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Music is the escape, the anger, the boredom, the sadness, the sex, the affirmation, the madness and sense that takes us out of the daily grind. Neil Cooper celebrates the whole beautiful, blurred shebang as it morphs into art in the exhibition 'Pass the Time of Day'
Neil Mulholland scans the guest list of the venerable Venice Biennale, and ponders the question of national identity with Scotland and China in mind online soon
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14 – 28 March 2005, Ivy Buchanan’s, Banff online soon
Minimalist artist Helio Oiticica died in 1980 and has been celebrated by major galleries across the world since. Richard Williams searches out his work in the Brazilian jungle, but discovers it struggling to survive online soon
Edinburgh-based sculptor Duncan Robertson remembers Eduardo Paolozzi, a giant of Scottish art, who died in April, 2005
Scul?tor George Wylie takes the MAP diary on a Cosmic Voyage.
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Continuing his series of artistic wanderings especially for MAP, Duncan McLaren takes off to France to climb a mountain of the imagination-despite the language barrier
Deborah Jackson gets close to the drawings of Nigel Peake, a prolific sketcher and young emerging artist who recently showed work at Red Door Gallery in Edinburgh.
In search of the working habits of Scottish artists, writer Ruth Hedges and photographer Luke Watson head north to meet sculptor Lotte Glob
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Artist Mark Dion describes his brush with the little known bears of Dundee and his scheme to build new vistas for them and for those on the human side of their enclosure. Bear Broch opened to the public in the winter of 2005
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Francis McKee digs into the politics of seeds, GM and ownership, uncovering the evolving open source software of Simon Yuill and Chad McCail which seeks to challenge the state we're in
Poets Edwin Morgan and Alan Spence celebrate the 80th birthday of Ian Hamilton Finlay, artist, poet and Gardener. Introduction by Ken Cockburn
21 April – 2 May 2005, various venues, Glasgow
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22 February – 10 April 2005, Serpentine Gallery, London