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Paul Huxley R.A. (British, b.1938) Line on Turquoise, No. 25 (1963) is one of 190 lots in the Lyon & Turnbull live online auction Contemporary & Post-War Art (Wed Aug 19). See ARTS NEWS ALISON KINNAIRD M.B.E ART IN GLASS 2020 OPEN STUDIO EXHIBITION 1st – 31st August and thereafter by appointment • 10am – 5pm

An Open Studio Exhibition in the historic village of Temple Alison has an international reputation for her work in glass and music. She will be displaying new work, some of which came directly out of the COVID-19 situation. Shillinghill Studios. Photo: Robin Morton Shillinghill Studios. Photo: Robin The gallery is a large airy building which can welcome visitors safely. Visitors may phone to arrange a private viewing. Online Virtual Tour and more information available at:

‘Lockdown 2020’. Photo: Robin Morton ‘Lockdown 2020’. Photo: Robin www.alisonkinnaird.com

Shillinghill, Temple, Midlothian. EH23 4SH • Tel: 01875 830 328 • Email: [email protected] www.alisonkinnaird.com

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Up close and personal with Lorenzo Bartolini’s The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz (1821-1822) at the Scottish National Gallery, Photo: Neil Hanna

he Scottish National Gallery reopens on Monday 1808), otherwise known as the Skating Minister. August 17 followed by the Scottish National Modern One has works by Pablo Picasso, Jenny Saville, Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) on Monday Francis Bacon, the Scottish Colourists, Salvador Dalí and August 24. Visitor numbers at any one time will be limited, René Magritte among many others. The grounds of the allowing for an unusually intimate experience of the art. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art are also open (no Time-slots can be booked online. Admission remains free, ticket required) with specially created sculpture trails. A pop- but tickets must be booked in advance up to two weeks up cafe in front of the main entrance to Modern Two is now ahead. offering takeaway refreshments and snacks. SHORT COURSES 2020/21 Visitors to the Scottish National Gallery can reacquaint The Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the themselves with works such as Diego Velázquez’s Old Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Booking is now OPEN for our programme of DAY and EVENING courses beginning Woman Cooking Eggs, Sir Edwin Landseer’s Monarch of the Two) will reopen in the autumn. from September 2020. From a weekly morning, afternoon, evening or full day course Glen and Sir Henry Raeburn’s Reverend Robert Walker (1755- www.nationalgalleries.org we hope you find something to inspire you. Our courses offer students the opportunity Exploring cross-over art forms on digital platforms, to develop their interests and skills in a wide range of subjects, benefiting from our Scottish Ensemble and Scottish Dance Theatre have tutors’ depth of knowledge and passion for their subject. developed a series of Solo Collaborations. The first, these bones, this flesh, this skin, by composer Martin BEGINNERS | DRAWING & PAINTING | JEWELLERY Suckling and choreographer Joan Clevillé is performed by dancer João Castro and Scottish Ensemble’s Artistic MIXED MEDIA | FIGURE | INTRO TO DRAWING Director Jonathan Morton and filmed by Genevieve ONLINE LECTURE SERIES | CONTEMPORARY LEITH LANDSCAPES Reeves. Three four-minute musical works and three four-minute choreographed works for camera have INTRO TO PAINTING | PHOTOGRAPHY | INTRO TO PRINTMAKING been created and through the bespoke website viewers can combine different musical and visual layers, with up Leith School of Art, 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HW to 21 possible variations. www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk | 0131 554 5761 | [email protected] www.thesebonesthisfleshthisskin.com 4 | 14 August | Issue 126 14 August | Issue 126 | 5 Arts News

