Art and movie

Watching wasted people stumble from one fix to the next is rarely riveting cinema, and “Cocaine Angel” does little to disprove that rule.

A COMMUNITY music group hopes to buy out Pathhead Primary School when it closes this summer and transform it into an arts centre.

A NEW Year's resolution by Midlothian artist Carol Adam, 44, has resulted in nomination for a prestigious European award.

ARTS and business leaders are backing a campaign to prevent Scotland's main cultural development agency being located outside Edinburgh.

LEADERS from the business and arts worlds joined forces with politicians today to launch a campaign to keep Scotland's main arts body in the Capital.

DRAWINGS by filmmaker and sculptor Simon Green have gone on display in an Edinburgh gallery.

EDIE Sedgwick's impact on Andy Warhol's work is explored in new film Factory Girl. But beautiful women have long inspired the great artists, writes ALICE WYLLIE

SCOTLAND'S premier performing arts college, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is planning to become an "international centre of excellence" on a par with rivals in London and New York, its new chairman said.

A FORMER GP last night sparked a literary row after claiming to have unearthed proof that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was schizophrenic.

A LEADING Scottish artist is set to have his debut novel transformed for the cinema by top Hollywood director Baz Luhrmann.