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NEW FILM SEASON STARTS ON FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY
As reported last week, the New Town Community Cinema will run two strands of films – one for families in the afternoon and one for adults in the evening – on alternate Fridays in the Glasite Meeting House at 33 Barony Street.
Below, programmers Rory Bonass and James Mooney introduce their first two choices.
Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003), 80 mins, Certificate 12A
Another Minimalism at The Fruitmarket Gallery on Market Street has been beautifully curated, and it’s wonderful to see such care and attention given to each piece, writes Rhys Fullerton.
The works on display are made as we look and experience them, and can change due to various conditions such as light and time.
My favourite is ‘Shadows (After Atget)’ by Spencer Finch. Finch’s multi-coloured fluorescent light tubes are minimalist, and bring light and colour to the room.
There's nowt so queer as folk, and no way of telling exactly what will annoy some of them whilst leaving others unperturbed.
Spurtle learns that this large, slightly battered advertisement for upmarket properties at 24 Great King Street has ignited pockets of indignation around Drummond Place.
It represents, to some, the 'creeping commercialisation of the New Town', and smoke is now billowing out of their trousers.
Resistance and Persistence is a group exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, which takes its title from Sean Scully's essay on the mid-20th-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi.
Scully’s abstract oil painting 'Untitled (Doric)' is one of the highlights of this show, and will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with his work.
I admire this piece because it is imperfect. You can see each brushstroke, you can see each colour merging with the next. And that for me is what makes it so appealing.
Support for the Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) plans to create a new home for St Mary’s Music School at 5–7 Regent Road has gathered momentum over recent days.
Voices from the ‘heritage lobby’, local community, politics and the Arts have gone public with their approval ahead of Friday’s extended deadline for comments to the Council.
These are by no means the only opinions on the subject, but they are for the time being the most audible.
Armed with a new camera over Christmas, Rhys Fullerton went wandering the streets of Broughton in search of the medium and the message.
From the tremendous to the trifling, from the trivium to the trivial, here's a selection of what he found.
OUT OF CONTROL
From the Caledonian Mercury, 16 May 1785:
Wednesday afternoon, one of the flour carts belonging to the Mills at Canonmills, in passing through a toll-bar in the neighbourhood of that village, which made a noise in opening, the horses took fright, and ran most furiously till at Beaverhall.
A young woman, sitting on the front of the cart, was thrown down between it and the horses, where her cloaths had been entangled, and bruised in such a manner, that her life is despaired of.
Rabbits have thrived in Scotland ever since their introduction here by the Romans.
Likewise bawties, mappies, moups, moppies and dear little leprones.
In part this has been due to their intense joie de vivre; in part to their encouragement by the Normans, who began husbanding them in underground Hefner Mansions known in Scots as conyngares from at least the 1400s.
RHYS FULLERTON TAKES A LOOK
The Open Eye Gallery starts 2016 with its 35th birthday, and 50 artists – both emerging and more established, but all represented by the gallery – are on hand to help celebrate it.
Established in 1982, Open Eye was originally located on Cumberland Street before relocating to Abercromby Place just over a decade ago.
I’ve picked four of my favourite works, which I feel sum up this exhibition and the gallery as a whole.
Alberto Morrocco – ‘Life Class’
A cold walk over Calton Hill this afternoon.
And suddenly we were not alone.
Between the hill and the sky, an amber vibration.
And then this kestrel rippling, attention fixed on the frost-stiffened grass.
Pure concentration.
