Arts

Dana Leslie has been commended for artwork she produced while studying in Dundee

University of Dundee graduate's artwork named among world's best
COURSEWORK by a University of Dundee graduate has been named among the world’s best at a major awards ceremony.

Director of the Findhorn Bay Festival, Kresanna Aigner, says the value of the event goes beyond the economic benefit for the area

EXCLUSIVE Festival shows how arts can help the community thrive despite cash cuts

There's plenty to do in Scotland this week

What can you do in Scotland this week? Seven things for seven days

Singaporean-British artist Hannah Lim studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and uses influences from her background in her work

Exhibit to explore connotations of colonialism between East and West

Edinburgh Printmakers is running the programme in conjunction with arts organisation Flow India, as part of the India/UK Together season. Photograph: Jules Lister

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Bonds between Scotland and India grow as new project brings together young creatives

Auchendarroch by Argyll-based artist Arthur Ker is among the works that will go on display

Royal National Mod to showcase art for the first time in its history

Project lead artist Rhys Hollis

New exhibition to share Scotland's untold Black history

Ursula Cheng (left) and Grace & The Flat Boys will be main features of Scotland in Colour

scotland in colour Scottish festival set to champion the nation's multi-cultural community

Alan Grant (right) with John Wagner, one of his The Bogie Man co-authors

essay A tribute to the comic book genius who mixed Scottish and American culture

The portrait of Marie Maitland was created by Mike Foster, Maltings Partnership. Photograph: ©Ashley Douglas

EXCLUSIVE Painting of Scotland's pioneering ‘Sappho’ goes on display at National Portrait Gallery

Akram Khan by Jean-Louis Fernandez

INTERVIEW Akram Khan puts nature front and centre in new production of The Jungle Book

Sunghrie 1999 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Picture: WBG Trust - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.

Special exhibition to celebrate innovative Scottish printmaker

The programme will showcase performers, experts, and artists from the Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish and the Scottish communities

Scotland set for first festival celebrating Roma culture in Glasgow

Boom is a circus show from Ukrainian and Czech
performers. Photograph: Lesley Martin

REVIEW Fringe review: Circus act from Czech and Ukrainian performers is full of energy

The price of short-term accommodation in the city is a threat to the the festival's future

COMMENT Sky-high accommodation and venue costs threaten Edinburgh Fringe’s future

Over 20 Scottish and international artists have contributed to the exhibition

special report Art exhibition on nuclear activism to unite Scottish and Ukrainian creators

The exhibit will showcase 32 paintings of giants of Scottish literature

Scottish art Giants of Scottish literature get the Greg Moodie treatment in stylish exhibition

Many shows finish too late for those who are dependent on public transport to get home

Letters Edinburgh festivals are inaccessible to many working Scots

Author Raymond Briggs in Hyde Park

The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs dies at the age of 88

Scottish artist is heading to Svalbard with a team of scientists to look into the impact of climate change

Interview Meet the Scottish artist heading to Norway to explore the impact of climate change

Artist Kostya Benkovich, who fled Russia because of his anti-war stance, presents his sculpture The Suitcase

Artist who fled Russia reveals suitcase sculpture highlighting plight of refugees

Henley Spiers took this shot of a gannet seconds after it dived off the Shetland Islands

Scottish seabird snap earns £100k grand prize in global photography contest

Ruth Nicol’s painting A Place to Work, Read and Listen, MacDiarmid’s Room, Brownsbank

ESSAY Celebrating Hugh McDiarmid, one hundred years after the poet first appeared in print

Image credit: Andrew Perry

Over 15,000 people gather for opening of 75th Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh Fringe is taking place this month

Edinburgh festivals given £2.1m by Scottish Government to mark 75-year anniversaries

Thousands are expected to travel to Scone Palace after a music festival was given the go-ahead

Perth music festival could bring £1m to city after given green light

New 'Daffodil King' inspired mural by renowned artist pops up in Govan. Photos: Gordon Terris

