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ARTIST ROOMS Lawrence Weiner

The new installation of Laurence Weiner at The McManus marks the first time that the ARTIST ROOMS modern and contemporary art collection have displayed in Dundee. This touring programme is delivered by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, although Weiner and his office were directly involved in the planning of this exhibition.  Certainly, the Read More

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THE PUBLIC IMAGE – Scottish Lady Tiger – FINISSAGE

Entering the space at GENERATOR to explore Michael Curran’s new exhibition on Muriel Spark, The Public Image (Scottish Lady Tiger), one notices how large the gallery feels, with empty spaces between each exhibit. In fact, the Generator Chairperson and curator of the exhibition, Hari MacMillan, explained that the space had been designed deliberately to echo Read More

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On designing and building the V&A Dundee: An interview with Kengo Kuma

Susan Nickalls, a freelance journalist and former student of the Writing Practice and Study programme at the University of Dundee, in conversation with the Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, on the design and building of the V&A Dundee. The interview was filmed at Discovery Point. DURA is grateful for the use of Discovery Point Premises. A Read More

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V&A Dundee: The poetry of buildings, the poetry of objects

At this year’s spring exhibition of Danh Voh’s photographs and sculptural installations of found and preserved objects at the Guggenheim in New York, I felt, viscerally, for the first time what had merely been an abstract idea: the rhythm of buildings, the poetry of objects, the stories that reside within, the narrative webs they are Read More

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MFA Art, Society and Publics

This year’s MFA students have turned the area around the Cooper Gallery into one of the most involved exhibition experiences I’ve ever seen. Josh Wilson’s Project ASaP is not only an excellent pun on the title of the course but involved me ‘asap’ in the gallery. I followed Wilson’s set of instructions to look through Read More

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MFA ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

The MFA in Arts and Humanities is an interdisciplinary degree that gives students an opportunity to combine their studio practice with a wide range of humanities subjects, such as English, Culture and Society, Philosophy, Film Studies and Gender Studies. The synthesis of ideas has resulted in a breathtaking show.  It’s quite a challenge to hike through the Crawford Building to find the exhibits, Read More

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Pittenweem Arts Festival 2018

Part of the undoubted charm of the longstanding Pittenweem Arts Festival is discovering art in a huge variety of unexpected venues. In many cases the art is enhanced by its setting in what are normally domestic or commercial interiors. Add in the possibility of enjoying a lobster roll beside the harbour to sustain you between Read More

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Knots’n Dust

Francis Alÿs is a Belgian-born artist based in Mexico with a long-term interest in the current affairs of the Middle East. Knots’n Dust has been organized by the Beirut Art Centre and was on display in Lebanon in spring this year. Through animation, drawings, paintings and sculpture, Alÿs explores two themes ‒ the complexities of knots Read More

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Life in Motion: Egon Schiele/Francesca Woodman

The rationale behind exhibiting the Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) with the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981) is, to quote Tate Liverpool, that they are “sublimely innovative artists that connect across time and medium.” Wandering through the gallery there’s an immediate sense of kindred spirits, in the ease with which the Read More

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Paolozzi Revealed: Ten days with a creative Titan

Picking up Paolozzi Revealed, I did expect a window into the private life of this creative titan. Instead, this summary of a Masterclass run by the renowned sculptor reads more like a research paper on creativity. But maybe that is indeed, in itself, revealing of Paolozzi, this book seemingly an embodiment of the creative process. In Read More

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