Permanently Temporary
Lotte Lewis visits A Postcard from Amsterdam, an exhibition by Charlott Weise and Franziska Schulz at LOWER.GREEN, a temporary gallery space in Norwich
Electric Speech
Emma Balkind reviews Telephone by Ariana Reines, published by Wonder
Gardenlust #1: The Hellmouth
On the art of garden renovation: a new monthly column by Isabella Streffen
The Big Sneeze
Philomena Epps reviews Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths CCA, London, 6 September - 4 November 2018
Do you really just want to be part of a band?
Notes from the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 20-23 September 2018, by Marcus Jack
Mostly No
Sarah Bernstein reflects on solitary women in the fiction of Muriel Spark
The Symptom and The Cure
Matthew Turner reviews The Anti Ecstatic Machines by Benedict Drew at Matt’s Gallery, London, 22–30 September
Survival Kit
An essay by Olivia Scott-Berry in response to The Land+The People, reflecting on deep time, eerie geology and methods of bearing witness
Beneath the Platform
William Kherbek reflects on the 10th Berlin Biennale, We Don’t Need Another Hero, 9 June - 9 September
‘To repeat this circle’
Rediscovering Margaret Tait at 100: Sarah Neely reports on three important exhibitions.
CRYSTALLINE CHRYSALIS CRISIS
David Upton reports on a dissident takeover of Summerhall’s basement by artist and musician Fritz Welch
‘tomorrow maybe they will kill us’
Edinburgh Art Festival: Katy Hastie writes in response to Shilpa Gupta’s For, in your tongue I cannot hide at The Fire Station, Edinburgh College of Art, 26 July - 26 August
back in at the deep end
Emma Balkind reflects on SINK by Janice Kerbel, commissioned by The Common Guild and performed at The Western Baths Club, Glasgow
Jordan Wolfson: In Search of the Whale
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jordan Wolfson take a taxi to the Museum of Natural History, New York, to visit the whale. Time, travel, and time-travel come into their sights
Studio: Ogilvie and Callender
Ruth Hedges and Luke Watson visit the giant studio of Elizabeth Ogilvie and Bob Callender, artists who live by the sea
The Story of Art
Ernst Gombrich, Phaidon Pocket Edition, reprint 2006, £12.95
Stan Douglas
15 September 2007–6 January 2008, Staatsgalerie & Wurttembergischer Kunstverine, Stuttgart
Selected works from a private collection: Thomas Kinkade
3 July–11 July, 2009, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich
Beyond Belief
Artist Nathan Coley travelled to Jerusalem to explore and record the city and its life on film, focusing on the phenomenon of Jerusalem Syndrome, a rare travel psychosis specific to the holy city. Afflicting between 5 and 10 people a year, the syndrome is characterised by intoxication of the Holy Land. Those affected can be found at holy sites, chanting, singing and delivering sermons as if living in the time of Christ.
Selective Memory: Scotland and Venice, and Echo Echo
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 8 December 2005–6 March 2006 and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 8 December 2005–29 January 2006
Diary: Theatre of Dreams
Patrick Semple reports from the terraces at this year’s Art Cup in remote Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Marc Bijl, Gerard Byrne, Valerie Jouve
21 April–23 June 2007, Aliceday, Brussels
Emerging: Iman Issa
Aoife Rosenmeyer discovers renovation and rejuvenation in the work of this Egyptian artist
Loris Gréaud: On and Off
Christophe Gallois interviews Loris Gréaud, an artist who manipulates and expands the art of exhibition-making. Following the showing of Cellar Door at the Palais de Tokyo, the ICA hosts the second version of the exhibition which brings together opera, architecture and black champagne
How to Live Together
7 October–17 December 2006, 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Prison Landscapes
An excerpt from Hatty Nestor’s forthcoming book on portraits of the incarcerated
Nudes Never Wear Glasses
First in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Victoria Horne reviews Kate Davis’ solo exhibition at Stills 28 July - 8 October
Diary: Beagles and Ramsay from New York
Beagles and Ramsay (Glasgow-based duo, John Beagles and Graham Ramsay) were commissioned to make new work for PS1, MOMA, New York in October, 2004. They decided to make a new self-portrait for the show, a batch of black puddings with their own blood as the key ingredient
The Great Transformation—Art and Tactical Magic
7 June–7 September 2008, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
The Archive Is Not The Story
‘There is no individual authority on the history of Transmission, but a huge number of personal accounts from various perspectives’.[1] John Calcutt visits the gallery archives ahead of the move into Glasgow’s new Trongate 103 building
‘My mother,’ wrote Sontag, ‘improved her manners by losing her appetite’
‘Sick Sick Sick’ : The Books of Ornery Women | A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers | Session Four, CCA, 24 April, 6.30pm
Sculpture Haven
Irene Kernan, director of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop announces a big step forward for the organisation
Phillip Lai
10 November 2007–15 January 2008, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
ANNIE LENNOX
The Eurythmics singer, who was recently honoured by both Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, reveals her artistic passions