The Velvet Underground

At times harrowing, at times sweet, director Todd Haynes’ lead on this documentary film effectively recreates the sensory overload of a Velvet Underground record. Haynes’ filmography is not shy of experimental musician biopics and documentaries, including I’m Not There (2007) and Sonic Youth: Disappearer (1990). In this instance, the techniques used often submerge the viewer into the avant-garde and counter-culture lifestyles depicted for the film’s larger part to hypnotising and evocative effect.

The Post

For Stephen Spielberg, the story of a rampant Republican government wielding its power to silence the free press was simply too prescient to reject; the urgency apparent even during Trump's notorious campaign and before his employment of "alternative facts". A believer in objective truth, Spielberg set to work assembling a cast and crew, creating the film Read More

The Florida Project

  The first thing to mention about Sean Baker’s modern classic The Florida Project is how beautifully understated it is. At no moment does this film feel like it is shoving its contents in your face, desperate to leave a lasting impression. Instead, the performances that capture your attention are at once so subtle, yet Read More

DCA Thomson

3rd December 2016- 19th February 2017, DCA Jings! Crivvens! Help ma Boab! As part of the celebrations of 80 years of the iconic Oor Wullie and The Broons, DCA ‘s latest exhibition features the responses of six contemporary artists to items from the DC Thomson archives.   This follows on from the summer’s Oor Wullie Bucket Read More

Queen of Katwe

Queen of Katwe, directed by Mira Nair of Monsoon Wedding fame, tells the real-life story of chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi. Growing up in the Katwe slums of Uganda, she meets chess coach Robert Katende and discovers she has a talent that could offer her a way out of poverty. So far, so rags-to-riches. But this Read More

Katy Dove (1970 – 2015)

DCA 17th September – 20th November 2016 What do you get if you mix Kandinsky with Matisse, then add a tiny pinch of Picasso? The answer:   the work of Katy Dove. In this memorial exhibition –  Dove sadly having died of cancer in 2015 – DCA’s curator Graeme Domke brings us a fascinating collection of Read More

Katy Dove Memorial Exhibition

DCA, Gallery 2 17th September- 20th November The DCA are giving audiences a new chance to see the work of the much acclaimed artist Katy Dove in a memorial exhibition. The works exhibited range the full breadth of her artist career and even include animations she made while still a student. Dove blends sound and Read More

PUBLISHING AS PROCESS: An exhibition of artists’ publishing by Banner Repeater

Centrespace, VRC Curator’s Talk: Thursday 8 September Exhibition: 9 – 29 September 2016 “GIANT JONG KICKS UN*” *self-generated headline courtesy of @LowAnimalSpirit, Ami Clarke   PUBLISHING AS PROCESS is an exhibition that presents us with an array of visual distributions; publications and live happenings are situated alongside each other in the two rooms of the Read More

CD-ROMS & Small Wars

Divided between DCA’s two gallery spaces, CD-ROMS and Small Wars offer two distinctly different yet complementary viewpoints on the role of video games in contemporary culture. Co-curated with Dr. William Huber of Abertay University’s Centre for Excellence in Game Education, the exhibition participates in the championing of games not just as artefacts of popular culture, Read More

Copying Errors

Copying Errors by Glasgow-based artist Duncan Marquiss is the latest solo exhibition to take over the main galleries at DCA. Marquiss is a former Fine Art Printmaking student of DJCAD, who graduated in 2001 and went on to complete his MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2005. The title of the show, which comprises Read More