Art experience: Stand-up comedian and television personality Phill Jupitus returns to the National Galleries of Scotland this summer to sketch some of his favourite artworks on an iPad and encourage others to join in. Sketch Comic is part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and follows the success of two hugely popular runs in 2014 and 2015. Best known as a team captain on the BBC Two pop quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Jupitus is a multi-talented artist whose repertoire includes poetry, acting, … [Read more...] about Jupitus draws an audience to sketch on an iPad
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Revealing life and times of the forgotten realists
Art exhibition: A forgotten generation of talented British artists is the subject of this summer’s Festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. True to Life is the first exhibition to explore the realist tradition in British painting of the 1920s and 1930s, bringing to light the work of dozens of once-celebrated artists whose paintings are now largely hidden away in private collections or in the storerooms of Britain’s museums and … [Read more...] about Revealing life and times of the forgotten realists
Audience uplift supports EIFF move from August
Film festival: Edinburgh International Film Festival enjoyed a sixth successive year of increased attendances, endorsing the decision to run it earlier than the August festivals. More than 53,000 attended over the 12 days. This was the highest figure recorded since the controversial move away from the city’s other main festivals in 2008, when 52,175 people attended events. A further 20,000 enjoyed the weekend of outdoor screenings, as part of Film Fest in the City. Figures for the main … [Read more...] about Audience uplift supports EIFF move from August
Men looking good in exhibition of self-image
Art and photo exhibition: The evolution of men’s fashion, masculine identity and the male self-image over the last 500 years is the subject of an exhibition which has opened at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Looking Good: The Male Gaze from Van Dyck to Lucian Freud explores how men have indulged their enthusiasm for fashionable clothes, careful grooming and elaborate hair styling to project their image to the world. The exhibition includes paintings of attired courtiers of the 16th … [Read more...] about Men looking good in exhibition of self-image
Still under the spell of a boy wizard
As one of the Potter generation HAYLEY MURDEN has grown up with the books and the films. Now almost 30 she explains how the boy wizard has followed her into adulthood When Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone was first published on 26 June 1997, just before my tenth birthday, I was less than impressed. At the time I had an aversion to reading books with male protagonists, probably due to the ‘ew, boys!’ type of thinking most little girls go through. I was an avid reader and already immersed … [Read more...] about Still under the spell of a boy wizard