Two artists, selected from more than 100 applicants, have been confirmed as recipients of the inaugural St Kilda – Fragility Of Flight artists residencies.
If one name is synonymous with fashion imagery it's Vogue, the magazine bought by publisher Conde Montrose Nast in 1909 and still owned by the company bearing his name.
A FIGURE sits on a bench, so calmly still that you're almost tricked into believing that Helka Kaski is a sculptural part of the Every Day exhibition in GoMA's ground-floor gallery.
The 175th birthday this year of the Scots-born environmentalist and pioneering ecologist John Muir may have been one of the reasons for the designation of 2013 as The Year of Natural Scotland, but it is unlikely that the fact has impinged on the consciousness of all but those whose lives already include a familiarity with the Dunbar man's work.
l The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, fresh from its triumph at the Perth Festival with the music of Stan Kenton, is out on the road again this weekend with special guest David Liebman on saxophone.
Fittingly coincident with the celebrations of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 60 years ago, the National Portrait Gallery in London has announced that three important pictures of her predecessors are to benefit from restoration work funded by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Project.
The new annual Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship has been created to enable a writer based in Scotland to develop their craft and to produce a work of quality.
The 30th anniversay of the ZTT label, founded in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn and journalist Paul Morley, is being marked by the issue of an album compiled of some of the rarer mixes of tunes that were big hits in their day.
The creative clatter engendered by hundreds of art students is palpable the minute you walk into a degree show – even if the artists in question are not in the building.
The news story in last Saturday's Herald was headlined "Stirling ready to do battle for Bannockburn celebrations" and this may prove to be the case, but perhaps not as Provost Mike Robbins and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon envisaged when they talked to our reporter.
Magic and the occult, myths and the imagined: many of the shows at this year's Venice Biennale of Art, the 55th, focus on hidden worlds, real or imaginary, or the netherworlds inbetween.