25 h. ago Arts diary: Why I'm more of a Sindy girl but will still be looking forward to the Barbie exhibition in Glasgow

Childhood preferences will be set aside for Glasgow showcase

Events

31 h. ago Exhibition celebrating 70 years of Barbie heads to Scotland for the first time

The exhibition will feature over 250 objects, marking seven decades of the World's most famous doll.

Politics

39 h. ago Glasgow museum to host iconic Barbie exhibition offering a 'joyful experience'

Barbie: The Exhibition, which first opened in London in 2024, will come to Glasgow next year to showcase the doll’s lasting influence

Politics

44 h. ago Barbie: Original costumes from Margot Robbie film, Dream House go on show in Glasgow exhibition

Barbie: The Exhibition will be the first ever in Scotland dedicated to the doll franchise

Events

3 d. ago Wigtown Book Festival diary: AI's thoughts on love and how a small town can rally emergency musicians

Local pub comes to the rescue after annual ceilidh cancelled due to bad weather

Culture

4 d. ago Wigtown Book Festival Diary: How Lord Robertson's talk made the lights go out and the bonkers world of Wigtown

Jane Bradley’s festivals diary is on tour to Wigtown Book Festival this weekend

Culture

8 d. ago Village dubbed 'jewel of the Cotswolds' that featured in Bridget Jones' Diary is divided over strict new planning rules

As of this week, Snowshill in Gloucestershire will come under an Article 4 Direction by Tewkesbury Borough Council - and with it the imposition of strict rules to protect its heritage.

Politics

1 week ago Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion at the Barbican review — bury me here

Couture is ripped, stained, buried, exploded and dragged through the mud in an intelligent blockbuster fashion exhibition for the ages

Politics

2 w. ago RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY: England star Haskell's gym collapses with £1million debt

Will hulking former England rugby star James Haskell, who regularly rubs shoulders with royalty, be able to shrug off the latest grievous blow?

Economics

2 w. ago Dirty Looks review – room after room of utterly filthy fashion

Barbican, London From Balenciaga’s £1,400 faux-filthy trainers to JordanLuca’s urine-stained jeans, designers can’t get enough grimy stuff on the catwalk and this seamy exhibition of it all is a mucky joy to beholdDon’t be deceived by Kate Moss’s Hunter wellies at the entrance. Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion showcases clothes that are deliberately distressed and filthy, and will come as a shock to anyone whose idea of a fashion exhibition involves glass vitrines and slick, ambient glamour, or the sort of wildly popular blockbusters put on (and paid for) by brands such as Dior and Chanel.Perhaps because gloss is regarded as an integral element of luxury fashion, objects such as designer dirty trainers tend to infuriate people. There is only one pair at the Barbican’s first fashion exhibition in almost a decade. But the way Balenciaga’s £1,400 faux-filthy high tops came to be not just widely coveted, but objects that seemed to express the disconnect between high fashion and ...

Politics