Writing and Publishing
REVIEW: V fest causes festival blues in Staffordshire
It’s hard to imagine that a situation meant to be "entertainment" could be better designed to turn a crowd into…
Career Profile: Maggie Tran, artist
Jesse Errey speaks to Maggie Tran who is a British artist whose work is informed both by her Vietnamese, Chinese…
REVIEW: The Enchantment, the National Theatre
David Trennery finds The Enchantment by Victoria Benedictsson, in a new version by Clare Bayley at the National Theatre, very…
Satisfying compromise
The problem with art is that it costs money to produce. The problem with artists is that they need to…
Fèis Gleann Albainn
While the eyes of the world are focused on Scotland’s capital for the annual ‘gallon in a pint pot’ International…
Career Profile: Nathan Menglef, artist
Nathan Menglef is a self-taught painter, zinester, illustrator, gutter punk and linux geek, originally from Florida but now living, working…
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…
Discovering poetry acorns
In her first column on the arts in Scotland, Rachel Chown looks at the Poetry Library and two poetry events…