New 'Daffodil King' inspired mural by renowned artist pops up in Govan

Artist Lex McFadyen, pictured with his husband Brendan Docherty outside their gallery in Noyers-sur Serein en Bourgogne

EXCLUSIVE How a Scottish artist came to be living in and running a gallery in a French village

Ticket sales for this year's Fringe are down by about 30%

Edinburgh Fringe's future on a 'knife edge' amidst slow ticket sales

The unknown Van Gogh portrait was discovered on the opposite side of Head of a Peasant Woman. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland

Unseen Van Gogh portrait discovered in Scotland 'could be worth £100m'

The portrait was discovered by an x-ray of Van Gogh's Head of a Peasant Woman

Newly discovered Van Gogh self-portrait unearthed in Scotland

(Background) Senior Curator Frances Fowle with Head of a Peasant Woman (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh. (Neil Hannah/ PA) (Square) X-ray image of Vincent Van Gogh (National Galleries of Scotland/ PA)

Unknown Vincent Van Gogh painting hidden for over a century found in Edinburgh

Alasdair Gray’s Cowcaddens Streetscape in the Fifties, from 1964

IN CONVERSATION Sorcha Dallas tells how Alasdair Gray's art permeated Glasgow's West End

The project notes the communal and sculptural nature of benches

Design exhibition brings art of sitting pretty to the Isle of Bute

Picture: The University of Dundee

Minnie the Minx, Rupert the Bear and Batman join in new exhibition

New Paisley Town Hall rooms to honour artist John Byrne in £22m makeover

John Byrne to be honoured in £22m Paisley Town Hall rooms makeover

Sorcha Dallas in the Alasdair Gray Archive. Photo by Alan Dimmick

IN CONVERSATION ‘Stories make us human’: What we can learn from the Alasdair Gray Archive

Artwork by Deidre Nelson, part of the Woven in Govan exhibition

Nicola Sturgeon praises art exhibition on forgotten work of woman

The exhibition will explore the cultural and political resistance of Roma people to the oppressive conditions they have faced

Roma history and resistance celebrated at Scottish exhibition

Rodge Glass, right, is keeping the work of painter and writer Alasdair Gray, left, alive

INTERVIEW Gray Studies: Meet the man keeping the spirit of Alasdair Gray alive

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is showing Noel Coward’s Private Lives

Here's seven great things happening in Scotland the next seven days

John Byrne at work in his studio, and Hands Up (2006)

EXCLUSIVE Byrne again: Scotland celebrates work of one of its greatest living polymaths

Ann Craig of Angus Writers Circle reads from a collection of poems in The New Scriptorium at Arbroath Abbey

‘Stunning’ scriptorium opens at Arbroath Abbey to inspire Scots

Glasgow Mela never fails to bring a smile

Five free family festivals happening in Scotland

Biggest art sale in Scotland coming to Glasgow next week

The band will be made up of pipers of all ages and abilities

Piping Live event to return to Glasgow after two-year hiatus

Jack Vettriano, whose exhibition is set to open in Kirkcaldy Galleries where he was inspired as young artist

‘This means world to me’: Scots artist exhibits in the gallery that inspired him

Crawick Multiverse will celebrate the summer solstice with a family festival

Summer solstice to be celebrated with family-friendly festival

Alexander Moffat: 'Alasdair Gray (Study)'.

ESSAY Eyes of the world on Alasdair Gray again as international conference opens

James Morrison painting on the West Coast, 2009.

REVIEW Retrospective of Scottish landscape painter reveals a true great

Artist Rose Strang (left) and her 2021 oil on pine painting But Did I Dream That Roe, a commission for poet Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

Landscape artist unearths Scottish Gaelic gem unheard for decades

The Alasdair Gray mural at Palacerigg could be listed

Public asked about listing an Alasdair Gray mural for future generations

The new festival is set to celebrate the north east and will take place in July

New festival to celebrate Scotland's north-east

An image featured in the exhibition by Francesco Luongo.

Glasgow photography exhibition launching second phase after massive success