Artmap Argyll open studios are open for visitors range of work includes sculpture, woodwork, painting, over two weekends this year (Aug 21-24 & 29-30) with drawing, printmaking, photography, textiles, ceramics and thirty participating artists and venues spread across the jewellery. This year’s brochure is available as a download. beautiful Argyll countryside from Taynauilt in the north Pictured: Lucy Gray, Reflections, shell sculpture First Scottish solo show to Kilberry in the south and Helensburgh in the east. The www.artmapargyll.co.uk Arturs Akopjans ‘My Colour is Summer’ 1-22 August

Velvet Easel in Portobello has reopened under new owner Jane Grant with a daily intake of new artwork from artists. Our faves include Stanley Bird’s animal portraits (pictured: The Little Prince), winterly landscapes by Anne Skinner and Bespoke picture framing – ask about 01368 865 141 historically-based stained glass panels 144 High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian by Frans Wesselman. our home consultation service www.coastart.co.uk www.velveteasel.co.uk

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FINE ART GALLERY anna king | solo show opening friday 24th july

www.resipolestudios.co.uk loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx 01967 431506 Lyon & Turnbull has a live online auction of Contemporary & Post-War Art (Aug 19), Art & Picture Framing A contemporary art gallery featuring leading Scottish names such as John Byrne, Alan Davie, Alasdair Gray and John DUNBAR Bellany and international figures like Yayoi Kusama, David Hockney, Cy Twombly and Jenny in St Andrews Holzer. With estimates between £50 and £8,000, the 190 lots range from monochromatic multiples to colourful, expressive landscapes and still lifes. Pictured: Brent Millar, Swan, 2010, oil on linen, est. £700-900 www.lyonandturnbull.com

The McManus Art Gallery and Museum in Dundee reopens on Thursday August 20 with two new exhibitions focusing on change in the city. C 0 C C A Love Letter to Dundee: Joseph McKenzie Photographs .5 C 1964-1987 (until Oct 24, 2021) features black and white � <( images by the man widely considered to be the father 15' _y u 0 of modern Scottish photography. Time and Tide: The 0 � Transformation of The Tay (until Apr 18, 2021) looks at the 0 Gallery27 offers professional & creative picture influence of one of Scotland’s major rivers in transforming framing and showcases a mix of Scottish Dancing Light Philip Raskin Dundee from a small medieval settlement to Scotland’s artists and makers fourth largest city. 138 South Street Open Mon to Sat 10 - 4 (Sun by appointment) The gallery is now open – 8 Spott Rd DUNBAR East Lothian St Andrews, KY16 9EQ Earlier this year The McManus was named Best Visitor www.visitgallery27com come and visit. 01334 474331 Attraction in the 2019/20 Scottish Thistle Awards, 07942 676804 I [email protected] [email protected] www.sprosongallery.com Scotland’s tourism industry “Oscars”. Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Closed Sun & Mon sprosongallery @visitgallery27 www.mcmanus.co.uk 8 | 14 August | Issue 126 14 August | Issue 126 | 9 Arts News

n Lanntair in Stornoway in the Isle of ALewis enters phase one of its reopening on Monday August 17 with a new Sketchbook Drawing Aside the Journey Project exhibition in the main gallery created by PAM CARTER 2020 islanders during lockdown. Over 100 residents received a sketchbook by post and were emailed 8 August – 12 September | Over 40 original paintings daily challenges or prompts over the course of 30 days. The exhibition features over 3,000 scanned images alongside the original sketchbooks. It is anticipated that An Lanntair will enter phase two of its reopening in mid-September, including the cafe-bar areas and the cinema

Dusk at the Stacks programme. www.lanntair.com

24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD 01224 625629 [email protected] Open Thur–Sat from 11-4 www.galleryheinzel.com

