Prestonpans. A place famous for its Battle, its salt and the lowering power station at neighbouring Cockenzie. Not really well known for its art until now. Next week, this less well- frequented end of the East Lothian tourist route will be turned into a two-mile-long artwork, courtesy of the 3 Harbours Arts Festival. Continue reading ››
Getting your work seen in the increasingly competitive art world is a daunting prospect for young art graduates, and so the annual RSA Exhibition, which is committed to exhibiting work by final year and postgraduate students from the Scottish art colleges and architecture schools, is a wonderful opportunity. Continue reading ››
Dispossessing peoples of their land and corralling them into more manageable townships is an act that has taken place in the name of “civilisation” for centuries. But in Israel, of course, dispossession takes on a whole other resonance. When Moshe Dayan declared in 1963 that in two generations Israel could “fix” the urbanisation of the nomadic Bedouin Arabs, so that “this phenomenon of the Bedouin will disappear”, he clearly never imagined failure. But one look at Ahlam Shibli’s moving photos currently showing at DCA makes one wonder how he would have judged success. Continue reading ››
The path from the portrait of the blond six-year-old Infante Don Luis Maria, which got its first public showing in 200 years this week at the Prado in Madrid, to the brutalised imagery of decapitated bodies hanging from a tree in the National Gallery of Scotland’s much-anticipated Goya print exhibition might seem obscure – but you can’t help thinking you could have seen it coming. The Spaniard’s career as an artist was one of extremes, from the royal court to the war-torn years through which he later lived, and which he was to brutally dissect in print. Continue reading ››
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