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ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT

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Gayfield Square is perhaps not where you’d expect to encounter a thriving alternative art scene, writes Rhys Fullerton, but that’s where you’ll find Whitespace.

It's a gallery very different from others you've probably come across before in Edinburgh and Broughton. 

WARM TIMES AROUND THE CORNER

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Clear skies above and penetrating winds below. It’s been properly cold in Broughton today and sleet’s predicted for later in the week.

No wonder fingers have been turning blue in the barony.

These ones belong to staff and children at The Edinburgh Nursery on East London Street.

NEW LIGHT ON 'DARK' REGISTER

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New information has appeared about the existence of a ‘Dark’ Buildings At Risk Register, and the placing on it of the former Royal High School (RHS) premises at 5–7 Regent Road.

City of Edinburgh Council’s position comes across as nonsensical and self-contradictory. Government agency decision making seems to take place at the discretion of individuals and to be hidden from view.

Recap on a disappearance

BLAST OF THE GREAT ROMANTIC

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St Valentine’s Day: What’s not to love about it?

Let me count the ways. 

1. Why would I want to buy a single rose now at the same price as a whole bunch at any other time of the year? What’s more, a beautiful (possibly genetically modified) rose which usually withers and dies by lunchtime. During times of austerity, I’ve often just purchased the stem.

STREETS, SPECTRES AND A WADING BIRD

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In the new group exhibition at Union Gallery – Streetlife – there is an enjoyably strange work by the Glasgow-based painter Frank McNab.

It shows a headscarfed woman laden with shopping in mid-air in the void at the centre of a tenement's common stair.

McNab says he's drawn to these spaces – neither quite indoors nor out, home or abroad – but the ambiguities redouble as one starts to wonder whether the woman depicted here is falling, floating or ascending.