AUCTIONS THIS AUTUMN

Contemporary & Post-War Art | 19 AUG Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property In the exhibition Times Like These at Edinburgh’s of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres | 2 & 3 SEPT Dundas Street Gallery (Aug 21-29), members Jewellery, Watches & Silver | 15 SEPT of the London-based collective The Artists African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 16 SEPT Pool offer a personal response to finding their Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 30 SEPT lives turned upside down by the pandemic. Select Jewellery & Watches | LONDON | 22 OCT Combining new ideas developed during Modern Made: Modern & Post-War Art, lockdown with older works which continue Design & Studio Ceramics | LONDON | 23 OCT to resonate, the diverse exhibition encourages Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 28 OCT viewers to contemplate their own experience in 03 DEC Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | these extraordinary times. left: JOHN BELLANY (1942-2013) ‘RADIANT LIGHT’ IN HARBOUR The Artist’s Pool was established with the intention of embracing the power of art to bring people together. The team believe in art’s ability to heal and communicate across social and cultural boundaries, using their exhibitions and

here are four Tfeatured artists in the current exhibition at Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles, entitled Both Sides of the Tweed (until TIMES Oct 9). Ann Armstrong’s subjects in pastel, watercolour or oil range

Lot 120 Lot 125 Lot 115 from the grey, subdued Frances MacDonald R.G.I Frippy Jameson (British, B.1978) Pip McGarry (British, B.1955) light of a Parisian street (Scottish B.1945) ‘Jamaica’ ‘Zebras’ LIKE ‘At the Races’ Est. £2,000-£3,000 Est. £1,200-£1,600 in winter to the blinding Est. £400-£600 midday sun on the Nile to a brooding, Scottish Saturday 22 August | 10am hillside shrouded by Sporting, Antiques, Fine Arts and Jewellery Auction cloud. Live Online Landscape artist Deborah Phillips, daughter THESEART EXHIBITION Bid Now www.brownandturner.co.uk of the Scottish artist 36 High Street, Jedburgh, TD8 6AG | 01835 863 445 Douglas Phillips, has followed in her father’s PV1: Friday 21 August 5:30 - 8:30 pm PV2: Saturday 22 August 12 - 3 pm footsteps, collecting reference material in the Exhibition : 21 - 29 August 2020 Scottish countryside and Monday - Friday 12 - 6 pm painting in acrylic from Saturday 12 - 3 pm her studio overlooking Sunday Closed the Firth of Tay. Jackie Henderson Helen Campbell works in acrylic to create Esra Kizir Gökçen Adam Lucy quirky still life studies and Renee Rilexie figurative pieces, building Nicola Weir them up by alternating Hannah Rosnes paint and glaze, then rubbing back The Stonehaven Art Club Annual Marianne Frank to reveal previous layers of colour. Exhibition has moved from the Town Hall John Slavin Textiles and collage then provide to the internet this year, with the website Izabela Piechota added texture. detailing all the exhibitors, including artists’ names, titles of works, media Esperanza Gómez-Carrera Gallery owner Moy Mackay works with Merino fleece fibres used and prices. You can pay securely via to ‘paint with wool’, creating PayPal or using your credit/debit card. www.theartistspool.co.uk Showing Scottish artists and makers Delivery is free within the UK or you the.artists.pool dream-like “felt paintings” of extraordinary warmth and texture. can arrange to collect from the artist. 4A Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry, EH30 9RA Pictured: Jackie Henderson, Betty Pictured: Val Downie, Catterline Cottages, 0131 319 2140 www.alliumqueensferry.com brusho on paper 6 Dundas St, EH3 6HZ, Edinburgh Thurs-Mon 11-4 Appointments outwith these times and Doris Hope Gill Knight www.moymackaygallery.com www.stonehavenartclub.org.uk 12 | 14 August | Issue 126 14 August | Issue 126 | 13 Arts News

Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum reopens on Monday August 17. Admission is free, but tickets must be pre-booked online. The 22 galleries hold a wide range of collections, including natural history, arms and armour, Egyptian artefacts and art and design from many movements, notably Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross and work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. North East www.glasgowlife.org.uk Ensemble

