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Alexander McCall Smith: Photography has its place, but painted portraits provide a more evocative depiction of who we are scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Submitting. Under Scotland’s current route map for easing restrictions, audiences of up to 400 are envisaged at indoor events by the end of June. Fringe venues have been told to plan ahead on the basis of two metre social distancing still being place in Scotland later in the summer, despite warnings it will make their plans financially unviable. However a Scottish Government review of proposed social distancing and capacity guidelines for live events later in the summer is expected to be carried out over the next few weeks. Fringe Society deputy chief executive Lyndsey Jackson said that, although the festival was likely to be smaller in scale than normal, a mix of outdoor public spaces and large indoor venues were likely to host shows. ....
Published: The hit TV show Outlander follows its characters from the battlefields of the Second World War to the Jacobite risings of the 18th-century and colonial North Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Based on a series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, the drama uses a time-slip narrative – in which its protagonist Claire (played by Caitriona Balfe) moves initially between the 1940s and the 1740s – to play fast and loose with history. But far from inaccurate, the show is deeply interested in the ways we experience and imagine the past. Merging elements of fact and fantasy, it explores many ‘what ifs’ of Scottish history by touching on key events and featuring recognisable historical figures. ....
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is to reopen on Friday with a new Ken Currie work depicting forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black. Arriving at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) on a long-term loan directly from the artist, the large portrait is titled Unknown Man and shows Professor Black in surgical robes standing behind the covered remains of a body. The pair met during a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme on the relationship between art and anatomy. Currie then visited the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, where Professor Black then was director, and was so moved by her work he asked her to sit for a portrait. ....
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