A major exhibition of films and photographs by Willie Doherty, one of the most significant artists of our times. Rooted in the political and geographical landscape of his native Northern Ireland, Doherty's work expands out of this context to address universal themes of individual and collective subjectivity and responsibility, creating a new framework within which to think about who we are and how we live.

This exhibition brings together a selection of new and existing films and photographs, and includes a new film, Buried, made specially for the exhibition. The new film was made and is shown in the context of Ghost Story, f...

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The Fruitmarket Gallery’s major spring exhibition is a group show which presents a selection of northern European sculpture, photography, installation and film in the context of the western and its role in the creation of the myth of the American West.

Curated by art historian, lecturer, writer and the editor of Art Monthly Patricia Bickers, the exhibition has its origins in her long-standing fascination for westerns takes its title from the final scene of the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:‘Sir, this is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’. Arguing that the western is a key comp...

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