Visual Arts
Is beauty in the brain of the beholder?
Have you ever considered why one object of art moved you in its beauty whilst you found another to be…
REVIEW: A Christmas Carol - Ikrismas Kherol, The Young Vic
REVIEW: It’s Dickens: but not as you know him. The Young Vic and Isango/Portobello’s production of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol…
We Are Working – Polish Artists in Scotland
The mass influx of Poles to the United Kingdom since the European Union broadened its reach in 2004 is well…
Career profile: Karen Koren, of the Gilded Balloon
Comedy impresario Karen Koren is the founder of one of Edinburgh’s largest Fringe Festival venues and is responsible for launching…
Get your art on the beach
Whilst in England December spells freezing rain, Christmas shopping frenzies and prolonged spells on the sofa, art lovers may feel…
Go west... life is arty there
In May last year The Times proclaimed the east end to be ‘London’s new Bohemia’. With galleries relentlessly sprouting up…
Please do touch the art!
It’s not every day arts establishments urge spectators to get up close and personal and feel the art work. However…
Career profile: Pete Ferguson, Edinburgh musician
Edinburgh born musician, rapper, poet, promoter and producer Pete Ferguson aka Pedro Solenoid has just finished recording his latest album…
The Middle East film festival season kicks off
For many nations in the Middle East the retreat of the blazing summer heat in about October each year is…
REVIEW: The Painting of Modern Life, The Hayward
"Larger than life, the exhibition is ultimately a journey through versions of reality and questions ways of seeing. It’s definitely…