A painting by Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, entitled Reflections and described as a work of refined elegance, is expected to fetch up to £500,000 when it goes on sale at Sotheby's in London next Thursday.
Scottish, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funding for digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland's Make:IT:Happen fund.
The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway is the only property in the care of the National Trust for Scotland that has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions curated by Sheilagh Tennant.
When I meet Carol Bove, she is crouched over a small sea of peacock feathers which are being reassembled on the wooden floorboards of a large airy room at The Common Guild, the townhouse-turned-gallery owned by Douglas Gordon.
It is, in theory, a great idea: the opportunity to see some of the most iconic paintings the world has ever known, without the hassle of hustling for a ticket or travelling hundreds of miles to far-off cities.
Last Sunday, before my pre-opening visit to the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh, I spent an hour in the adjacent Scottish National Gallery road-testing a new app just launched by the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) called ArtHunter.
At lunch time today, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands takes to the orange carpet to perform the official opening ceremony of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
There is a slow-burning quality to Peter Thomson's paintings which finds them burrowing their way into your psyche and lingering there in a quiet corner.
13 April 2013