12 June – 25 August

Mixed Summer Show Pam Carter returns to Aberdeen’s including: Gallery Heinzel for her first solo Mary Louise Butterworth exhibition there in three years (Aug Stuart Buchanan 8-Sep 12). Comprising almost 50 David E Johnston RSW original paintings reflecting her love Kate Steenhauer of the west coast of Scotland, this collection includes numerous views Shelagh Swanson of Jura, which she always looks to capture on her visits to the islands and by which she likes to orientate herself. She says: “I experimented with colour and texture and was quite pleased with some of the results. Rum in the Pink, for example (pictured, oil on canvas), isn’t my usual palette.” www.galleryheinzel.com

Clience Studio in Castle Douglas has reopened for business. Gallery owner and artist Angela Lawrence used lockdown to update her website, adding a substantial number of new images and gift items produced from her Galloway paintings and a Summer Sale section. Look out Stuart Buchanan Stuart for new seascapes and landscapes

Catterline and semi-abstract paintings on two themes – Wind on the High Tops and eionstewartfineart.com Hebridean Skies – during Spring Fling, Wed-Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-2 Sun-Tue: Closed which this year has been postponed until October. Pictured: Evening 55 Allardice St Stonehaven Aberdeenshire AB39 2AB 01569 785 606 sunshine, Carrick, oil www.cliencestudio.co.uk

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GALLERY 2 Read all about it! David Hockney: A Vincent van 50 Women Life, by Catherine Gogh: A Life Sculptors, by Dr Cusset, pub. in Letters, ed. Joanna Sperryn- Arcadian Books Nienke Bakker, Jones, pub. Aurora This meticulously Leo Jansen & Metro As a further researched hybrid of reappraisal of Hans Luijten, novel and biography women in the arts, draws an intimate pub. Thames this fully illustrated portrait of the & Hudson volume challenges

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Summer Sunflowers to be decriminalised and because of some of the most valuable documents wanting in the strength and skill to work Summer Exhibition his figurative style of art, which was in the world of art, throwing light on with traditional materials. Highlighting not sufficiently ‘contemporary’ to be his complex character and his creative the lives and works of dozens of Showing local artists valued. Trips to New York and California, women sculptors from the 1880s to the process as seen through his own eyes. where he would live for many years present, many of whom have pushed 9-5 Mon-Fri, 9-3 Sat Here we get a first hand insight into his Gallery 2 offers a complete range of mouldings, and paint his iconic swimming pools, the boundaries of the genre far beyond original art plus contract picture framing for introduced him to new scenes, new thoughts and opinions, his close ties with their male counterparts, it includes hotels, pubs and restaurants. With a large selection of limited editions and unique gifts. loves and the fraught years of the AIDS his brother Theo, his sometimes troubled stellar names such as Louise Bourgeois, 72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock epidemic. Through it all his passion relationships with friends and fellow Niki de Saint Phalle, Barbara Hepworth, 01563 550 303 Gallery2Kilmarnock to create has been undiminished artists, his personal doubts and fears and Yayoi Kusama, Cornelia Parker and Rachel www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk by heartbreak, illness or loss. above all his passion for his art. Whiteread as well as lesser known artists.

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Working mainly with resin, Kaz Robertson designs and makes boldly colourful Avesha DeWolfe of Spiral Tide Pottery Inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian This stained glass panel by Carolyn jewellery in her own palette makes ocean-inspired wares which design, furniture-maker Jonathan Pang Barlow is one of several she made based of mixed pigments. Some encourage you to take a moment for favours clean, simple forms incorporating on the Robert Burns poem “Tam o’ pieces are reversible for an yourself, whether sitting down to a cup subtle, intricate detail. Contrasting Shanter” for the Globe Inn in Dumfries, added surprise, while others of coffee or enjoying a meal from hand- touches within the same piece include reputed to be the poet’s favourite have magnets set in them made tableware. She says her work is for different timbers or complementary pub. Stained glass panels can be used which allows bangles to stick ‘the lifelong beachcomber, the person elements such as metal or leather work. for illustration, abstract design or to together in sets or ring tops who brings shells and pretty rocks home www.jonathanpangfurniture.com reflect the images of nature beyond the to be swapped. or stops to smell the tide come in’. window. www.carolynbarlow.com www.kazrobertson.co.uk www.spiraltidepottery.com Hand-made for you & your home

