IT has been a dramatic and traumatic year for the arts in Scotland, with resignations from its key funding body, damning public letters, artistic rows, cultural controversies and crisis.
IT has been a dramatic and traumatic year for the arts in Scotland, with resignations from its key funding body, damning public letters, artistic rows, cultural controversies and crisis.
HIGHLIGHTS: (From top clockwise) Alan Cumming in the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Macbeth; Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop, who gave her cultural picks of the year; Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, in the Pixar movie Brave; Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the Big Noise Orchestra. Main picture: Martin Shields.
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Phil Miller Arts Correspondent
However, the nation's Culture Secretary, Fiona Hyslop, has opted to focus on the positive as 2012 comes to an end.
The past month has seen the controversial crisis-hit arts funding body Creative Scotland promise to reform, the resignation of its chief executive Andrew Dixon, as well as senior manager Venu Dhupa.
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