The stage is set for the biggest cultural exchange to date at this year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival, which will host 15 guest artists from Canada along with 60 home grown storytellers.
The Vikings arrived in Orkney in the late 8th century – and remained for another 500 years. They first came to flee an emerging new monarchy in Norway with these exiled sea pirates using the islands to launch their own voyages and raids.
Artists and astronomers are to join forces to stage special events at a new stargazing festival aimed at persuading people to visit the Outer Hebrides in the depths of winter.
Jack Vettriano, the self-taught Scottish artist who became an international sensation, has revealed he has almost given up painting new work - as he had admitted he had struggled to find the motivation and inspiration since suffering a serious injury at home four years ago.
An artist who received £15,000 in public funding to stay in Glasgow for a year has told how the "social media ****storm" inspired her to write a book about the controversial project
The director of V&A Dundee has pledged that its exhibitions programme will be more Scottish in future as he admitted the amount of permanent gallery space celebrating the nation’s best designers is “not enormous.”
Scotland’s rising poetry stars are being challenged to create a piece of work for a David Mach-designed arts venue and events space on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Scotland’s rising poetry stars are being challenged to create a piece of work for a David Mach-designed arts venue and events space on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Art experts have concluded that a painting in a stately home’s collection which was thought to be by Raphael is unlikely to be the work of the Renaissance master.
