RIPPLES ON THE POND Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, until Feb 2016, glasgowlife.org. uk/museums/goma A prime selection from the gallery’s collection curated by Katie Bruce, and designed as a conversation between works on paper by women and the moving image.
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An Artist Rooms display of Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), the man who made Ben-Day dots into his signature style. See preview, page 112.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN GLASGOW OPEN
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh, until Fri 31 Jul, nationalgalleries. org/modernartgalleries
HOUSE ART FESTIVAL Various venues, Glasgow, Fri 1 May, glasgowopenhouse. wordpress.com
Highlights | VISUAL ART
Emerging and established contemporary artists that inhabit Glasgow open the doors of the city’s domestic and disused spaces to reveal a program of exhibitions, performances and events. See feature, page 113.
HIDDEN DOOR FESTIVAL
Old Street Lighting
Depot, Edinburgh, Fri 22–Sat 30 May, hiddendoor.org Artists of all stripes congregate once more for the Hidden Door interdisciplinary arts festival, which features dozens of cool musicians, bands, artists, poets and filmmakers under one roof, often working in new and exciting combinations. See
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artist resident in Glasgow. Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe
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GLASGOW
CHRISTINE BORLAND AND BRODY
CONLON: CIRCLES OF FOCUS CCA, Glasgow, Fri 3 Apr–Sun 17 May, cca-glasgow.org Collaborative artwork exploring human body donation as a site for artistic research and practice. See preview, page 117.
KEITH ALLAN AND THOMAS DOWNES: NEVER SPOTTED
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David Dale Gallery and Studios, Broad Street, Bridgeton, Sat 11 Apr–Sun 10 May, daviddalegallery. co.uk Joint show from Copenhagen- based artists. See preview, page 116.
GORDON DOUGLAS: THE GARDEN
IS OUR WALL CCA, Glasgow, Tue 14, Thu 23 & Thu 30 Apr and Sat 9 May, cca-glasgow.org Collaborative show involving discussion with other participants, originating in a discussion about Krakow’s Planty Park, a green belt around the old city which was created to replace the old city walls.
GEORGE HENRY LONGLY: VOLUME EXCESS
Kendall Koppe Gallery, Sat 18 Apr– Sun 31 May, kendallkoppe.com Work in wood and clay, and a video.
The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, until Sun 24 May, themoderninstitute.com Work by renowned American installation artist.
URARA TSUCHIYA: CONNOISSEUR’S WORLD
Queens Park Railway Club, Thu 30 Apr–Sat 23 May, queensparkrailwayclub.co.uk Performance, sculpture and photographic work from Japanese
ARTIST ROOMS: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Clydebank Museum, until Sat 23 May, west-dunbarton.gov.uk/ leisure-parks-events Moving, arresting and truly significant work by the legendary and prolific American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring ground-breaking portraiture of his contemporaries – Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Patti Smith – as well as his iconic self-portraits (such as the smoking shot from 1980, pictured right).
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POSSIBILITIES OF THE OBJECT: EXPERIMENTS IN MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN ART
Fruitmarket Gallery, until Mon 25 May, fruitmarket.co.uk A group exhibition looking at the ways in which Brazilian artists made cutting- edge art from the 1950s to the 70s, curated by Paulo Venancio Filho. See review, page 116.
GEORGIA HORGAN: MACHINE ROOM
Collective Gallery, City Observatory & Dome, until Sun 19 Apr, collectivegallery. net Writing, images and artefacts related to the proliferation of the textile industry in Scotland and how it affected witch hunting in the 17th century.
DWELLING Dovecot Studios, Fri 15 May–Sat 4 Jul, dovecotstudios.com Rugs created as part of a collaboration between Dovecot Studios and the photographic artist.
LIZ LARNER: SPACE IS BETTER
THAN TIME, BUT TIME IS OK GARRY FABIAN MILLER:
Caribbean artists of the past 50 years.
DAVID MCDIARMID: PROJECTION Interviewroom 11, Fri 10–Sat 25 Apr, ir11.org.uk Sculptural installation by Edinburgh-based artist interested in the concept of megalomania in architecture.
RSA NEW CONTEMPORARIES Royal Scottish Academy, until Fri 8 May, royalscottishacademy.org The RSA’s annual show of work by 72 graduates from the 2014 degree shows in art schools around the country, one of the art calendar’s most important showcases for emerging talent.
REFLECTIONS: A PROGRAMME OF NEW AND EVER-CHANGING
DISPLAYS
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, until Fri 31 Jul, nationalgalleries.org/ modernartgalleries A changing set of displays hosting work by major contemporary artists, including (among others) Louise Lawler, Taryn Simon, Cathy Wilkes, Martin Creed, Gabriel Orozco and Abraham Cruzvillegas, and featuring the recently acquired 1912 Picasso drawing, ‘Head’.
sometime model, Lee Miller took more than 1000 photographs of Picasso, and he in turn painted her portrait six times. This show features approximately 100 of Miller’s images as well as a painting and drawing by Picasso, and explores the long friendship between a great artist and an extraordinary photographer.
GOLD The Queen’s Gallery, until Sun 26 Jul, royalcollection.org.uk A look at the metal’s amazing beauty, versatility and symbolism uses objects drawn from the Royal Collection, such as the Rillaton Cup, a Bronze Age funerary object; a gold crown from Ecuador and an 18th-century tiger-head made of gold and rock crystal from India.
DANIEL DOMIG: THE HEART IS A PRIDEFUL BEAST
Warburton Gallery, until Sun 19 Apr, warburtongallery.com Expressive quasi-figurative paintings, the first UK show from Canada-born artist who studied in Vienna.
KIRKCALDY
ARTIST ROOMS: DIANE ARBUS Kirkcaldy Galleries, until Sun 31 May , onfife.com/venues/kirkcaldy- galleries Compelling collection of works by the photographer who was repeatedly drawn to the fringes of society. See review, page 116.
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FRANK WALTER LEE MILLER AND PICASSO
Ingleby Gallery, until Sat 23 May, inglebygallery.com Work by Antiguan outsider artist (1926–2009), one of the most intriguing Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Sat 23 May–Fri 31 Jul, nationalgalleries.org/ portraitgallery The photographer, and