Art

Sir John Leighton will step down as director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland in February. Picture: Bryan Robertson

National Galleries of Scotland chief to step down after 18 years

Sir William Gillies will be among the artists featured at the Scottish Gallery during the inaugural NT Art Month in Edinburgh's New Town in June.

Edinburgh's New Town to host new month-long art festival

Joan Eardley is among the painters who will be featured in the Dovecot Studios exhibition Scottish Women Artists - 250 Years of Challenging Perception.

Exhibition to celebrate 250 years of trailblazing female artists in Scotland

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's Modern Two building will reopen at the end of April.

National Galleries to reopen attraction after six month closure

Shonaig Macpherson has been appointed hair of the Edinburgh International Cultural Summit, which is held every two years.

Former National Trust chief to head up Edinburgh's global culture summit

Kim McAleese was appointed director of the Edinburgh Art Festival last year.

Edinburgh Art Festival scales back to ease pressure on staff

The Royal Mile thronged with visitors watching street theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Picture: David Monteith-Hodge

Intrigue and change are in the air over future shape of Edinburgh’s festivals

Whisky and vodka will be made at the new art gallery dstillery complex at Jupiter Artland.

Jupiter Artland to create ‘art gallery distillery' centre under expansion vision

It is a mistake to take Edinburgh Festival for granted (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Politicians must help Edinburgh Festival, not make its plight worse

Shona McCarthy has warned of a social, cultural and economic disaster unless extra arts funding can be found (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Scotland's arts sector must be nursed through the cost-of-living crisis

The life and career of the artist Grayson Perry will be celebrated at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2023. Picture: Annar Bjørgli

Grayson Perry' 40-year career to be celebrated in Edinburgh exhibition in 2023

Visitor attractions face cutting back hours

Opening hours set to be cut back at one in four Scottish visitor attractions

The former Scottish Widows building on Dalkeith Road will host Edinburgh's 'Hidden Door' festival in 2023. Picture: James Duncan

Hidden Door: Festival to be staged at former Scottish Widows headquarters

A portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth is currently on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Picture: Neil Hanna

National Galleries of Scotland issues closure warning over growing cash 'crisis'

Protect Scotland's cultural assets from 'perfect storm' of economic troubles

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Leaving The Mosque, Midday, by Leon Morrocco

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A new public square and 'sunken garden' have been created as part of a culture quarter at Edinburgh Park.

Developers behind Edinburgh’s new art trail launch festivals bid

Soo Burnell Pic: Maria Portway

Gleneagles Townhouse launches exhibition of swimming pool photographs

Artist Kostya Benkovich presents his sculpture The Suitcase at the Assembly Gardens in Edinburgh

Festival Fringe: Russian artist highlights the plight of refugees

Detail from Accomplice 1 and 2, by Nadia Myre PIC: Rachel McBrinn

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Nadia Myre | Tessa Lynch | Platform

Kim McAleese is the new director of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh Art Festival: New director wants to see work transforming public space

Dr Tacye Phillipson and Steven Anderson install the 1728 painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Willem Röell by Cornelis Troost at the National Museum of Scotland. On loan from Amsterdam Museum, it is one of more than 200 objects on display in Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life. PIC: Neil Hanna Photography

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Anatomy - A Matter of Death and Life | Alan Davi...

Installation shot of Cooking Sections' show at Climate House PIC: Neil Hanna

Edinburgh Art Festival reviews: Cooking Sections & Sakiya | Celine Condorelli | ...

I Lay Here For You by Tracey Emin at Jupiter Artland PIC: Allan Pollok-Morris

Art reviews: Tracey Emin | Abbas Akhavan | Fantasy to Fabrication

An Suileachan, by Will Maclean and Marian Leven

Art reviews: Will Maclean | James Morrison | National Treasure

Barbara Hepworth with the Gift plaster of Figure for Landscape and a bronze cast of Figure (Archaean) November 1964. PIC: Lucien Myers

Art reviews: Barbara Hepworth | Steven Campbell

Daniel Silver with The Audience PIC: Sølve Sundsbø

Art reviews: Daniel Silver | Human Threads | Christelle Oyiri

Fringe performers at The Mound during the festival

How we are covering the return of Edinburgh's festivals

Women in Iran face a number of restrictions, with potential prison sentences for those who defy rules on artistic performance (Picture: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Refugee artists show the importance of freedom of expression – Soizig Carey

The Union Canal will be transformed by artists for this summer's festivals season. Picture: Julie Howden

Canal to be transformed by artists for75th anniversary of Edinburgh's festivals

The RMT union has said it would 'deliberately target' Edinburgh's festivals. Picture: John Devlin

Union would 'deliberately target' Edinburgh festivals over pay dispute

Irish singer and actress Jessie Buckley has been added to the bill of the Connect music festival, which will be staged at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh in August. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Connect: Stage and screen star Jessie Buckley to appear at Edinburgh festival

Phoebe Waller Bridge won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for the stage version of Fleabag in 2013 (Picture: Esme Allen)

Art forms will be brought together like never before for Edinburgh's festivals

John Byrne painted 'Man on the beach with cat' in 1972.

