Visual Arts
ART FAIR REVIEW - Frieze Art Fair 2009
This time round though the yearly extravaganza took a rather sober stance and as a regular one couldn’t help but…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW - Terry O'Neill 'Behind the Scenes', Getty Images Gallery
If you’re into visually digging deep into the tabloid fillers of back in the day, ‘Behind The Scenes’ is the…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW: Unordinary People - Royal Albert Hall
“A celebration of today’s multicultural, multi-class and multi-ageist British youth" - it manages to make one want to have been…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Artist Rooms, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Despite the sign there are no paths, only grassed banks and ramps, so this interactive sculpture is only good until…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: The National Gallery of Scotland
The National Gallery complex on Edinburgh’s Mound is the capital’s top free visitor attraction. Walk through Playfair’s stripped classical, red…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Four Scottish Painters, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
This spring the Dean is showing the works of four Scottish painters: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, John Bellany, Alan Davie and Anne…
On Course for Your Career
So you want a career in the creative arts... but where do you start? Should you jump straight in or…
The Best of Times is Now
I’ve never been politically driven but I was amazed how many people were offended enough to leave the auditorium (invariably…
Nostalgia vs Future
It’s not just that Barcelona’s avant-garde doesn’t want to grow up. Nostalgia is a creeping phenomenon.
Re-imaging communities
Murals feature on many a bus or taxi-tour of Belfast, but the powers that be say that any overtly sectarian…