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'Major tapestry' of New York nightlife comes to Edinburgh
FROM BEING a theatre actor on the New York stage and touring the globe in an acappella group, to running your own Sing Along Piano bar in Edinburgh is not your average career move – via owning a bar in Portugal – and throw into this mix a very successful career as a fine art photographer and you might wonder if there is anything that MattColagiuri can't actually do? Yet meeting him at his new music bar in the west end of Edinburgh you can see why success has come his way so effortlessly with his relaxed and cool style…
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Editorial Comment
SAME OLD SUBJECT – same depressing lack of any glimpses of sanity from the Government…
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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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The contribution of the arts is nationwide
THE RELATIONSHIP between artists and their patrons is often tense. Not surprising given that creativity demands breaking rules, exploring new expression, thinking the unthinkable. All anathema to any form of bureaucratic control, patronage, or financial support, which always comes with strings, or even ropes…
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Hidden art of Palestine
EDINBURGH is set to be the location for the first museum dedicated to contemporary Palestinian art in Europe. The new museum, Palestine Museum Scotland, in the city's Georgian New Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and local arts hub, will occupy a roughly 1,100-square-foot space in an 1810 building at 13a Dundas Street, the former location of the Arusha Gallery…
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Winifred Nicholson's Cumbrian rag rugs
THIS EXHIBITION will floor you with the off-the-wall creativity of a group of Cumbrian rag rug makers led and inspired by the painter Winifred Nicholson. Dissolving any barriers between art and craft, recognising that it's all about imagining and making images, regardless of format, medium, or placement. It's also a special opportunity to see, on the wall, some of her best paintings that are not often on public view…
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What? Some good news for a change?
I BEGAN my career as a researcher for the Paul Mellon Foundation into the history of the The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI), founded 1861. Back then it hosted the largest art exhibitions outside London with a membership of 2000 including the Glasgow Boys – and Girls, Scottish Colourists, Mackintosh & Joan Eardley…
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Is he mad – or just an immoral genius?
TODAY the most commonly asked question in global politics is whether Trump is crazy, you will hear it being discussed from China to Russia and increasingly in the States…
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A – wintry – view from the North
Galloway; 'Forgotten..moribund and off the map.'? No thanks. As a professional artist who's lived in Galloway for nearly twenty years and spent most of the last seven campaigning for a National Park, I was both bemused and disappointed by Mary Gladstone's opinion piece in the Winter edition of ArtWork…
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From cave art on – art and war
FOLLOWING the marking of VE Day thoughts turn to war and the devastation it causes. Within art history, artists’ engagement with war and conflict can be traced back as a far as the first humans. Some cave paintings reveal images of combat with weaponry clearly indicated. Throughout history artistic depictions have recorded how humans have created conflict and the residual effects of this unfortunate aspect of life…
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Another Auld Alliance - with Poland
THE 80th CELEBRATION of VE Day revives with crystal clarity my own personal memories of that day. They are interwoven with my memories of the day when Nazi Germany Blitzkrieged Poland and the Second World War began…
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