The Landscapes of Paul Nash.
An exhibition of Paul Nash’s paintings is wandering around the country. They were in London last year; now they are …
Tag Archives: Art
Arts Review: Beyond Caravaggio.
Before us is Tychy’s renowned oil painting, “Visitors to the Scottish National Gallery looking at Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’.” …
Just the Thing: A Christmas Story.
Caspar had been recruited for some of the deception and he had been bemused, dubious, patient up until things looked …
Arts Review: Surreal Encounters.
I visited Surreal Encounters, the summertime show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, around a month ago. Afterwards …
Arts Review: David Forster’s “Passages.”
It is as if nature is officially announcing that winter is over. There is the gaiety of a blue sky …
Art and Democracy: The Glasgow Effect.
There are two stories in today’s media coverage which show how absurd things can get on the opposite extremes of …
An Open Letter to Fiona Hyslop.
[Tychy today publishes an open letter to the Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop, MSP, from the Sunday Herald’s theatre critic Mark …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Pope Head.
On a second visit to the Summerhall this Fringe I am confronted in the entrance lobby by a quotation from …
Arts Review: The Amazing World of MC Escher.
My lack of patience with M.C. Escher is a thread which I can trace all the way back to a …
Boycott the Edinburgh Fringe!
Tychy has today received an open letter signed by fifty of Scotland’s leading arts figures, including the national poet Liz …
Museum Review: Ming, the Golden Empire.
Today I am a superman, touring an entire civilisation in two hours and finishing it all off with a review. …
Arts Review: Poster Art of Modern China.
“Poster Art of Modern China” is up and running on Chambers Street until the 12th July. There is propaganda and …
On the Road with National Collective.
It was a stunning afternoon in July and a matter of weeks until the day of the vote. By the …
Edinburgh and the Union in Ten Statues.
You encounter these creatures on either side of the entrance to the Scottish National War Memorial, or carved gorgeously in …
The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby, by W.F. Harvey (18/20).
“GENUINE CONSTABLES” (2/2). [The two recent editions of William Fryer Harvey’s short stories from Tartarus Press and Wordsworth Classics have …
