Culture Scotland

The first of a new series highlighting innovation and new talent in Scotland today, by Rebecca Nada-Rajah On a foggy evening on London Road I sit for a coffee with Edinburgh- based portrait painter...

 A few days ago, I walked out of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art so angry I could hardly speak – vibrating, nostrils flaring, teeth locked, brows knitted – angry enough to step out in front of, and face down, a speeding car on the pedestrian crossing outside. I left with a desire to never ever return to the gallery. I left hating art.

MORE than 30,000 oil paintings from across Scotland are available to inspect online for the first time in a ground-breaking new project to open up access to the nation’s artistic masterpieces.

An exhibition to mark the 100th birthday of painter Derek Clarke presents an astonishing body of work from a remarkable artist, writes Jan Patience

Remember how exciting the artwork on LPs used to be? How they could fold out double or even triple? How they could contain posters or freebies?   Let your imagination run wild for Woodend Barn...

http://vimeo.com/65535198#at=26 Raw Data by Jake Fried 2013. Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

The Gallery is to host an exhibition of Joan Eardley in April 2013.

2013 marks 50 years since the death of Joan Eardley, one of Scotland's most beloved painters. To mark this milestone The Scottish Gallery is to host a major exhibition on the artist which will then travel to the Portland Gallery, London. Our exhibition will also coincide with the publication of a new monograph on the artist by writer Christopher Andreae.

In keeping with a century-old tradition, New Year’s Day at the Scottish National Gallery will be marked by the opening of the annual exhibition of watercolours by J M W Turner (1775–1851). In his 1900 bequest to the gallery, Henry Vaughan, a London art collector who amassed an outstanding group of watercolours by the British painter, stipulated that the Turner watercolours must not be subjected to permanent display, since continual exposure to light would result in their fading.