Art

Delaine Le Bas will be among the artists involved in the Glasgow International visual art festival when it returns in 2024. Picture: Iris Ranzinger

Glasgow’s biggest visual art celebration to scale back for 10th edition in 2024

Francis McKee has been director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow for the last 18 years.

Venue boss warns Glasgow is facing arts ‘blackout’ unless cuts trend is reversed

Installation view of the Zarina Bhimji exhibition at the Fruitmarket PIC: Ruth Clark

Art reviews: Zarina Bhimji | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Billie Zangewa

Exclusive Entry fees on the cards for museums and galleries in Edinburgh

Artist and playwright John Byrne talks to the press to preview the Curtain Up: 40 Years Of Scottish Theatre exhibition at the National Library of Scotland in 2009 (Picture: John Cheskin/PA)

John Byrne was a cultural icon who appeared effortlessly stylish

Why John Byrne's astonishing genius and style was there from the first encounter Joyce McMillan

Dundee Design Festival wil be staged at the site of the former Michelin tyre factory next year.

Festival of design to be staged at home of former Michelin tyre factory

Artist and playwright John Byrne dies aged 83

Stillness, by Victoria Crowe PIC: Scottish Gallery

Art reviews: Victoria Crowe | &Gallery Winter Exhibition

This 1953 collage will be will be among the Eduardo Paolozzi works going on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art next year. Picture: Paolozzi Foundation

100 years of ‘Pop Art’ pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi to be celebrated in Edinburgh

Installation view of Sounding Line by Mella Shaw PIC: Jenny Harper

Artist and activist Mella Shaw on her new exhibition at Summerhall

Vulcan by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi is among the sculptures already on display at Edinburgh Park. Picture: Laurence Winram

Scottish sculptors get chance to create work for new Edinburgh ‘culture quarter’

Statactite, by Dorothy Cross PIC: Sally Jubb / Courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh

Art reviews: The Recent | Liza Sylvestre | Thomas Abercromby

Work by the artist Alberta Whittle will be going on display on billboards across Edinburgh next month.

Artist’s work to been seen on advertising billboards across Edinburgh

Actress Tilda Swinton will play the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in the new film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things. Picture: Frazer Harrison

Tilda Swinton to portray celebrated Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

David Moore and Kate Davis with their work Bass Rock, which won the LAPECA Scottish Landscape Award PIC: Greg Macvean

Art reviews: The Scottish Landscape Awards | Borrowed Land

Washroom Chapals, Halima, by Adil Iqbal

Art reviews: Crafted Selves | Otolith Group

Glen Scotia and Alice Angus's artwork and the 49-year-old whisky

Whisky’s links to art and how taste and location inspire artists

Detail of Sam Howard's Portrait of Scottish surfing pioneer Willie Tait PIC: Samuel Howard

Photographer Samuel Howard brings Scottish surf scene into focus

The 'Bouchardon Bust' was discovered by Councillor Maxine Smith in 1998 propping open a door of a council shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, in the late 1990s. A mystery buyer has now offered £2.5m for the piece.

Highland town to decide future of £2.5m sculpture once used as a doorstop

Dr Godfrey Evans, of National Museums Scotland, with the Panmure ewer and basin from the Earl of Dalhousie. PIC: Stewart Attwood/National Museums Scotland/PA Wire.

Rare 16th-century pieces from aristocratic family’s silver passed to nation

Summerhall has been hosting cultural shows and events since 2011.

New theatre, film, music and art to be championed under Edinburgh venue shake-up

Casablanca at the Cameo, by Henry Kondracki

Art reviews: Henry Kondracki | Tom Wilson | Ann Ross | Nick Goss

Dr Colin McIIroy is manuscripts curator at the National Library of Scotland.

Opening up ‘treasure trove’ archives of celebrated writers

Artist George Nuku PIC: Stewart Attwood

How artist George Nuku is tackling plastic pollution one installation at a time

Artist and sculptor George Wyllie.

Waterfront gallery honouring artist who drew inspiration from Clyde set to open

Installation view of Beagles & Ramsay: NHOTB & RAD at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow PIC: Paul Watt

Art reviews: Beagles & Ramsay | Rhona Mühlebach | Alberta Whittle

Detail from After, After, After, Monarch of the Glen, 2012, by Peter Saville and Dovecot Studios PIC: Sam Dunne

Art reviews: Monarchs of the Glen | Making Space - Photographs of Architecture

The National Gallery is based on The Mound in Edinburgh.

National Galleries unveils first female leader in its 173-year history

Exclusive National Museum admits it is at risk of long-term decline over funding cuts

Max Machen Yee Haa print

Glasgow Print Fair at The Lighthouse returns

Humza Yousaf. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Humza Yousaf to announce extra NHS and arts funding as he seeks to shift focus

Installation view of work by Ghislaine Leung at the Turner Prize 2023, Towner, Eastbourne PIC: Angus Mill

Art review: The Turner Prize 2023, Towner, Eastbourne

Accordionist Ryan Corbett, from Milngavie, plays in a field of sunflowers at Balgone, East Lothian, for the launch of the classical music Lammermuir Festival which opens on September 7 across East Lothian. Picture date: Wednesday August 30, 2023.

