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Ruskin's earthly treasures
COVERING Brantwood's latest exhibition in writing is difficult. The house's original owner, the celebrated Victorian polymath John Ruskin, famously thought drawing possesses a power of description 'greater in most instances than that of words…
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Roll up! Roll Up! – at a gentle trot?
AS COUNTRY FAIRS and agricultural shows go in Scotland, you can't get posher (at least, in venue) than the Galloway Country Fair. Established in the early 2000s, it moved 14 years ago to the grounds of Drumlanrig Castle, the Dumfries-shire home of the Duke of Buccleuch, one of the richest men in the UK…
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Editorial Comment
Step forward again Australia for having the courage to look Big Tech squarely in the eye and – instead of a display of hand wringing – take some action…
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A Smart Search Box can produce better sales results at minimal cost!
THE IMPORTANCE of accurately searching online content of an organisation's website could not be overemphasised as it could help enhance further interests in the business and eventually increase the overall revenue…
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Glasgow's iconic 'Mack'…
THE fast growing campaign to get Glasgow School of Art's world famous Mackintosh Building (The Mack) rebuilt, is at last starting to have results. Now the ball is rolling the sense of tragic loss is tinged with some optimistic rumblings - a feeling of hope for a future rebuild…
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Ceramics painted with smoke – and more…
VISITING Yorkshireman Henry Moore's studio in 1969, he showed me a small clay maquette of a reclining figure, one of six to be much enlarged and cast in bronze. Asking what happened next, he said his team would do the rest. Each later valued at £ 3M, so £ 18M in total. Not a bad return on a morning's work!…
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S. J. Peploe – still pulling in the crowds in the Artists' Town
THREE QUARTERS of the way through its four month summer exhibition, Colour: The Palette of S.J. Peploe, Kirkcudbright Galleries have drawn almost 20,000 visitors through their door…
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The Coast starts in the heart of East Lothian
SUMMER, 1965, I'm in the Pieter Bruegel room at the Kunsthistoriches in Vienna, home to twelve masterpieces. My dad sets me a puzzle – find Icarus. It makes me look, closely and carefully. But it's a trick question. "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", is actually in Brussels, probably a copy…
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Stories from a Festive piano
AS AUTUMN approaches, the quest for those tunes that make you excited to come home and relax as the weather gets duller looms in tandem with the clouds…
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Smile please! That'll be just £5
TUCKED INSIDE Street Level Photoworks, the Glasgow based gallery in the Merchant City, sits a small golden box: the Photoautomat. Transported from Berlin to Glasgow by the photographer Simon Murphy, this vintage, coin-operated photobooth is a stark contrast to how we’re used to taking photos today. There are no screens, no previews or endless retakes, just £5, five minutes and four photos.…
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