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The invisible magic of design

13 September 2024

As Scotland’s national design festival gets underway in Dundee, Susan Mansfield explores how we became a design-conscious nation.

Fire in My Mouth, Edinburgh International Festival

The Best of the Fests

30 July 2024

With the world’s largest arts festival happening in Edinburgh in August, the only question is where to start. Veteran festival critic Susan Mansfield selects highlights for Artmag readers from across the Festivals.

Gail Pope, 'In the Pink', acrylic on canvas

Festival Time Again at Torrance Gallery Edinburgh

26 July 2024

The Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh is hosting its annual Festival Exhibition, this year featuring James Potter, with Deborah Phillips, alongside her curated selection of works by her late father, Douglas Phillips.

Pauline Burbidge, 'In Honour of Hugo' detail

Pittenweem Arts Festival Returns for 2024

9 July 2024

One of the largest regional events of its kind in the UK, the Pittenweem Arts Festival returns with about 140 artists and makers from across Britain, showing in venues across the attractive Fife village.

Abel Selaocoe, Edinburgh International Festival. Image © Ben Bonouvrier

The Fierce Cello: Abel Selaocoe at The Hub

23 August 2023

Review: Cellist Abel Selaocoe performs a dazzling solo showcase of the seemingly-limitless depth of his talent, and the sonic possibilities of his instrument, at Edinburgh International Festival venue The Hub.

Artist Sarah Knox is exhibiting at Pools of Light at Venue 6 - The Gatehouse, Priory Court, off Cove Wynd

Pittenweem Arts Festival Returns to Harbour

10 July 2023

One of the largest regional events of its kind in the UK, the Pittenweem Arts Festival returns with over a hundred artists and makers from across Britain showing in venues across the attractive Fife village.

This Is Loop, 'PULSE'. Image Alan Hayes

SPECTRA Festival of Light Returns to Aberdeen

12 January 2023

Scotland’s festival of light, SPECTRA, is returning to Aberdeen in February, promising a spectacular display of illuminated installations across the city, including to the renewed Union Terrace Gardens.

Under the banner of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, works from the National Galleries of Scotland collection are featured in A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse, including a recently discovered self-portrait by Van Gogh. Photo: Neil Hanna

Is Art on the Fringe?

7 October 2022

Susan Mansfield looks at the shifting place of visual art in the galaxy of Edinburgh festivals and asks if it is valued as much as the performing arts.

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (Sat 16:50, Filmhouse Cinema 3)

Capital Film Festival Makes it 75 for 2022

19 August 2022

The 75th Edinburgh International Film Festival includes 87 new features, 12 short film programmes and two large-scale retrospectives celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Film Festival.

Medea with members of The chorus and Jason. Image Jess Shurte.

Myth and Menace: a Modern Medea

16 August 2022

Review: Liz Lochhead’s bold, brave and blackly humorous adaptation of the timeless Greek tragedy as a 21st century feminist morality play.

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