National Galleries of Scotland’s 2027 exhibition programme has been unveiled, offering new ways for people of all ages to discover Scotland’s art next year.
Established in 1994, Out of the Blue in Leith, Edinburgh has a packed arts programme for the autumn with something for everyone.
Life in Colour at The Glasgow Gallery brings together four acclaimed Scottish artists – Emma S Davis, Victoria Wylie, Rosanne Barr and Jane Hunter – who offer their own distinctive responses to the world around us.
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The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh is showing an exhibition marking 300 years since the birth in the city of James Hutton, who became known as the father of modern geology.
Review: new Edinburgh gallery The Finch Project launches with an exhibition by Canadian artist Anne Griffiths, reflecting a fresh international perspective.
&Gallery in Edinburgh’s current exhibition showcases the work of 42 artists selected through an international open call, many of whom are exhibiting in Scotland for the first time.
With outlets in Edinburgh and Glasgow, as well as an online shop, the Scottish Design Exchange is a social enterprise based on a unique business model.
Stephen O’Neil Art in the south of Glasgow specialises in architectural-based artworks and related products.
Summerhall Arts in Edinburgh’s year-round visual arts schedule continues, showcasing the work of Garvald Edinburgh, and coming up, Elizabeth Ogilvie + Robert Page, and XEDER and Alex Rigg.
With its origins in 1862, Gallery Franklin is a continuation of one of Scotland’s oldest privately-owned galleries, now including members of the long-established New English Art Club.
Review: now exhibiting at Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery, Frances Macdonald’s distinctive artistic voice has made the west coast of Scotland her very own.
Edinburgh Printmakers is hosting two exhibitions, with artist Jamie Fitzpatrick displaying large-scale sculptures and prints, plus Berlin-based Ukrainian printmaking duo etchingroom1.
Edinburgh-based Irish photographer and writer Miriam Morris will exhibit a new collection of work at the Hox Gallery at the city’s Hoxton Hotel.
Continually updated calendar of events near you and online, including art fairs, auctions, open studios, museums openings and charity events in Scotland, the UK and beyond.
21 – 31 Oct: centring on the theme of Bird and Beast, the 2026 Scottish International Storytelling Festival will celebrate the stories, myths and music that bring us closer to nature.
Review: the long-established Orchestra Baobab bring their infectious West African rhythms to Edinburgh International Festival.
Review: on the 250th anniversary of the founding of modern America, its descent into the ludicrous is highlighted by New York-based clown Geoff Sobelle and his company, in a world premiere spectacular at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Review: a dramatic coming-together of modern and romantic classical works is served up for Edinburgh International Festival audiences by Gingolts Quartet on their rare vintage Italian instruments.
Review: pianist and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev teams up with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to take the power of woodwind to its limits.
Review: Edinburgh’s Hub hosts a dizzying set from acclaimed Scottish jazz-electronic project corto.alto.
12 – 20 Sept: North-East Open Studios (NEOS) is an award-winning collective of artists, makers and designers who open their studios to the public every September.
Review: Dunedin Consort performs Passion of Mary Magdalene by composer Tansy Davies in a new Festival co-commission, written especially for the acclaimed baroque ensemble.
29 Aug – 6 Sep: now in its 23rd year, the Nairn Book and Arts Festival is set to come alive this August with an eclectic mix of events combining literature with all manner of other arts.
Join us as we highlight the news and reviews from the world of music, opera, dance theatre and film.
Review: the long-established Orchestra Baobab bring their infectious West African rhythms to Edinburgh International Festival.
Review: on the 250th anniversary of the founding of modern America, its descent into the ludicrous is highlighted by New York-based clown Geoff Sobelle and his company, in a world premiere spectacular at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Review: Edinburgh’s Hub hosts a dizzying set from acclaimed Scottish jazz-electronic project corto.alto.
16 – 20 June: Scottish Ensemble’s Concerts for a Summer’s Night series returns for 2026, promising vibrant strings and dancing rhythms in radiant venues.
Until 23 May: Scottish theatre company Company of Wolves is touring the country with a radical reimagination of Euripides’ perennial drama The Bacchae.
Review: La Déferlance from Quebec step-up to fill a last-minute vacancy at Òran Mór for Celtic Connections, alongside Scottish electro-folk quartet Birdvox.
Review: Dazzling Scottish multi-instrumentalist Malin Lewis and the Galician rhythms and dance electronica of Baiuca light-up Glasgow St Lukes for Celtic Connections.
Review: Playing from memory, out among the audience, Aurora Orchestra play Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, and examine the story behind it.
Review: Edinburgh’s Hub hosts improvisational saxophonist, spoken-word poet and activist Alabaster DePlume’s fusion of creative music-making and political passion.
Angus Ross Furniture hand-crafts Perthshire wood into exquisite furniture for homes, gardens and public places.
Holding onto a vision of living in harmony with our woodlands, Real Wood Studios in the Scottish Borders are continuing the creative legacy of artist and maker Tim Stead.
Drawing on his knowledge of historical musical instrument construction, Jonathan Hill makes stringed instruments which capture the originality, inventiveness and ethos of craft practices during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Inspired by his own metal spine support, the result of a debilitating back injury, Richard Goldsworthy creates sculptural works in wood and cast metal in
Using local wood from the Scottish Borders, Adrian McCurdy creates one-off pieces of furniture and carved panels, taking inspiration from the material in its rough-hewn form.
Woodturner Angus Clyne produces vessels and sculptures using native wood sourced locally in Perthshire, where he draws inspiration from his surroundings.
The Flora Collection by Max McCance is inspired by plant forms such as cones, seeds, leaves and thorns.
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Few places can rival Leipzig in eastern Germany for the title of Europe’s ‘City of Music’.
David White explores the Hauts-de-France region the ‘slow’ way.
The capital of Catalonia is a great art destination.
Art museums from every genre and era border Venice’s Grand Canal.
From the 9th century Book of Kells to a Turner prize-winner*, art in Dublin continues to impress.
After a day of gallery-hopping, you can continue your art experience at some of London’s top residences.
Exhibitions dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, the Impressionists, J.M.W. Turner, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and others put a shine on the London gallery scene.
How Nantes was reborn through culture.
The enigmatic Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) painted as though she was channelling the universe.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, New York’s Chelsea Hotel was one of the most famous hotels in the world.
This pocket-sized guide for early career artists is an excellent primer for anyone wishing to discover what underpins a professional art practice.
Frida Kajlo at Home traces the life of one of the world’s most iconic artists through the places she loved.
This landmark monograph traces six decades of the Colombian artist Beatriz González’s bold and radical reimagining of images, power and memory through painting, sculptural assemblage and large scale public interventions.
This book tells the story of the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, one of the great masters of the 17th century, and explores how three vibrant cities – Antwerp, Genoa and London – shaped his life and art.
This limited edition reissue of the first study of the East London Group tells the remarkable story of how these untrained London artists became an art world sensation in the inter-war years.
The first question Lachlan Goudie asks himself when he sees a work of art is not why it was created, but how. For this book, he poses that question of artworks created by the earliest humans to artists today.
Available in a bi-lingual English-Dutch edition, this journey through the development of early photography provides a fascinating insight into the origins and development in Belgium of a medium which at the time was the technological wonder of the age.
