Tag: Edinburgh

  • Pin-Ups: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity

    In these prints of Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries bear witness to the enduring appeal of illusion, suggestion and nostalgia

  • Isa Genzken: Botanical Garden

    The beautiful surroundings of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden provide the backdrop for German artist Isa Genzken’s humorous, disturbing and powerful work from the past decade, including photographs, collages and, most arresting of all, mannequins.

  • Calum Colvin: interview

    Calum Colvin talks to Christiana Spens about the influences behind his art and photography, his feelings about contemporary Scottish society, and how, if he had the budget, he would like to make a film.

  • Richard Hamilton: ‘Protest pictures’

    Inverleith House, Edinburgh 31 July-12 October 2008

  • A gift horse in the mouth: the Artists Rooms project and the d’Offay bequest 2008

    On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Before the assembled British art luminaries, news was announced of possibly the greatest art bequest of the twentieth century and to date. Anthony d’Offay…

  • Joan Eardley

    Joan Eardley’s life was cut tragically short by cancer in 1963 at the age of 42. Born in England she spent her life in Scotland, after studying at the Glasgow School of Art. Two subjects dominate the retrospective exhibition at…

  • Picasso in Edinburgh

    Picasso on Paper Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. 14 July – 23 September 2007

  • RSA 181st Annual Exhibition

    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 5 May-20 June 2007

  • Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

    The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…