Visual

  • Masters of the Mount
    20 May 2012

    Mount Stuart House on Bute, seat of the marquesses of Bute, is a popular tourist destination and rightly so.

  • drawing from both barrels
    19 May 2012

    The 10-day-long Perth Festival, now in its 41st year, kicked off in style two days ago with the English Touring Opera's Barber Of Seville.

  • A brush with the tangled love life of Burns
    18 May 2012

    I do not know whether it amused the late George Wyllie (although most things did), but it is passing strange that artists are now admired for working across different disciplines where such behaviour might have been dismissed as identifying a dilettante but a short while ago.

  • those class acts
    12 May 2012

    A lone piper in full Highland regalia on Martin Creed's Scotsman Steps in Edinburgh underwhelms passers-by with his mournful dirge, before becoming Elvis.

  • Peter Arkle on a curious collaboration
    12 May 2012

    Peter Arkle is an alien of extraordinary ability.

  • National Gallery could still be branching out
    12 May 2012

    I have no wish to take any sort of credit for the idea, but regular readers of this weekly bulletin from the frontline of arts advocacy will have been as delighted as I was to read in Tuesday's Herald that the new president of RGI (the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts) has her eye on the McLellan Galleries for a showpiece exhibition in 2014 when the athletes are in town.

  • Sparks of pure genius
    29 April 2012

    NO-one forgets their first Beltane Fire Festival.

  • A new body of work
    27 April 2012

    Tomorrow, the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition opens its doors for the 186th time.

  • Bewildered and beguiled
    22 April 2012

    So yes, you may have heard, or seen, that there is an inflatable Stonehenge in the middle of Glasgow now.

  • Painting a bigger picture: David Band remembered
    21 April 2012

    Scottish artist David Band's bright and painterly work adorned some of the bestselling records of the 1980s, while his design studio gained him access to the hippest fashion circles.

  • an Exploration of the final frontier
    21 April 2012

    Glasgow Sculpture Studios might be in the process of rebirth, as they move into new premises in a former whisky bond by the canal at Speirs Lock, but their first exhibition is from an artist preoccupied with death.

  • Stories for the record
    20 April 2012

    Did you hear the one about the art collective, the professor and the polymath?