Artist John Byrne to be celebrated with exhibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow

Phoebe Waller Bridge won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for the stage version of Fleabag in 2013. Picture: Esme Allen

New Fringe showcase aims to emulate success of Fleabag and Still Game

Doctor Who and Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Picture: Robert McFadzean

New Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa set to become a force for good on and off-screen

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, who turns lifestyle guru as he brings his STRATAGEM show to Scotland this month. Pic: Trevor Leighton

Steve Coogan brings Alan Partridge to Scotland with a STRATAGEM for life

Frankie Boyle is appearing at the Assembly Rooms during this year's Fringe.

Frankie Boyle to play full Fringe run as 50 new Assembly shows are revealed

Jon Culshaw will be portraying Les Dawson at this year's Fringe. Picture: Steve Ullathorne

Impressionist Jon Culshaw on paying tribute to Les Dawson at the Fringe

Murrayfield will be hosting the opening night event at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Festival is an international celebration of humanity at its best

Alan Cumming, who is set to star as Robert Burns in his solo dance theatre debut during the Edinburgh International Festival. Picture: Edinburgh International Festival/PA Wire

EIF launch: Theatre programme's scale impresses

The new documentary, I Am Irvine Welsh, is planned to be released next year to coincide with the 30th anniversary of his debut novel Trainspotting.

Fly-on-the-wall documentary to follow Irvine Welsh for 18 months

Alan Cumming is in Scotland to launch his new movie My Old School at the Glasgow Film Festival.

Alan Cumming reveals fury over 75-year wait for Edinburgh International Festival...

Climate change and conservation will be in the spotlight at the Edinburgh Science Festival in April.

Climate change and conservation to the fore at Edinburgh Science Festival

Phoebe Waller-Bridge visited the Space venue at the Royal College of Surgeons with a friend during last year's reboot of the Fringe.

Fleabag ‘wouldn’t have seen the light of day’ without the Fringe

Barry Cryer was one of the greats of British comedy (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Barry Cryer showed us all the benefits of embracing silliness – Scotsman comment

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has staged screenings outdoors in recent years.

Edinburgh International Film Festival to return to August slot from this summer

Trinity Apse, off the Royal Mile, is playing host to this year's Message From The Skies project, which has been created in response to the climate crisis.

One of Edinburgh’s oldest buildings to host climate crisis culture project

The debating chamber created in the old Royal High School for a future Scottish Parliament will be used for Edinburgh's Hidden Door festival this summer.

Hidden Door festival to take over former Royal High School in Edinburgh

Seven modern-day medical students - Violet Borkowska, Hikari Sakurai, Megan Cameron, Simran Piya, Caitlin Taylor, Izzie Dighero and Mei Yen Liew - collected posthumous degrees on behalf of the Edinburgh Seven last year in 2019. Picture: Callum Bennets

Sam Heughan's first theatre company to honour 'Edinburgh Seven' campaign

Alan Cumming is the first guest in the new series of The Cultural Coven podcast.

Alan Cumming reveals he was target of death threats over Trump Presidency

Sir Billy Connolly has relived his upbringing in Glasgow in his new autobiography.

Sir Billy Connolly 's fury over ‘appalling treatment’ of Irish ancestors

The ongoing revamp of the Scottish National Gallery will now not be complete until the end of 2022 at the earliest.

National Galleries plead for help to finish project after 'major' cost hike

Esther Swift's project The Call opened this year's Edinburgh Door festival.

Hidden Door festival shows artists are key to reinventing redundant sites

The Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston was due to host next month's Comic Con Scotland event.

Comic Con Scotland: Film and TV convention called off due to curbs on events

Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal star in Here Today, the closing film of the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival

Edinburgh Film Festival review: Here Today

Actor, director and writer Simon Callow in Stockbridge

Simon Callow: Wrestling with the octopus of acting in Edinburgh

Suranne Jones leads the cast of new BBC drama Vigil (Picture: Nicky Hamilton)

Scottish film and TV is emerging into a new boom era – Brian Ferguson

Billy Connolly in front of Buckingham Palace during a visit to London in July 1974 (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Billy Connolly, the Halfway House and a gallus Festival tale – Steve Cardownie

Marli Siu, Tallulah Greive, Abigal Lawrie, Sally Messham and Rona Morison are the stars of Our Ladies.

Our Ladies: Director Michael Caton-Jones on how his new movie became an ‘orphan’

Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in Annette.

EIFF reviews: Annette | The Beta Test | Ninja Baby | Prince of Muck

In Relation to Linum by Christine Borland at Inverleith House. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh PIC: Keith Hunter Photography

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Lawrence MacEwen is the focus of the new documentary Prince of Muck.

Prince of Muck: Unlikely Scottish film star emerges from remote Hebridean island

The cast of Our Ladies with Tallulah Greive, second from right

Hollywood beckons for Leith actress but all people want to talk about is her mum

Professor Joe Goldblatt, who has worked on events for Ronald Reagan, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump, is the founding president of the International Live Events Association.

Global events expert warn Edinburgh’s festivals to prepare for ‘new abnormal’

The official release poster for Martyrs Lane

Outlander actor on the childhood stars stealing the show in EIFF premiere

Nicolas Cage in Pig, the EIFF's 2021 opening film.

Edinburgh Film Festival review: Pig

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