Arts

A sketch for the David Wilkie painting 'The Reading of a Will'

The Scot who became more than a ‘genre painter’

Sir Geoff Palmer and artist Graham Fagen at the portrait

'Boundary-breaking' portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer set to be showcased

The Lambing Snow is just one of many paintings that will be on display

EXCLUSIVE Former Runrig singer's artwork to be part of new Edinburgh exhibition

Many in the traditional arts and music sector have seen their incomes disappear completely

Stark impact of Covid pandemic on traditional arts in Scotland revealed

The Super Bowl of the fashion industry, it captivates an audience of millions across the world every year

COMMENT Kelly Given: Next year’s Met Gala should honour regal and rebellious tartan

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The current obsession with virtual reality and AI may make live experience all the more appealing, writes Pat Kane

COMMENT How the digital ‘fakeworld’ drives a lust for reality

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Like a creative Tardis, Easterhouse’s Platform has much more on the inside than it promises on the outside

Platform will help artists to form divine connections at festival

Murals will be created in real-time for audiences to enjoy at the Yardworks Festival

Major contemporary urban art festival will showcase top work in Scotland

Miss Peaches will compete in the Miss Continental Northern Europe preliminary this summer

EXCLUSIVE Drag queen to represent Scotland for first time at world's most prestigious pageant

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Photos from the exhibition which will be shown in Wales, Scotland, and Catalonia

Experts hail 'fundamental shift in independence studies' ahead of exhibit launch

RRS Discovery will be one of many venues

Late night contemporary arts festival announces ten events across Scottish city

The tartan exhibition opens on Saturday

Step inside the V&A Dundee for an iconic tartan exhibition

Tiffany Boyle,the new headof exhibitionsat the DundeeContemporaryArts centre,spoke aboutcuration,funding and herearly life as anartist

INTERVIEW The Scot making her mark in the world of art curation

Artist Tim Vincent-Smith at Inverleith House in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens

EXCLUSIVE Founders of Edinburgh's Pianodrome launch venue in America

All the prints are signed by Billy Connolly himself

Latest collection of Billy Connolly artwork goes on sale

Ciaran Ryan and his band will be performing at the Traverse Theatre bar

Edinburgh Tradfest announces 11 days of live music, dance and workshops

The team of Form Digital worked in partnership with Flux Video and motion designer Tiernan Crilley.

Design agency wins campaign for V&A Dundee Tartan exhibition

BRENDA will be appearing at the festival

SNEAK PEAK 'Magic' cocktail of music, dance and art planned for festival comeback

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two) in Edinburgh, which has been closed since October and is set to reopen next month

Scottish gallery to reopen with show charting eight decades of art

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'Alberta Whittle: create dangerously' exhibition speaks to the truth of injustice

'Alberta Whittle: create dangerously' exhibition speaks to the truth of injustice

Stephen Breslin, who heads up the Glasgow Science Centre, has a charity photography exhibition coming up

Photo exhibition to showcase the best of Scotland's landscapes and wildlife

Artist Lorna Miller said she has drawn Nicola Sturgeon less than any other politician but she has still provided plenty of content

EXCLUSIVE Cartoonist on how Nicola Sturgeon 'altered' Scottish politics

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Goldberg Variations will tour Scotland from March. Pic: Hugh Carswell

Scottish ensemble to return to Scotland after touring around world

Gaia! And The Realm of Possibilities, by Gaia R Silvan

Performance festival to return to Scotland packed with new voices

The work of Nan Shepherd was the inspiration for a series of paintings

Exhibition to mark 130th birthday of famed Scottish environmentalist

The Gorbals Boys sculptures before the theft sometime before Monday morning

EXCLUSIVE 'Iconic' Gorbals Boys sculptures FOUND after theft

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke out after an 'iconic' sculpture in her Glasgow constituency was stolen

EXCLUSIVE Nicola Sturgeon condemns theft of 'iconic' sculptures from her constituency