Ange and Rob Sewell of Weft Blown in West Kilbride, also known as “Craft Town Scotland”, design and weave nature- inspired textiles using wools sourced from Molly Bullick uses natural mainly British mills and dyes for her shawls in small scale producers. either wool, linen, silk or Ange is this month’s wool and silk. She uses a featured maker for the labour-intensive method town’s Barony Centre. called ‘shibori’, a Japanese Pictured: Arran Twist technique for creating Autumn Hand-woven pattern in the material by Sweater compressing it on a pole. www.weftblown.com www.mollybullick.co.uk 18 | 14 August | Issue 126 14 August | Issue 126 | 19 Art & Travel Art & Travel

ungary’s capital is two cities landscape and portraiture produced Hungarian folk culture, while the snow- in one, facing each other during Hungary’s 19th century Romantic white interior in oriental style is topped on opposite banks of the period. There is also a series of special off with a gorgeous, stained glass skylight mighty Danube. On the exhibitions. Added bonus: An expansive soaring above the central Glass Hall. hilly west side, Buda was terrace with panoramic views of Pest and The collection of over 100,000 items Hthe ancient capital of the Kingdom of the Danube. www.mng.hu spans the history of objects from the Hungary built around the magnificent Middle Ages to contemporary design The Ludwig Museum, or LuMu, is the 13th century citadel where visitors and includes porcelain, furniture, glass, city’s main showcase for contemporary marvel at commanding views from the precious metal, figurines, fans, lace, 17th art. Established in 1989 (before the turreted Fisherman’s Bastion. century aristocratic dresses, carved regime change) by the German chocolate The views from here are over to objects, Oriental carpets and tapestries. magnate Peter Ludwig and his wife Pest on the east side of the river. Spread Many world famous makers are Irene, who amassed possibly the world’s out on a broad plain, it is the main represented, such as Meissen, Murano, largest private collection of late 20th commercial part of the city where the Minton, Thomas Webb and Limoges. century art, it is associated with ten or main landmarks are the stupendous www.imm.hu so museums all over Europe, including Parliament Building, Heroes’ Square Cologne, Vienna and St Petersburg. Its In the riverside Balna Warehouse, a and the broad, boulevard-like Andrassy home in the Palace of Arts, a modern curvaceous, glass-encased mall known Avenue. complex by the Danube, also houses the locally as “the Whale”, the city-run New Along with the district of Obuda Bela Bartok National Concert Hall and (Old Buda), site of the original Roman the Festival Theatre. Ludwig Museum settlement around 50AD, the three parts With over 500 pieces, were unified in 1873 to form Budapest. LuMu has the largest Reached by funicular from Adam Clark collection of contemporary Square (named after the Scottish art in Hungary, tracing the designer of the nearby Chain Bridge, history of the genre in the city’s iconic Danube crossing) the Eastern Europe in the last Hungarian National Gallery is housed quarter century through in the magnificent Royal Palace, also permanent displays and known as Buda Castle. temporary exhibitions. The beautifully displayed, www.ludwigmuseum.hu The Glass Hall in the Museum of Applied Arts 100,000-piece collection provides a comprehensive overview of the

