So much culture, so little time.
4 VISUAL ART LINDA MCCARTNEY RETROSPECTIVE
5 FILM THE SOUVENIR
A talented photographer in her own right, Linda Eastman proved she was not just a Beatle wife, and this exhibition shows her intimate work such as family scenes in Scotland plus rock pals including Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young. See review, page 100. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, until Sun 12 Jan. Joanna Hogg’s superb new film, a romantic drama, is set in the early 1980s and explores the mysterious relationship between a filmmaking student and a worker in the Foreign Office. See feature, page 19, and review, page 62. Out now.
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6 KIDS STICK MAN
7 BOOKS BLOODY SCOTLAND
8 COMEDY TAPE FACE
9 THEATRE SOLARIS
One of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-loved books is adapted by Freckle Productions as the titular hero finds himself in a dog’s mouth and set on fire. Fear not, he’s sure to find his way back to his family tree. See preview, page 68. King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 6–Sun 8 Sep.
Now one of the country’s foremost literary festivals, the Bloody Scotland folk have another top line-up in place, including Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Ian Rankin, as well as wedded double acts Nicci French and Ambrose Parry. See preview, page 54. Various venues, Stirling, Fri 20–Sun 22 Sep. Over 50 million people have seen him strut his stuff online, and here the silent comedic artist formerly known as The Boy with Tape on His Face promises ‘new jokes, new props, same tape’. See First & Last, page 136. SEC, Glasgow, Fri 27 Sep; Dundee Rep, Sat 28 Sep.
David Greig’s adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel (famously turned into two different movies) features three scientists orbiting a planet and asking the big questions. See preview, page 90. Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 12 Sep–Sat 5 Oct.
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10 CHOSEN BY VISUAL ARTIST DAVID BATCHELOR CUT AND PASTE: 400 YEARS OF COLLAGE
Collage was the most revolutionary and democratic development in art of the last 100 years. It changed how art could be made, what it could be made from, and what it could look like. Collage made perspective and modelling, and even drawing, unnecessary. It was at the heart of some of the best art of the last century and it continues to inspire artists of all kinds. Many of the sculptures in my exhibition at Ingleby are three-dimensional collages, just scraps of found materials arranged in layers and embedded in blocks of concrete. For me, the revelation of the excellent exhibition at SNGMA is in the way it finds the origins of collage not in modern art at all, but in children’s games, crafts and hobbies. David Batchelor: My Own Private Bauhaus, Ingleby, Edinburgh, until Sat 28 Sep; Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), Edinburgh, until Sun 27 Oct.
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