Art and movie

While “Shockproof” will inspire more groans than gasps, it’s essential viewing for fans of filmmakers Samuel Fuller and Douglas Sirk.

A PAINTING by the Prince of Wales is to go on show alongside those of Picasso and Salvador Dali as part of an exhibition of works of art used on wine bottle labels.

The new documentary “2 or 3 Things I Know About Him” offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.

THE Edinburgh Fringe director who has seen the festival almost double in size over the past eight years is to step down from his post.

SIX rare etchings by Lucian Freud are expected to fetch a total of up to ?100,000 when they go on sale in Edinburgh this week.

PETER Howson, the controversial painter who has been appointed the SNP's new cultural adviser, last night called for tax breaks to encourage more artists to stay in Scotland.

SANTIAGO, Jan 16 (IPS) - Among the profusion of plays on offer in the Chilean capital in the new year is a festival of moving dramas in which the actors are convicts and slum-dwellers, who are trying to escape marginalisation by going on the stage.

MEXICO CITY, Jan 15 (IPS) - At 6:10 p.m. on Oct. 2, 1968, red and green flares signalled troops and police in civilian clothes that it was time to fire on the students gathered in Tlatelolco square in the Mexican capital. This massacre changed the country's history.

AULD acquaintances have not been forgotten. After years of campaigning, a multi-million-pound lifeline is about to be thrown to preserve the legacy of national bard, Robert Burns.

ONE of the most-sought after private collections of Scottish Colourists is to go under the hammer in London.