Culture

The overarching theme of this year's Book Festival is Let's Talk - and the latest events announced today are going to be talked about as well as listened to. The Edinburgh International Book Festival’s vibrant...

A selection of works from the Studio of the much-loved Scottish painter and teacher Alberto Morrocco are included in the Pictures Sale tomorrow at Bonhams.The paintings cover many aspects of Morrocco’s career and include:...

Newton (Rajkummar Raol) is a precise, pernickety young clerk in this Hindi-language film from second-time director Amit V Masurkar.  His principles will not allow the eponymous hero to be married to an underage friend...

Here is our ABC to this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival which opens todayFrank Benson Edinburgh Art Festival National Gallery of Scotland 31 July – 31 August 2014American Impressionism: A New VisionFrank Weston Benson Eleanor 1901 Oil on canvas Museum of Art,...

He has a reputation as “The Fixer”.  And this week Derek Mackay delivered a “historic” budget, the first to give Scotland a distinct income tax system, the long-promised “tartan tax.”  And this while the...

Police Scotland and partners will be holding their annual open day at former Lothian and Borders Headquarters in Fettes Avenue between 11am and 3pm today.There will be activities for all ages of the family...

Sex trafficking is to be discussed by the Church of Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Members of the Church and Society Council are teaming up with the author and cast members of a play...

I usually spend a Sunday afternoon in the company of my elder daughter Laura and my three grandchildren. I love them dearly (dearly being the operative word, particularly when the ice cream van stops...

Social media has been taken over by ‘bots’ spreading hate, fear and influencing how we vote. In ‘LOVEBOTS’, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and New Act of the Year winner Bilal Zafar sets out to put this right.In...

In case you didn't know Erasure is coming to play at the Usher Hall on 3 February and now their support has been announced. Bright Light Bright Light is the sole support act  and the Welsh...

by Fiona Hyslop MSP As well as being one of the elected members for the Lothians region, I am also the Minister responsible for Culture in the Scottish Government. Despite a 6.7% budget cut in...

Pianodrome In Summer 2018 Tim Vincent Smith who is an artist and his team will build an amphitheatre in the Botanics entirely made from discarded pianos.#Pianodrome is a part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival...

David Greig and Gordon McIntyre’s exquisite miniature Midsummer is expanded and enlarged with a live band bringing to life its heart warming songs and irresistible humour, in residence at The Hub throughout the International...

Virgin Money is announced today as title sponsor of the pyrotechnic finale of the Edinburgh International Festival, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, freshly named the 'Virgin Money Fireworks Concert'.Over 100,000 fireworks, tonnes of...

REDISCOVERED SHINTY PAINTING EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIFTY YEARS AT THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY The painting A Highland Landscape with a Game of Shinty is the most famous depiction of the world-celebrated...

The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh's independent arts and community centre, has been told it must leave its current premises at 3 Bristo Place by 31 August, in a letter received this week from the Trustees...

When you step foot into Golf Tavern, you are stepping into a little piece of Scottish history. There has been a tavern on this site since 1456, nestled on the edge of the Bruntsfield Links. Proud to say...

FROM FINE DINING SIGNATURE DISHES, TO A TASTE OF AUTHENTIC STREET FOOD, NEW INDIAN RESTAURANT DUO HAS IT COVERED IN THE CAPITAL!Fine Dining Venue, Mumbai Diners Club, at Atholl Place, is joined in...

This summer from 26 May to 13 July 2018 a display of work from both emerging and established artists will be hosted at Summerhall.The Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Graduate Showcase celebrates the best work...

Made in Scotland goes from strength to strength for the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a seventeen strong programme of Scotland’s finest new work.Today, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, announced...

The Coronas' UK tour is a mere footnote compared to the massive shows they have previous played in their native Ireland. The band have headlined 3 Arena and the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, playing to...

Known for her dry and raw sense of humour, Katharine appears to be a sweet Canadian comic, but stories about her misadventures are both dark and brutally funny. From her eccentric family, romantic failures,...

Science and technology community roadshow at Leith Academy A day of free family friendly activities will take place in Leith on Saturday 22 September 2018 as part of a programme focused on igniting interest in Science,...

Driven by the mystique that surrounds her school's sorority, a blogging schoolkid follows the group into the woods one night and witnesses something that acts as a catalyst to their destruction. Seemingly overnight, their...

  It is only a couple of years since we have had the Festival Wheel in Princes Street but now we are about to have the biggest yet!Situated in the heart of Edinburgh’s Princes Street...

Around 1,000 brave souls literally took the plunge on New Year's Day at the annual Stoats Loony Dook event at Queensferry as part of the three day long Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.Edinburgh's Lord Provost the Rt Hon...

The price for unlimited, year-round access to Edinburgh’s new cycle hire scheme has been cut in half for one week only.Normally costing £90, an annual pass gives users unlimited access to the scheme for...

Edinburgh based virtuoso pianist, wit and raconteur Will Pickvance has adapted his award winning, smash hit show Anatomy of the Piano for children – but it still includes plenty in for adults to enjoy.The...

The National Museum of Scotland joins forces once again with Live Music Now Scotland to showcase some of Scotland’s most talented young musicians – for free - as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh has an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Victoria Orr Ewing (b.1962). Her pictures are often of remote crofts and unsullied vistas of Galloway, the Highlands and the west coast of...