Arts Review: the Knife Angel.
The countryside around the British Ironwork Centre is big and fair. There are immense blowsy trees that stand, watching almost …
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Arts Review: David Forster’s Edgelands.
“Is that…? No, it can’t be… Oh no, it definitely is!” It’s tippex! I should state immediately that I have …
Should St Peter’s Seminary be Left to the Wilderness?
St Peter’s Seminary stands ruined in the woods outside Cardross. It is a two hour and twenty minute train ride …
What is the Use of “Artists for Brexit”?
Let me plunge you back into the cauldron of 2014. Scotland is in the midst of – of all things! …
A Christmas Story (4/4): Unwrapping the Gift Under the Tree.
The feeling that Reggie Quintus is currently experiencing is as powerful as grief, though it has crept up on him …
A Christmas Story (3/4): Chainsaws!
It is midwinter in Berlin and the cold is as dry and fine as powder. The neighbourhoods north of the …
A Christmas Story (2/4): The Chateau.
“Welcome to my château.” The Duc beamed like some ghastly unseeing machinery; he wiped his hands upon an untucked shirt …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Rape of Artemisia Gentileschi.
With “Beyond Caravaggio” as this year’s summer exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, it is fortuitous that the Space on …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Caravaggio, Between The Darkness.
As randomly as these things recur, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is out and about around town again this summer. The …
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 …
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 …
