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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Marina Warner Forms of Enchantment Edinburgh book festival 2024

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  Paula Rego war 2003 New Ways of Beauty -   “We fight back with beauty”   Warner spoke of her experiences in Paris in the 60s, which offere...
Thursday, 30 November 2023

New Scottish Art Galleries BURNS excluded

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  Burns and other poets) wrote with Scots voices and language - why is Robert Burns not included here? At a time when mainly English Tory un...
Saturday, 30 September 2023

New National Scottish Gallery at the National gallery

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  Margaret MacDonald Brand new galleries have been built behind the Mound art galleries Edinburgh to be a new and open home to display Scott...
Monday, 31 July 2023

Brexit Cancellations for UK Musicians & the Arts

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Costs of Brexit – The UK music industry WAS worth 6 billion before Brexit!   NOW There is a 5 stops rule for British musicians touring Europ...
Thursday, 29 June 2023

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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  This is one of the best films about the power of art. Art as protest!   She went to war for the people she loved and who loved her back – ...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Finland Awakes, Art & Culture shape our Destiny

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Music crosses borders but also expresses our souls   "Finland doesn’t have   a history of kings and castles. We have always been occupi...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Scottish Art and Anti-Scottish lobby

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  The Scottish Reformation 16 th  century introduced a democratic structure to run the church and education for all. Scots were the most edu...
Monday, 30 August 2021

Ali Smith’s film 'Art in a Time of Lies' at Edinburgh International book festival 2021

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  Seeing Things - short film with wonderful images by film maker Wood   Edinburgh International book festival 2021   The highly-respected Sc...
Friday, 17 May 2019

Victoria Morton's painting Soliton Kelvingrove

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At Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, from the Hamilton Bequest (since 1927), there are  world-renowned works by Glasgow B...
Sunday, 31 March 2019

Photos 2018

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2018 was a confusing year.  In Scotland we enjoyed the grand opening of the new V & A Dundee, which is a wondrous new landmark a...