15 April 2010
Forecourt Fundraising Art Show at RGC
Pupils on the Charities Committee at Robert Gordon’s College have organised an Art Show this weekend, in aid of The ARCHIE Foundation.  The show, entitled ‘Forecourt and Friends’ will feature the work of local artists who are members of Forecourt, as well as paintings by several prominent local [...]

There are two art programmes on the BBC tonight.
Firstly, at 5.10pm on BBC1  there is Painted With Words a drama based on Van Gogh’s letters to his are dealer brother Theo.  “Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, [...]

PETERCULTER HERITAGE HALL – Map
Opening Night: Friday 2nd April
Cheese & Wine Open Evening – 7pm-9pm (Free Admission)
The Exhibition will then be open for the public during the month of April
Opening Hours
Fridays: 12pm- 6pm Daily
Saturdays & Sundays: 11am- 6pm Daily (with Teas & Homebaking from 2pm-4pm)
Note one exception -  Saturday 17th (which will be open 1pm-6pm)

The Forecourt [...]

Friday is the last day to register your views on the disastrous proposal from Ian Wood to level UTG and essentially concrete over it, ripping out all the trees.
If you don’t act now what will you tell the next generation?  They won’t see the trees for the Wood.
Here are some things you can do today.
It’s [...]

As the Herald announced today:
“It will be Scotland’s biggest display of the works of its most important painters – but the search goes on to find the lost Glasgow Boys.

“Curators of one of the most important art exhibitions ever staged in Glasgow have confirmed there will be 140 paintings at this year’s landmark exhibition [...]

Peacock Printmakers plans for a new arts centre in Union Terrace Gardens were approved by planning committee and had secured funding.
Now Sir Iain Wood’s grandiose scheme to ‘transform’ the Gardens have stalled, and may even scupper those plans.
A new site has been set up allowing Aberdeen residents to compare the two proposals:  www.comparethesquare.com
Have a look [...]