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A Creative Scotland in waiting

A year on from the implosion of Creative Scotland and a year before the independence referendum, where do things stand at the funding body? Johnny Gailey attends a recent Open Session event in Glasgow hosted by CEO Janet Archer, and finds the organisation caught in a curious state of flux.

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Glasgow International 2014: programme announced

The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.

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Edinburgh’s self-regarding asylum gets the press it deserves

Mark Ravenhill’s recent speech at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe sounded the death knell for state subsidy of the arts. Scottish Review editor Kenneth Roy takes the playwright’s views – and their misrepresentation in the right-wing press – to task.

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Creative Scotland reveals interim plan

A just announced interim plan from the Scottish arts funding body reveals that artform reviews will underpin the development of a longer-term plan for 2014-17.

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Glasgow 2014: art stars come out for cultural programme

With a brand identity designed by Jim Lambie and a programme of artist initiated projects courtesy of David Dale Gallery, the recently announced cultural programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games sees plenty of visual arts alongside the sport.

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Collective Gallery: views for the future

Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery is moving to new premises on Calton Hill in the summer. Prior to that, though, there’s work to be done and funds to be raised with an auction of artists’ work. We talk to Director Kate Gray about new departures and exciting possibilities.

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Policy consultation: No ifs and buts is no good for the arts

Policy makers often outsource consultation to independent specialists, but do they get the full story or just the tidied up version? Ahead of Creative Scotland’s open meetings series, the arts professional behind Stramash Arts shares first-hand experience of having the ifs, buts and maybes expunged from the conversation that led to the funding body’s creation.

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