history of fine art in Hungary, from late One the most impressive buildings Budapest Gallery, one of the largest One of the world’s finest national galleries in one of the finest buildings ever to medieval wooden sculptures and panel in a city full of them is the Museum galleries in the city, specialises in host one. A cutting edge contemporary art museum which took root even before paintings, through the late Renaissance of Applied Arts, a Secessionist-style contemporary art. and Baroque periods to Hungarian landmark and a work of art in itself. www.budapestgaleria.hu/uj See also regime change. A photography gallery dedicated to a famous – and fearless art after 1945. Most major European Established in 1872, making it the third Obuda – Budapest Gallery. art movements are also represented, such institution in Europe after Vienna Facing each other on Heroes’ Square are – cameraman. One of Europe’s longest established applied art museums in a including Classicism, Impressionism, and London, its green, ceramic-tiled two equally splendid buildings with very Fauvism and Art Nouveau. dome and rooftops soar above walls different exhibitions. fabulous, Secessionist-style building. A gallery dedicated to the pioneer of Op Art. The many highlights include some of covered with motifs and patterns You’ll find all this and more in Budapest. the best known examples of Hungarian from Moorish and Indian designs and 20 | 14 August | Issue 126 14 August | Issue 126 | 21 Black logo Art & Travel

Mucsarnok (Hall or Palace of Art) makes square is the Museum of Fine Arts, collection includes a 16th century bronze The Torrance Gallery up for its lack of a permanent collection Hungary’s largest art museum. Reopened statuette, Rearing Horse and Mounted The No-Festival Festival Exhibition of its own with a vibrant exhibition in 2018 after extensive renovations, Warrior, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. programme of contemporary Hungarian one of its highlights is the restored For the first time since 1957, Featuring and international art, although its Romanesque Hall, severely damaged in Hungarian art is shown alongside Catriona MacEachen & Martin Hill beautiful, neo-Classical columns might WWII and closed to the public for over contemporaneous European art, along with lots of our gallery favourites suggest otherwise. It boasts 2,000 square 70 years. thus showing Hungarian work in an and introducing some new names to metres of exhibition space, including The museum houses a large international context. (In 1950s, Soviet- the gallery... 25th July - 30th Aug the glass-roofed main gallery and two collection of European Old Masters, dominated Hungary, Socialist Realism project rooms. www.mucsarnok.hu including works by Raphael, Cranach, was officially deemed the exclusive style in Hungarian art.) www.mfab.hu Directly opposite and in contrast to its Goya, Velasquez, El Greco, Bruegel, contemporary neighbour across the Titian and many others. A large statuary

Mucsarnok (Hall or Palace of Art) The restored Romanesque Hall in the Museum of Fine Arts

We can’t be with you in person this year, please join us online.

www.torrancegallery.co.uk 36 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6JN 0131 556 6366

[email protected] Madeline Cline, Intermedia BA (Hons) 2020, Her Desires Are Proclaimed Mythic

Coming up for Obuda (Old Budapest) air It’s worth a tram ride out to this eastern part of the city, where Roman ruins, including the remains of an amphitheatre with an arena bigger than the Colosseum, are the site of the original settlement. You’ll also find a clutch of galleries and museums, including one devoted to a 298 Portobello High St world famous name in art. Portobello Spread over two floors in the Edinburgh Baroque Zichy Manor, a former count’s residence, the Vasarely Museum has EH15 2AS some 400 works by the Hungarian-born Lynda & Ron Wilson 07835 813689 father of op (optical) art, Victor Vasarely 31 July – 21 August (1906-97), whose dizzying kinetic reliefs velveteasel.co.uk in plexiglass continue to bamboozle [email protected] Vasarely Museum viewers. www.vasarely.hu

