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Derek McArthur
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arts writer / engagement editor for The Herald
📧: derek.mcarthur@newsquest.co.uk
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Core. Festival brings the noise to Glasgow for its third year
Core. Festival brings the noise to Glasgow for its third year
Scotland’s heavy indoor festival that lauds everything loud and distorted sets up camp in Glasgow’s Woodside Halls, with assistance from venue…
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September 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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'It is a wonderful opportunity for the condemnation class. Politicians, the police, and the media love to fan the flames of these distractions in cheap, cynical ploys to be seen as proactive and righteous'

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July 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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'Coincidentally, or not, this is all occurring after Kneecap's performance at Coachella, where overt anti-Israel messages were displayed throughout and the group made several statements in support of Palestine' 👇

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May 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Who would have guessed that First Minister John Swinney would have an opinion on this year's TRNSMT festival line-up – let alone demand that one of its acts be dropped for being 'beyond the pale'?"

@derekmcarthur.bsky.social on politicians and Kneecap 👇

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May 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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'It's really exciting to be joining this historic title as it steps up its commitment to arts and culture'

Meet Brian Ferguson, The Herald's new Arts Correspondent.

FIND OUT MORE 👇

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April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My weekly education newsletter is currently the most-read article on the @heraldscotland.bsky.social website:

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Spare a thought for the young people caught up in anti-trans storm
As I’m sure everyone and their dog knows by now, yesterday the Supreme Court presented its judgement on the definition of a woman under the…
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April 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Why the UK version of Saturday Night Live is doomed to fail

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The UK version of Saturday Night Live will only end in one way: failure
What better way to celebrate a 50th anniversary than to adapt the format to British television, and likely end up being laughed at, not with?
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April 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Even beacons like New York City and its arts scenes have been largely defanged and rendered supplementary to what is going on artistically @derekmcarthur.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The critic is in a crisis, and it’s not just a Scottish theatre problem
Legendary literary critic Harold Bloom once said, “In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to…
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April 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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'How well do we know the city landscape surrounding us, the urban jungles we have created as a reflection of ourselves?'

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March 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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'Why I paid money to watch shots of buildings and streets for 90 minutes'

Gazing at the displaced, distant city with Chantal Akerman @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social

Column for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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Why I paid money to watch shots of buildings and streets for 90 minutes
As part of Glasgow Film Theatre’s CineMasters season, the focus turns to Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who throughout the 1970s until her…
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March 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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'As much joy and wonder as there is in physical formats, record collecting, record shops, and everything else in between, perhaps it is a world we have simply left behind...'

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March 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Five stars for a new film set in Scotland

READ THE REVIEW: www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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March 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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On Falling, the directorial full-length debut from Laura Carreira, is a subtle yet heavy-punching portrait of the precarious life of work. Review for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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A subtle yet heavy-punching portrait of the precarious life of work
On Falling, seeing its Scottish premiere at this year's Glasgow Film Festival, opens with a group of workers descending a corridor, punching in…
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March 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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On reading Yukio Mishima, the writer who disembowelled himself

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Why it is worth reading the Japanese writer who disembowelled himself
In 1970, Yukio Mishima, author and ultranationalist, tied up the commandant of a Tokyo military base and stepped onto the balcony. He read his…
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February 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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'Yes, you can. And yes, you should. Separate it all from the imperfect hands of its creator. Take from flawed humanity the creation from whence it came.'

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February 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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'There are, of course, those who would deny that what Trump is proposing is what it is - an overt call for ethnic cleansing'

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February 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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EXCL: Pro-Palestine activists at Glasgow Uni
say the university is cracking down on "free speech".

“Escalation is our only option”, one student told
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'We're being silenced': pro-Palestine student activists fear for freedom of speech
University of Glasgow management have been accused of attempting to “silence” students involved in pro-Palestine activism at the institution’s…
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February 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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thread for when last fm tells me I've listened to a song over 100 times
February 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Four Seasons: Utopiano
四季・ユートピアノ
Dir. Shoichiro Sasaki, 1980
February 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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'What if your passion in life made it onto the big screen and you noticed everything it got wrong?'

Arts columnist @derekmcarthur.bsky.social on the backlash to Academy Award frontrunner The Brutalist

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February 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I asked the market-wrecking DeepSeek AI to write an opinion column for me. So how did it do?

Column for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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I asked the market-wrecking AI to write an opinion column for me. So how did it do?
The Chinese AI model DeepSeek has shaken the tech world, but will it shake a humble opinion columnist?
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January 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This film veteran was stunned when he asked AI to give him ideas

‘Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?’ asked Paul Schrader

This week's column for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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This film veteran was stunned when he asked AI to give him ideas
‘Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?’ asked film icon Paul Schrader
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January 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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'Nosferatu comes off more like a technical exercise than a film with a concrete artistic statement behind it'

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January 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A tribute to David Lynch, who has died at the age of 78, written by @derekmcarthur.bsky.social in August when the legendary director confirmed he would never step foot on a set again

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January 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Why is dialogue so obvious in Netflix films? Because no one is actually watching to know what's happening otherwise

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Netflix and the films no one is actually watching
Why is dialogue so obvious in Netflix films? Because no one is actually watching to know what's happening otherwise.
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January 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM