Building beacons in the digital foundry The room is heaving with twenty or thirty mainly sweat-shirted individuals, heads bent over laptops and some speaking in a peculiar coding language against the metronomic ping-pong of a nearby game of table tennis. Welcome to the busy working lounge and playroom at Codebase in Edinburgh where the latest […]
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Churchill role arguably Oldman’s finest hour
Film review: Darkest Hour (5/5) Gary Oldman described taking on one of the most iconic of characters as the role of a lifetime, though he admitted that he initially turned down the part of Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, for fear he couldn’t pull it off. He had nothing left to prove with his […]
All change as new CEOs take their places
Many of those returning to work will start the new year with the prospect of a new boss taking over or getting their feet firmly under the table. A number of top Scottish companies and organisations are undergoing a change at the top and among the senior positions yet to be filled are the CEOs […]
Poetry illustrations added to annual Turner show
Art exhibition: Turner in January The annual Turner in January exhibition will open at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh featuring an outstanding collection of watercolours bequeathed in 1900 by Henry Vaughan. For over a century the Gallery has followed the stipulations set out by the art collector that 38 works encapsulating the entire career […]
Displaying emotion and creativity in 53 varieties
Art exhibition: BP National Portrait Award Few subjects offer as much variety as the human face which is why portraiture is so compelling to artists. The 2017 BP Portrait Award exhibition, which has opened at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, features 53 stand-out works selected from 2,580 entries, by artists from 87 countries. There are portraits of […]