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All hands to the (fire) pump!
THE VOLUNTARY networking group Dunfermline Arts and Media (DAM) has been campaigning hard in recent months for the creation of a community creative art centre in Scotland's former capital. For while Edinburgh's arts may be booming, West Fife's is suffering from a haemorrhage of talent...
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Artists' Society comes home again
AFTER LAST year's excursion to Dundee, the Society of Scottish Artists has returned to its traditional home in the RSA Building at the Mound for its 113th Annual Exhibition...
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Culture... shock!
THE RACE to be Britain's first City of Culture has shown up a confusion in the Department of Culture's thinking about what this wheeze is supposed to achieve (at no cost to the taxpayer, by the way - the government is putting no cash into it)...
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Editorial Comment
THE LAUNCH of an international competition to design a 'landmark' building for the outpost of the V&A in Dundee brings the concept one step nearer to reality...
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Dumfries goes with the flow
Twice daily the moon draws up the waters of the earth so that they flood and crash onto shores all round the globe. Twice daily they flow back, leaving behind the debris of the oceans...
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Maxwell Macleod's environmental hot air
ANYBODY who is building a house in the Highlands and who doesn't log into the Government's new feed in tariffs must be off their heads. As Hugh Raven of the Ardtornish HEP project puts it " This is going to change everything."...
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A sense of place
ABERDEEN Art Gallery is to be congratulated on mounting 'Place Observed In Solitude,' a celebration of Frances Walker's work in this, her 80th year...
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MacManus re-born
EVER SINCE the opening of Dundee Contemporary Arts in the Perth Road, with its panoply of bars, restaurants and smaller art galleries either in the Perth Road itself or close to the Dundee Rep in South Tay Street, the west end of the city has been the hub of artistic life in Dundee...
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Briefly...
IN THESE days of financial austerity it is good to hear of one development at least that is going ahead. The Scottish Sculpture Workshop at Lumsden in Aberdeenshire has managed to scrabble together half a million to spend on their sprawling complex on the outskirts of the village...
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ArtWork
'School Bus' one of the superb illustration from the charming portrait of a village, Round a Square, by the Letham based artist Lawrie Harris. A limited edition of 300 copies has been produced, priced at £17.50. Details: 0131 555 6444 www.gicleeuk.com...
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What happened to the toaster?
ART meets science at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster . . . sort of. Well, at least, here is a bunch of artists doing some experiments . . .of a kind, anyway...
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