David Michalek: Figure Studies & Slow Dancing
When American artist David Michalek showed his extraordinary work Slow Dancing in Edinburgh last summer it was hard to predict where he might go next. His use of a high-speed camera to slow down...
View ArticleIan Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Twilight Remembers (Ingleby Gallery) Ian Hamilton Finlay and The French Revolution (Summerhall) Ian Hamilton Finlay was a classic example of the artist whose name, while it might...
View ArticleRemains To Be Seen: Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann’s exhibition at Summerhall is no less than a coup and hardly less of one than her presence there at its launch. Schneemann is a legend of performance art, her works iconic moments in...
View ArticleWeaving The Century: Tapestry from Dovecot Studios 1912-2012
Tapestry is perhaps the most underplayed of the visual arts, a troubling, hard to define genre, hovering between ‘high’ and ‘applied’ art and craft and this wholly uplifting exhibition goes some way to...
View ArticleVan Gogh to Kandinsky, Symbolist landscape in Europe 1880-1910
This exhibition is a good example of the sort of clever packaging at which our major galleries have become adept. It revels in the title of not one but two big names, but it is the subtitle which gives...
View ArticleEdvard Munch: Graphic Works from the Gundersen Collection
The Scream (in Norwegian Skrik) is undoubtedly Edvard Munch’s most familiar work – an internationally recognised visual image. A version of the work, a lithograph on paper hand-coloured by the artist,...
View ArticleJock McFadyen
In an etching, which lends its title to this important retrospective of the work of Jock McFadyen – dating from 1977 to the present – a woman sitting on a bus vomits onto the neck of another passenger...
View ArticlePhilip Guston: 1913-1980 – Late Paintings
It’s no surprise to learn (from Michael Blackwood’s 1980 documentary, Philip Guston: A Life Lived, which accompanies this show) that Guston’s late paintings, in their marked divergence in technique and...
View ArticleArt & Language
Of all the artists’ movements to come out of the melting pot of the late sixties and seventies, Art& Language was one of the most esoteric and fascinating. The brainchild of Terry Atkinson, Michael...
View ArticleGeorge Wyllie
When George Wyllie died this summer the Scottish art world lost more than one of its leading figures. It lost a unique voice. A voice that for some forty years had not been afraid to shout above the...
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