Visual Arts
Platform 6: Creative (thinking) Scotland
"CultureScotland.com is going to have much in common with the workings of a particularly complicated industrial process (as well as…
Seeking asylum and embracing theatre
Theatre has always been a brilliant tool that practitioners have used to entertain and inform people about issues within various…
A greeting card Christmas
Britain has the most successful greetings card industry in the world. We spend more on them than we do on…
Dancing on Water – Why Sadler’s Wells has a spring in its step
Best known nowadays as a leading venue for international and UK dance theatre, Sadler’s Wells is not only one of…
Preserving the UK's heritage through dance
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a grant of £50,000 to Ascendance Rep towards the ‘Your Space’ project. The unique…
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…