http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-entsScottish Arts News | Herald ScotlandenCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservedSat, 26 May 2012 08:45:03 PDTCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservednoScottish Arts News | Herald Scotlandhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/thomas-heatherwick-on-london-buses-hairy-buildings-and-a-180ft-tall-kerplunk.1337997871http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/thomas-heatherwick-on-london-buses-hairy-buildings-and-a-180ft-tall-kerplunk.1337997871Thomas Heatherwick is a designer.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/unchained-melody.17671018http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/unchained-melody.17671018For someone who appreciates the sound of silence so much she put 11 minutes and 11 seconds of it on the last track of her new album, singer-songwriter Melody Gardot doesn't half like to talk.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/silence-is-deafening-as-cuts-to-arts-budgets-fail-to-inspire-indignation.17687454http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/silence-is-deafening-as-cuts-to-arts-budgets-fail-to-inspire-indignation.17687454Which of us, over recent weeks, has not warmed to the stance of plucky little Greece, hurling the demands for austerity back in the face of the big boys of Europe and refusing to accept that they cannot object to cuts across the board and keep the euro?http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/goks-kitchen-nightmare.17667479http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/goks-kitchen-nightmare.17667479Are you still serving your food on plates?http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/niche-work-how-the-sso-found-a-daylight-audience.17600541http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/niche-work-how-the-sso-found-a-daylight-audience.17600541Last week I reviewed a BBC SSO concert in the series entitled Afternoon Performance, where concerts are recorded for broadcast on Radio 3.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/ridley-scott-life-on-planet-hollywood.17636800http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/ridley-scott-life-on-planet-hollywood.17636800Every few years there is a rumble in the Hollywood jungle, a King Kong-style parting of the branches followed by the emergence of one of the biggest beasts in film – Ridley Scott, or Sir Ridley as this South Shields lad prefers not to be called.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/hirst-and-last.1337911447http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/hirst-and-last.1337911447In the end almost all of Damien Hirst's art deals with endings.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/arts-news.17687054http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/arts-news.17687054Curtain up on summer festivalhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/gary-numan-o2-abc-glasgow.17686990http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/gary-numan-o2-abc-glasgow.17686990There is no doubting Gary Numan's pop legacy.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/john-peels-shed-perth-theatre.17687022http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/john-peels-shed-perth-theatre.17687022I was much tickled to be told that John Osborne played his Fringe hit show to its largest audience ever in Perth on Wednesday evening.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/saint-etienne-oran-mor-glasgow.17687231http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/saint-etienne-oran-mor-glasgow.17687231An evening in the packed basement of a former church on the hottest night of the year so far?http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/come-been-and-gone-macrobert-stirling.17687221http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/come-been-and-gone-macrobert-stirling.17687221"I sing with impertinence, shading impermanent chords, with my words -" And oh by jingo how Bowie's words resonate when – as is not always the case – Michael Clark dances the Intermission solo in the final section of come, been, gone.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/taking-a-walk-on-the-wes-side-of-life.17674543http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/taking-a-walk-on-the-wes-side-of-life.17674543Moonrise Kingdom (12A)http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/action-packed-war-tale-keeps-you-occupied.17674548http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/action-packed-war-tale-keeps-you-occupied.17674548Free Men (12A)http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/brecker-senior-leads-homage-to-brother-michael.17604966http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/brecker-senior-leads-homage-to-brother-michael.17604966Randy Brecker can pinpoint the exact moment when he realised that his younger brother, Michael, was a massive saxophone talent.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/fairytale-ending-comes-true-as-jack-the-lad-turns-into-a-proper-prince-charming.17674556http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/fairytale-ending-comes-true-as-jack-the-lad-turns-into-a-proper-prince-charming.17674556SAM Claflin thought he might just get away with it.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/martin-taylor-martin-simpson-perth-theatre.17674590http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/martin-taylor-martin-simpson-perth-theatre.17674590Martin Simpson caught a bit of the sun in Martin Taylor's Perthshire garden before they drove up to the Fair City for this Perth Festival concert.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/wes-returns-to-pitch-his-tent-around-family.17657526http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/wes-returns-to-pitch-his-tent-around-family.17657526Wes Anderson is being mobbed.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/is-mib-franchise-next-up-for-galactic-serial-killer.17674541http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/film/is-mib-franchise-next-up-for-galactic-serial-killer.17674541Men in Black 3 (3D) (PG)http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/one-day-in-spring-oran-mor-glasgow.17660103http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/one-day-in-spring-oran-mor-glasgow.17660103This week the curtain comes down on the Play, Pie, Pint/National Theatre of Scotland mini season of work looking at the Arab World.http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/atlantic.17600509http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/atlantic.17600509What is it with bands connected to Warner/Atlantic subsidiary label Fueled By Ramen and their obsession with inappropriately placed punctuation marks?nonadult