31 h. ago 'Gran's saucy paintings were slammed – but we're having last laugh'

Now 17 years after her death, Beryl Cook's pictures of pub life are being appreciated by a younger audience and a new exhibition celebrating the artist will give her the acclaim she deserves

Politics

60 h. ago Leith exhibition to celebrate Scottish surfing and surf photography

A new exhibition will celebrate both the skills of Scotland’s surfers and talents of the photographers who capture their exploits, writes Margaret Neighbour

Culture

8 d. ago Scottish Maritime Museum announces international maritime concert

Zawisza Czarny, sea shanty choir from Poland and the Glasgow-based Solo Way Ukrainian Choir will celebrate the seafaring and folk traditions that unite countries across the world

Culture

1 week ago North Ayrshire Provost officially opens Scottish Maritime Museum's summer exhibition

'Beneath the Waves' brings together a historic ceramic collection recovered from the shipwrecked SS Eagle by Graeme Bruce, award-winning photography by Lawson Wood and detailed marine sketches by Christina Riley.

Politics

1 week ago ‘It was love at first sight, again’: Prague exhibition celebrates work of pair at heart of Europe’s avant garde

Anne-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung battled with the Nazis and created some of the most riveting abstract art of the last centuryThey created some of the most riveting abstract art of the 20th century, fought Nazis with the gun and the pen, married, divorced and married again. Now the continent-spanning and nigh-forgotten love story of the Burton-Tayloresque couple at the heart of the European avant garde is finally being given its due at a major art institution.And We’ll Never Be Parted, exhibiting at Prague’s Kunsthalle gallery, is the first show to reunite the Norwegian painter Anna-Eva Bergman and German-born Hans Hartung. Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago Photos of military parade marking Army's 250th anniversary amid anti

A large military parade showcasing American power, requested by President Donald Trump to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary, took place in Washington, D.C., featuring tanks, troops and marching bands. Hours before the parade, anti-war protesters displayed signs reading “Homes not drones” near a military equipment exhibit on the National Mall celebrating the Army’s birthday.

Events

2 w. ago Scottish dates announced for 'unforgettable' exhibition train to celebrate major rail anniversary

Railway 200 showcase to visit five Scottish stations in October

Politics

2 w. ago East Lothian woodworking school marks 40 years with Graduate Exhibition and Furniture Sale

The Chippendale International School of Furniture, a globally recognised woodworking school based in East Lothian, Scotland, will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2025 with a milestone Graduate Exhibition and Fine Furniture Sale, taking place from 12 to 14 June.

Economics

3 w. ago New community exhibition at Irvine's Scottish Maritime Museum calls out fast fashion for World Ocean Day

Museum is bringing together charities, community organisations and small businesses that are already working locally to help protect the environment and reduce the impact on the planet

Culture

3 w. ago ‘People were repressed into silence’: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism’s horrors

A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of FrancoThe map of Paco Roca’s mind, a landscape of memory and loss, unfolds across the walls of an exhibition hall in Madrid, inviting visitors to acquaint themselves with the bittersweet geographies that have shaped the work of one of Spain’s best-known graphic artists.Roca, whose comics have explored such varied themes as Francoist reprisals, the exiled Spanish republicans who helped liberate Paris from the Nazis, family histories and the depredations of Alzheimer’s, is the subject of a new show called Memory: An Emotional Journey Through the Comics of Paco Roca. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Scottish Maritime Museum summer exhibition celebrates underwater world

'Beneath the Waves' runs from Saturday, June 7 until Saturday, September 13.

Culture

last month Pope Leo XIV visits a hilltop summer residence that Francis turned into museum

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome

Culture