Coffee-Table Notes

Edinburgh looks different with your eyes closed. So it goes in Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh), Paris-born artist Myriam Lefkowitz’s guided tour with a difference that forms part of Talbot Rice’s wider inquiry into cognition in the gallery’s accompanying exhibition, The Extended Mind. Senses are shaken in different ways in Night Walk for Edinburgh, Canadian duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s gothic noir thriller that leads its prey down some of the city centre’s rarely explored back alleys, where they become an accessory and willing pawn in someone else’s game.  The fact that these two very different walks are running concurrently speaks volumes about the power of the imagination to change one’s inner landscape as much as the outer one that exists just beyond your front door. In Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh) (****) , audience members are taken by the hand and led individually through a familiar everyday landscape made new by the fact that they have their eyes shut through t

V&A Dundee looks set to come alive this month as it hosts the latest edition of a two-day ‘festival of art historical research’. RES|FEST x Dundee is a quick-fire compendium of talks, performances and participatory events that aims to put the audience at the centre of the gallery experience, and have them experience as much art as possible in an engaging environment. Speakers from the visual art world include artists Mick Peter and Dalziel + Scullion, who will each present bite-size ten-minute provocations alongside ones from representatives of V&A Dundee, Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Courtauld Institute of Art. The latter organisation has presented previous iterations of RES|FEST in London and Belfast. Music is provided by Cat Hepburn and Nadine Jassat, a radical reimagining of the Courtauld’s collection comes in Queering the Cannon, an installation by drag artist Rujazzle, and a DJ set by Sarra Wild will follow. There will also be a tour of V&A Dundee’s curre

Terry O’Neill – Photographer Born July 30, 1938; died November 17, 2019 Terry O’Neill, who has did aged 81 following a battle with prostate cancer, was a photographer whose work possessed a verve and a swagger that helped define the image of those he came of age with in the swinging sixties. Within a couple of weeks of turning professional, O’Neill had snapped the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in all their youthful pomp and about to take the world by storm, taking pop stardom out of the teen magazines and into the Sunday supplements. Like them, O’Neill never looked back. He would go on to move with celebrity circles in the more nominally grown-up worlds of showbusiness and film, capturing his subjects at their most stylishly glamorous, making them even more iconic. Brigitte Bardot was pictured smoking a cheroot; Marianne Faithfull in lingerie; Raquel Welch in a bikini on a cross; Audrey Hepburn with a white dove on her shoulder; Frank Sinatra and his entourage striding ac