Art

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.”

Dame Vivienne Westwood would welcome Greta Thunberg as leader of the world.

Alan Smith’s death adds a poignancy to his show created during the Brexit vote. By Susan Mansfield

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.

Tsars in our eyes: the art of royalty

Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow could all make a bid to become Scotland’s leading city of culture, writes Brian Ferguson.

THE distance between arts and sciences tends to be described as a gulf that needs bridging, and there are an increasing number of projects encouraging (and funding) artists to cross over. The results can be illuminating, if occasionally baffling for the non-scientist; the best provide new ways of seeing the world.

I first bit Macrobert’s hand off approximately nine years ago. At school I was given a taste of how liberating drama could be. In a way it was the proverbial lifeboat in a raging sea of awkwardness. I was still me, yet, amazingly, I found that I could articulate. I could be ­anything and anyone. Give me a script or a scenario and I could be someone confident and bubbly who could act and dance and si... – well actually no, still couldn’t sing. One step at a time, right?

The Isle of Lewis is pickin’ up good migrations thanks to its thriving surf scene. In a new exhibition at An Lanntair in Stornoway, local artist Laura Maynard tells the stories of some of these hardy wave-seekers in a series of stunning portraits

300 years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, artist Roger Palmer discusses his ambitious photography project at Kirkcaldy Galleries, which took him from Lower Largo to Chile’s Isla Robinson Crusoe

The Cordis Prize tapestries show that skill is not the enemy of creativity, but a vehicle to extend its ambition still further

Traditional skills are to the fore at the Hunterian and in the work of Sarah Longley, whose show explores her relationship with her famous father

Beating more than 300,000 entries from across the globe, an Edinburgh photographer is the only Scottish professional to be shortlisted for a prestigious award in Sony’s internationally acclaimed competition.

Based in Tayport and a graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Marian Leven could perhaps be described as an east coast artist, but the paintings on show at the Open Eye were inspired by an area of coast in the north-west of Scotland. She has made a beautiful exhibition out of the analogy between watercolour – the way it moves and its transparency – and actual water, of light on water, of the waves and the tide over the shore, but also of the atmosphere where water is suspended as vapour in the air.