Scottish Government accused of ‘abandoning’ the arts as industry plans protest

King Alexander III, c1633, by George Jamesone

Art reviews: George Jamesone | John Byrne | Una Shanks & Duncan Shanks

Rachel Brooks first learned to dive in Australia but has been living on the west coast of Scotland for the past three years, where she takes inspiration from local marine life for her artworks and mission to help conserve threatened species

Swimming with sharks: The Scottish ‘artivist’ using ink to save marine life

Joanna Lumley's pangolin

Fancy an original artwork by Alexander McCall Smith or another celebrity?

The new Scottish galleries at the National Gallery in Edinburgh will open to the public on 30 September. Picture: Campbell Donaldson

Review: New National Gallery spaces 'triumph of space, light and shadow'

An image from Iman Tajik's series of photographs, The Dreamers

Season of plenty: Autumn art highlights across Scotland

Exclusive National Gallery reveals new spaces showcasing Scottish art treasures

Sweetie Grabber by Liam McGrady

Art review: The Big Art Show, The Art Department, Paisley

Leonie Bell is director of V&A Dundee.

V&A Dundee reveals ambitions to take tartan exhibition around the world

Mara Barth

National Gallery of Scotland: the staff's sneak preview

A still from Svikiro by Sekai Machache

Art reviews: Sekai Machache | Rachel Eulena Williams

V&A Dundee has transformed the city's waterfront (Picture: Hufton & Crow)

Dundee's V&A museum is a wonder of Scotland

The V&A Dundee museum opened in September 2018.

V&A Dundee hailed as 'symbol of the city's ambitions' ahead of fifth birthday

The Dundee Contemporary Arts centre has been open since 1999.

Dundee’s international art centre issues closure warning over funding crisis

Alasdair Gray pictured with the mural in 2014.. Photo: John Devlin

Alasdair Gray mural to go on display at gallery where he spent ‘happiest times’

Alasdair Gray pictured with his mural, Cowcaddens Streetscape In The Fifties, in 2014 (Picture: John Devlin)

Alasdair Gray mural is a masterpiece Scotland can display with pride

The exhibition Warhol: The Textiles will run at the Dovecot Studios gallery in Edinburgh from 26 January-1 June next year. Image: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by DACS, London

Recently-discovered Andy Warhol work to be showcased in Edinburgh exhibition

Work by Christina Riley for Art Walk Porty PIC: Sally Jubb

Art review: Art Walk Porty, various locations, Portobello

Curator Georgina Ripley puts the finishing touches to Beyond the Little Black Dress at the National Museum of Scotland PIC: Duncan McGlynn

Art reviews: Beyond the Little Black Dress | Rising Tide

Banksy's first solo exhibition recently appeared in Glasgow. Image: Stefano Guidi/Getty Images

Who is Banksy? Each Banksy identity theory from least to most likely

Installation view of the Christian Noelle Charles exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers PIC: Alan Dimmick

Art reviews: Nat Raha | Christian Noelle Charles + more

Grayson Perry and architect Charles Holland. © Katie Hyams

The art of travel: Step into Grayson Perry’s Essex fairy tale

Installation view of Anne Redpath and her Circle at the Maltings, Berwick Upon Tweed PIC: Mark Pinder

Art Reviews: Anne Redpath and her Circle+ more

A still from History of the Present, by Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Alberta Whittle | Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon

Alberta Whittle's tapestry Entanglement Is More Than Blood (2022) Picture: Neil Hanna/National Galleries of Scotland

Festival pledges ‘extreme care’ on sponsors over 'greenwashing' row

Kim McAleese, director of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Picture: Neil Hanna

Edinburgh Art Festival director Kim McAleese on her vision for the event

Lively Blue by Sekai Machache and Dovecot Studios

Art reviews: Scottish Women Artists | Elizabeth Blackadder | A Journey Shared

A scene from History of the Present. Picture: Contributed

Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon on "opera film" History of the Present

Detail from Washed Up V, by David Behrens

Art review: Pittenweem Arts Festival, various venues, Pittenweem

Raffle tickets with a chance to win the decorated sheep from the Flock to the Show art exhibition go on sale (pic: Ian Georgeson/RHASS)

Raffle tickets on sale for chance to win Royal Highland Show sheep statues

Installation view of the Leonor Antunes exhibition at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh PIC: Nick Ash

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Leonor Antunes | Jessie Jones

Last chance to see 'stolen' totem pole as museum starts removal work

Grayson Perry with his exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy PIC: Nick Mailer

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Grayson Perry | Lindsey Mendick

Paolo Nutini gears up to perform at the Royal Highland Showgrounds in August

Paolo Nutini announces new outdoor concert at Royal Highland Showgrounds

Colleagues from Stoddard & Co, the Renfrewshire carpet factory which inspired John Byrne's play The Slab Boys, were reunited as part of a research project for a new display honouring the writer at Paisley Museum.

Workers from factory which inspired John Byrne to write The Slab Boys reunited

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries