrival in the Maccabees’ room at Glasgow University’s QM Union. A lengthy table groaning with tasty snacks. Scattered around are various Maccabees seated in laidbac...

Fri 03 Feb 2012 by Andrew Chamberlain | Read more »

Upmarket food for downmarket prices »

I always try my best not to follow the crowd when writing up bar and restaurant reviews. I feel it is important to gauge the wider, overall standard of the city’s cuisine rather than judge on one or two of its most famous offerings – as m...

Fri 03 Feb 2012 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »

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