Art

Seven steps to save Scotland’s creative economy

Author / Creator: Dougal Perman

Media type: Article

Date published: 2025

The creative economy, attacked from all sides in recent years, is stagnant. Without investment it would contract. Job losses would be particularly severe in fragile areas such as grassroots music venues


Seven steps to save Scotland’s creative economy

Author / Creator: Dougal Perman

Media type: Article

Date published: 2024

“cutting arts funding is a false economy?” 


A failure of leadership over Glasgow’s “Mack”

Author / Creator: Jackie Kemp

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2024

Glasgow needs its Mack back


Demarco's Edinburgh

Author / Creator: Richard Demarco

Media type: Book

Date published: 2023

Can the Edinburgh Festival survive?


Digging deep with Demarco

Author / Creator: Charlie Ellis

Media type: Article

Date published: 2024

Demarco on Edinburgh Festival and arts.


Highland Sparks

Author / Creator: George Gunn

Media type: Article

Date published: 2024

Highland theatre has a short and impressive past and a bright and beautiful future.


Poor Things: meet the radical Scottish visionary behind the new hit film

Author / Creator: Joe Jackson

Media type: Article

Date published: 2024

Alasdair Gray  was a maverick and polymath – a writer, artist, polemicist, dissident and civic nationalist – who had an immense influence on contemporary Scottish literature and beyond.


Demarco’s Edinburgh

Author / Creator: Richard Demarco

Media type: Book

Date published: 2023

Now in its seventy-sixth year, can the Edinburgh Festival survive?


The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil: An inside story

Author / Creator: Bill Paterson

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Bill Paterson reflects on "The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil" 50 years on


Glasgow Cool of Art: 13 books of fire at the Mackintosh Library

Author / Creator: Johnny Rodger The Drouth price £10.00: https://www.thedrouth.org/product/glasgow-cool-of-art-johnny-rodger/

Date published: 2022

A look at "the full human effect of the cataclysm which destroyed Mackintosh’s masterwork."


Time, travel and the fading magic of Edinburgh

Author / Creator: Christopher Silver

Media type: Opinion

Date published:

The Edinburgh festivals can be understood as process of gentrification. This is a small city which has simply run out of space.