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Photos focus on Aids impact

January 18th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
A PHOTO exhibition that examines the impact of the HIV/Aids pandemic is to tour the Capital.

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Art Review | ‘Sleepwalkers’: The Museum as Outdoor Movie Screen

January 18th, 2007 by ROBERTA SMITH
Doug Aitken’s video piece is available for viewing at, or more accurately on, the Museum of Modern Art.

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Movie Review | ‘Dam Street’: Rejected by Society, a Woman Struggles to Carry On

January 17th, 2007 by MANOHLA DARGIS
Like any number of Chinese films that make the festival rounds, “Dam Street” offers a portrait of alienation in a post-Mao world as believable as it is grim, grim, grim.

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Triumph of youth over experience as artists head for Venice

January 17th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
WHILE megastar Tracy Emin will represent Britain at the Venice Biennale arts show this summer, Scotland's hopes are pinned on non-household names.

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Movie Review | ‘The GoodTimesKid’ and ‘Two Wrenching Departures’: A Father and a Son Tell Their Own Tales of Love and Loss

January 17th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
Azazel Jacobs’s unexpectedly beguiling romantic comedy, “The GoodTimesKid,” finds poetry in wordless scenes of observation.

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Movie Review | ‘Alone With Her’: The Long Lens of Obsession and Mad Love

January 17th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
Writer and director Eric Nicholas’s latest film, “Alone With Her,” is a voyeuristic thriller that is fiendishly assured yet ultimately less than the sum of its parts.

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Screen scene for art work at university

January 16th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
THE quadrangle at the heart of Edinburgh University's Old College is to be transformed from a gravel car park into a giant work of art.

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Plea for sculptures to stay as a rock solid Holyrood fixture

January 15th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
AN exhibition of giant granite sculptures in Holyrood Park has been extended for a further six months after proving a hit with the public.

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McBey prints up for auction

January 15th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
A COLLECTION of rare prints by Scottish artist James McBey is set to be put up for auction in Edinburgh this week.

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Crafty times for museum

January 15th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
A MAJOR show of contemporary crafts was set to open today at one of the Capital's top museums.

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