On Newsnight Review:
The Age of Titian
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It's a beautifully constructed show.
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The National Galleries of Scotland always like a big name visitor for the summer.
Last year it was Monet, this year we get not only the superstar of the Venetian Renaissance Titian, but a stellar supporting cast. It represents the explosion of modernity in Venice in the 16th century, but also seeks to tell another historical story.
All the paintings are, or once were, in Scottish collections, something The Sunday Times critic thought the average art lover would find and I quote " of purely parochial interest".
The Age of Titian continues at the Royal Scottish Academy building until 5 December.
When the Bulbul Stopped Singing
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...the production is wonderful, very simple but very effective.
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At the Book Festival in Edinburgh in 2002, the Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadeh read from his first-hand account of the Israeli army's month long occupation of the West Bank town of Ramallah, earlier that same year.
In the audience was the mother-in-law of playwright David Greig, who was so affected by the experience she arranged for the two men to meet.
Greig's stage adaptation of the book - When the Bulbul Stopped Singing - which opened at the Traverse Theatre this week is the result of their collaboration.
When the Bulbul Stopped Singing is at the Traverse Theatre until 29 August and you can hear David Greig and Raja Shehadeh talking about their collaboration at the Book Festival on 24 August.
Tamburlaine Must Die
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She is a very talented writer, but she bit off more than she can chew here.
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Scottish writer Louise Welsh scored an instant hit with her first novel The Cutting Room, a thriller which sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and been translated into sixteen languages. It was a dark story of depravity and casual violence lurking behind the respectable facade of an affluent area of Glasgow, an atmosphere she evoked brilliantly.
For her second book she's switched settings, to the violent paranoid and no less depraved milieu of sixteenth century London, adopting the voice of playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Tamburlaine Must Die is out now and Louise Welsh will be discussing it at the Book Festival on 20 August.
Roundup
Gary Le Strange is appearing at Pod Deco
Neutrino are at the Gilded Balloon
Caroline O'Connor is in Bombshells at the Assembly Rooms
On the panel were:
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