Issues / #6 Summer 2006
Journey Six: Glasgow and Port Glasgow
Having clocked up five journeys for MAP, taking him from London to Lumsden, Duncan McLaren boards the train once again to test the values of contemporary art in a pub, a gallery in a flat, a town hall and an annual report
Studio: Toby Paterson
Photographer Luke Watson visits painter Toby Paterson, well known for his postmodern architectural abstract works, in his Glasgow city centre studio
Ian Hamilton Finlay
In these extracts from his eulogy read at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Alec Finlay remembers his father, the artist, poet, philosopher and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay
Mayo Thompson: Well Red
Neil Cooper discovers an Edinburgh Art and Language outpost in the hands of Red Crayola chief Mayo Thompson
Ross Sinclair: Real Life Scenario
Artist, musician, painter of T-shirts and MDF, Ross Sinclair peels back the layers of his new work in conversation with Alice Bain
#6 - April 2006
Commission: X-REX
Kenny Hunter’s first foray into film—the latest in the MAP commission series. Kate Cowcher introduces the work here.
Report: Whisky and orange juice
A cocktail of corporate collections. Tim Abrahams investigates art world activity
Boys’ Club
Dada is back… or perhaps it never went away. As a major retrospective transfers from Paris to New York, an exhibition in Edinburgh explores the influence of the ‘anti-art’ movement on today’s British practitioners. So is it all dirty jokes and Oedipal angst, or should our hearts belong to Dada?
Portfolio: Emerging artists from RSA exhibition
Alice Bain and Isla Leaver-Yap scanned the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition of student work in March and selected four new talents to celebrate the forthcoming summer degree shows
Back Page: The Fiery Furnaces
Matthew Friedberger, one half of this Brooklyn duo, talks pyschedelia and tea
Roni Horn
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 21 January–26 March and Museion, Bolzano 4 February–30 April 2006
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
Barbican, London, 16 February–21 May 2006
Books: Lost in Space
By Andrew Dodds and published by Book Works Chap Series, 2006
#6 - April 2006
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