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Two of the three Gorbals Boys bronzes have been cut off and stolen from their Glasgow home

EXCLUSIVE Iconic Gorbals Boys bronze sculptures cut and stolen from Glasgow street

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Artists are playing a key role in innovative projects in hospitals across the country

EXCLUSIVE Artists playing key role in innovative hospital projects

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Those travelling must now fill out a Carnet document, which accounts for each item taken over to Europe and costs around £500

SPECIAL REPORT Scottish culture shut out of EU due to Brexit, industry warn

The Royal National Mòd celebrates Gaelic language, music, and culture

Hosting the Royal National Mod brings £2.5m boost to host Perth

There are calls for Scotland's tattoo industry to be more heavily regulated

EXCLUSIVE Fears over tattoo industry’s regulation as women denounce studios

Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi has been one of the country's most successful recent creative exports

Scotland's arts sector loses millions in funding due to Brexit, analysis finds

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour's new president Angus McEwan will feature

Scottish art society prepares for exhibition under new president

The Burrell Collection re-opened last year

Burrell Collection celebrates major visitor milestone after re-opening

James Cosmo stressed the importance of children reading the Bard's work

Scottish actor James Cosmo recites Robert Burns poem after public vote

Donald Glover’s outstanding comedy-drama series Atlanta deserves multiple viewings

COMMENT Shona Craven: How much great art will be lost due to streaming?

Liz Lochhead is among those set to feature

Literary festival unveils line-up featuring top Scottish talent

The exhibition celebrates pioneering research

Overlooked work of female scientists finally celebrated in exhibition

Spectra will return to Aberdeen and transform some of the city's most famous landmarks

Two festivals that will help chase away the winter blues in Scotland this February

The 'father of documentary' John Grierson praised the work of Scottish filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson

THE BIG READ Scotland's forgotten female photographers and film-makers to be showcased

Vivienne Westwood walks the runway after her Red Label show in 2015

fashion How Vivienne Westwood made a dramatic impact on Scottish fashion

Matthew Arthur Williams says that his stubbornly analogue artistic processes remain ‘really crucial’ to his understanding of its continuing power in the present digital age

The deeply affecting Dundee exhibition exploring Black, queer identity

Caius Bearder has won a prestigious prize for his silversmith work

Glasgow-based silversmith wins prestigious prize for 'exceptional' goblet

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Christina Saunders Robertson was famous in Russia where she achieved high distinction as a portrait painter in that country’s imperial court

back in the day The story of the Scot who became an artist to the Russian Tsars

Lyon & Turnbull associate director Alice Strange with Joan Eardley's The Yellow Jumper

Joan Eardley painting of Glasgow street children sells for record amount at auction

The Italian Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child, painted in Florence in the 1520s, which has been unveiled at Kirkcaldy Galleries in Fife

Conservation work reveals new picture as painting unveiled at Fife museum

The photo book is available to buy online and in pop-ups across the city.

'A celebration in a hard time': collection of Glasgow lockdown portraits launches

'A carefully honed revival of Christopher Hampson’s 2019 ballet The Snow Queen'

REVIEW Warming winter ballet has a chilly theme to savour

Andrew Gannon Drawing Performance 2. Photo by Chris Scott

'This felt radical’: Prosthetics at heart of new Scottish art exhibition

Food packages left in the Empire Theatre auditorium at Eden Court, Inverness during the Covid pandemic in 2020

Highland arts centre axes 10 per cent of staff as opening hours slashed

Spencer Dent Installation © Tiu Makkonen, courtesy of Street Level Photoworks.

REVIEW Glasgow exhibition displays future of photography in Scotland

Cameron Morgan with his prints on display.

Glasgow art charity launches fundraising exhibition

Lorna Miller's (left) new book is a collection of political cartoons which take aim at Boris Johnson

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW 'He made the job easy': Political cartoonist talks Boris Johnson and independence

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