Photograph by Jesko Malkolm Johnsson-Zahn Here are some seductive curves to welcome you to Georgia. Usually this kind of statement architecture is reserved for city centre galleries but this is the Sarpi border customs checkpoint through which visitors from Turkey travel to Georgia. Located at the shore of the Black Sea the building was designed by Berlin architects, J. Mayer H and completed at the end of 2011. With cantilevered
Paisley born singer songwriter Gerry Rafferty is to be remembered at two concerts on 22 and 23 January as part of this year’s Celtic Connections in Glasgow. The concerts have been curated by Rafferty’s daughter Martha and Rab Noakes and will feature performances by, among others, The Proclaimers, Barbara Dickson, Ron Sexsmith and James Vincent McMorrow. Irish singer McMorrow, who sings some of his songs in a voice so high
Eve Arnold and Eva Zeisel had more than a name in common. Pioneering achievements by both artists spanned much of the 20th century and both women achieved firsts in their respective fields. Eve Arnold, who died aged 99 on the 4 of January 2012, was one of the first female photographers to join the Magnum photographic agency in 1957. Eva Zeisel, ceramics designer, who died on 30 December 2011 aged
Apologies for the recent radio silence – we’ve been having some tricky construction work done here at Avocado Sweet and it’s taken a bit longer than we expected. Hope you didn’t think we’d eaten and drunk ourselves into actual comas over the holidays! Should be all sorted soon though and we’ll be right back to daily posting.