Visual Arts
Going green
This year environmental sustainability has become 'de rigueur' in the arts. What are some of the green initiatives that have…
Dull, delightful, dazzling: Edinburgh Art Festival
Gordon Haynes takes in three city centre exhibitions as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival and finds them "Dull, delightful…
Career Profile: Martin Ritchie, actor
Martin Ritchie has performed in a number of titles at London's Globe, alongside various other film and theatre projects, and…
Introducing memetics for the arts
As a young artist, there was something about this thing we call ‘Art’ that didn’t quite compute with Anna Howitt…
How to catch a shark, part two: Art that dare not speak its maker’s name
In part one of our look at copyright in the art world, we discovered – shock horror – that Damien…
How to catch a shark, part one: Whose copyright is it anyway?
When Damien Hirst unveiled his diamond-encrusted skull, hands up all those who thought he’d sat up all night sticking the…
Artist interview: Jenny Matthews
"On the first floor of Edinburgh College of Art at the end of a corridor overlooking the Sculpture Court, I…
Empty Skulls and Pearly Kings
Moogee gets snarly about skulls, commercialism and the art world.
A Passage to India
ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA: In 2006 I travelled to India and spent a month discovering and working with artists trained in…
Jardins Publics: The history and role of gardens in life, art and Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival invited the curator Katrina Brown to conceive of a series of events which celebrate and draw attention…