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Nearby the Budapest Gallery is a located in a former Baroque monastery FLAT CAT city-run, non-profit gallery presenting a and church, has a collection of GALLERY broad range of contemporary Hungarian Hungarian art from about 1880 to 1990. and cafe art, including works of an architectural Atmospherically displayed under vaulted nature, photography, applied arts and ceilings, it includes silverware, paintings, LINDA KINSMAN-BLAKE design, often by first-time exhibitors. sculpture, drawings and installations. 1 July – 31 August There is also an artist exchange There is also a quirky collection of New collection of paintings & ceramics. programme with numerous European historical artefacts. The vast former All work for sale online. cities. www.budapestgaleria.hu See church with its bare brick walls (thanks Gift shop and café/takeaway service. also New Budapest Gallery. to WWII Allied bombing) is now used as Mon-Sat 9.30-5, Sun 10-5 Around the corner is a real find. The a dramatic exhibition and concert space. Imre Varga Collection has over 130 www.kiscellimuzeum.hu works by the man considered by many to be Hungary’s foremost sculptor. On the way to the museum, which is stuffed Mai Mano House with examples of Varga’s prodigious output, you will pass his Those Waiting, Photography fans will want to check out a group of bronze figures holding two galleries in Art Nouveau buildings umbrellas. within a short walk of one another on Varga (1923-2019) was also opposite sides of the elegant Andrassy Hare in Summer Hare commissioned to produce some 300 Avenue. www.flatcatgallery.co.uk pieces now dotted around the world, In the beautiful Art Deco building 2 Market Place which was the residence and studio of Lauder Berwickshire TD2 6SR including a sculpture in Tel Aviv of the [email protected] Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg the court photographer after whom (who helped save thousands of it is named, the Mai Mano House Hungarian Jews from the gas chambers), showcases Hungarian and international a sculpture of the Hungarian composer photographic art. www.maimano.hu Bela Bartok in Brussels, a seven-metre Nearby the Robert Capa high Prometheus in Antwerp and three Contemporary Photography gilded panels in the Hungarian Chapel of Center was opened in 2013 on the our Lady in the Vatican. birthday centenary of the Budapest- www.budapestgaleria.hu//en/imre- born photographer (real name Endre varga-collection-information Friedmann) famous for his images from On the hill overlooking Obuda and five wars and the only photographer the Danube, the Kiscelli Museum, to take part in the D-Day landings. Re-opening Exhibition Imre Varga Collection The gallery hosts changing exhibitions, Featured artists: although curiously none by Capa himself. Martin Hill + Sigrid Shone www.capacenter.hu Other exhibitors include: Jean Martin RSW Helga Chart RSW RWS Derek Robertson Patricia Shone

www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 Robert Capa Contemporary Kiscelli Museum Photography Center

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WEEKLY ONLINE For a great overview of Budapest’s mother’s side.) EXHIBITIONS SERIES independent commercial galleries, The galleries which caught W Falk Miksa Bardoni THE take a stroll down our eye include: , which WHITEHOUSE utca (‘utca’, pronounced ‘ootsa’, is specialises in early 20th century, WWW.NOMADSTENT.CO.UK GALLERY Hungarian for street) behind the Central European-made furniture, magnificent Parliament building, art and decorative objects; KAREN STAMPER JACKIE HENDERSON where you’ll find a range of work Virag Judit Galeria, an auction Jack Hickey A SUMMER TO REMEMBER for sale from quality antiques to house which also stages several August 3-9 Q&A August 6 FRIDAY 10 JULY - SAT 5 SEPTEMBER 2020 contemporary fine art. (Bizarrely, at exhibitions a year of 19th and 20th Tricia Barna, Fiona Brown, Lizzie Farey, Jackie Henderson, one end of the street, which is named century paintings and ceramics; Robert Pereira-Hind, Morag Lloyds, Kevan McGinty, Kieselbach Galeria Fiona Millar, Anne Skinner, Karen Stamper. after a Hungarian politician, stands a and , which head-scratching, cigar-toting bronze is positively evangelical about Exclusive Online Collections by Susan Cairns & Dominique Cameron. Glass: Amanda Simmons & Debbie Lord. Sculpture by Lynn Muir. statue of Peter (“Columbo”) Falk and promoting Hungarian painting, Ceramic Sculpture by Pratima Kramer. a squat bronze dog eyeing each other. www.kieselbach.hu FIONA MILLAR Falk was of Hungarian descent on his

Ken Browne FIONA BROWN AMANDA SIMMONS TRICIA BARNA August 10-16 Q&A August 13 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR OUR NEW OPENING TIMES WWW.WHITEHOUSEGALLERY.CO.UK LIZZIE FAREY R U G S & I N T E R I O R S

WE BUY & SELL, CLEAN & REPAIR Bardoni N e w , o l d & a n t i q u e o r i e n t a l r u g s , c a r p e t s & k i l i m s Pining for monolithic, Communist- of Stalin, Lenin and Marx and gigantic, era sculpture? Then head out to waving comrades and memorials to Memento Park, where dozens of Soviet heroes. Ian Holman statues from the Communist years www.mementopark.hu August 17-23 Q&A August 20 have found their (hopefully) final See also PHOTO-SPREAD/Sculpture Early Morning Mist resting place. They include likenesses Parks, pages 30-31. Tibetan columns 88 x 41cm

Bramble Hedge Bramble HELEN BRUCE SUSIE HUNT Arum Lilly

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Culinary art Dating from 1894, the recently renamed CANALSCAPES : On the handsome Andrassy New York Cafe is sumptuously designed Avenue the Book Cafe is in an eclectic Renaissance/Baroque- HOLLAND SCOTLAND VENEZIA a wholly inadequate name style melange of marble, bronze, silk John Lowrie Morrison OBE for one of Budapest’s most and velvet, making it hard to dispute its At The Archway Gallery from 8 August opulent settings for a description as ‘the most beautiful cafe in Normal opening hours: Fri & Sun 11-4pm refreshment or light bite. It the world’. www.newyorkcafe.hu Eveninglight, Cannaregio Canal, Venice Canal, Cannaregio Eveninglight, occupies the upper floor of an Book Cafe If Bauhaus is your style, head for Erzsebet WONDERFUL HAND CRAFTED 1880s Art Nouveau building INTERIORS AT THE MILL STUDIO Square in the heart of the business which was opened as a casino district, where you will find theTerminal A unique collection inspired by the and later transformed into a materials we use and the way in which we Restaurant and Bar, a beautifully enjoy uniting these materials together. luxury department store. Today restored building which was previously a Inspired soft furnishings, hand-made wooden it is a book emporium. The cafe bus terminal. tables and benches, art and one-off exclusive is in the former Lotz Hall, the www.terminalrestaurant.hu designs made from amazing materials. casino ballroom which then All government safety measures now Opened in 1858, Cafe Gerbeaud is in place for your protection. became the store’s auction Stormy Skies, The Bulb Fields, Holland Bulb Fields, The Skies, Stormy Sunset Canal Dunardry Crinan Lock room selling furniture, ceramics, the finest example of cafe culture from the glory days of the Austro-Hungarian The Archway Gallery antiques and contemporary art of the time. Now you can sit empire. You’ll gain weight just looking at | 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS 01546 606894 under chandeliers and marvel the cake display. www.thearchway.co.uk at the magnificent frescoes. New York Cafe www.gerbeaud.hu

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You can get your exercise and art fix at the same time with a stroll 5 around some of Europe’s best sculpture parks.

1. Marta Pan, Floating sculpture, Otterlo, 1960-1961, Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands 2. Marc Quinn, Love Bomb, 2006, Jupiter Artland, Scotland 3. Werner Reiterer, Gesture, 2003-04, Austrian Sculpture Park 4. Jeff Saward, The Labyrinth, Chianti Sculpture Park, Tuscany, Italy 5. Memento Park, Budapest 6. Erwin Wurm, Misconceivable, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp 7. Jaume Plensa, Anna, Pilane Heritage Museum, Sweden 8. Sophie Ryder, Sitting, 2007, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 9. Vigeland Sculpture Park, Norway 10. Dennis Oppenheim, Chair-Pool, Europos Parkas, Lithuania

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