ART & EXHIBITIONS LIST
Mon-Sat 10am—5pm.
0 RIAS l5 Rutland Square. Mon—Fri 9.3(lam—5pm.
Glasgow Institute at Architects Awards 1987 Until Fri 2 Oct.
A Selection ot Drawings by Stephen Wiltshire Mon 12—Fri 23 Oct. An exhibition of architectural drawings by a young boy who is mentally handicapped. Stephen has recently been included in a BBC OED programme which highlighted his remarkable talent for memorising the exact details of a building.
0 ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Inverleith House. Mon—Sat 10am-5pm: Sun
11am—5pm.
A Fascination For Fungi t1 ntil Tue 18 ()ct. Fungi comes in all shapes and sizes as this exhibition shows. 'l'oadstools by Beatrix Potter and a watercolour which dates a fungus to 1788 are just part ofthis selection
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0 ROYAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND (‘hambers Street. 225 7534.
i Mon—Sat 10am—5pm. Sun 2—5pm.
O ROYAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Queen Street. 556 8921. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm; Sun 2—5pm.
Scotland's antiquities share premises with the Portrait (iallerv. See
x... A Private View, Robert Shaw, . Printmakers’ Workshop, Edinburgh Robert Shaw‘s prints are tilled with incident, each telling a story about its i outsize, almond-eyed characters who are harmless and ordinary, going on grotesque. The territory is almost that ol a thriller, set in lairgrounds and calés where a twilight subculture menaces prolessionally under the innocent patina ol the everyday. The characters, all largerthan lile, are easily identitied, dressed in squashed pork pie hats pulled low over what is evidently a much-broken nose, looking like one of Al Capone’s henchmen, but it is well-evoked menace all the same. His icecream salesman is particularly disquieting and with his painted
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O ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound. 225 6671 . Mon—Sat 10am—7pm; Sun 10am—5pm. Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition Until Sat 17 Oct. This year's show features six specially invited installations (sponsored by the Scottish Arts ('ouncil) including work by the inimitable (ieorge Wyllie. The room that during the Festival held Richard Wilson's sump oil trompe I‘oeiI. 20:50. now has a Kon Tiki style raft in a sea ofsalt — a Scottish sculpture by Reinhardt Behrens.
Scottish Society at Women Artists Until Sat 17 Oct. This is the (13rd annual exhibition. [inter from the side door.
0 ST JOHN'S CHURCH Princes Street. Phone Leah Marchbank 557 1018 between Illam and (ipm for details. Homelessness Sat 3 ()ct. 1—5pm. During International Year ofSheIter for the Homeless. this exhibition shows services available and what is happening about the problem now.
0 THE SCOTTISH ARTISTS SHOPS Howard Street. 556 (i337. Mon—Sat 10am—4pm. Sun 2-4pm.
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While it is the men who threaten, the women are no innocents, lorthere is not so much as a whilt ot naively here. It the evil-looking man in Posing the Question is proposing marriage to the woman, she knows the score exactly and is going to accept him nonetheless.
Its a lormula which doesn't always work and the German Expressionists Tea Party or the Transvestite Hornplayer seem all too obvious, but at his best Shaw is an evocative and moody stylist. (Sally Kinnes)
PRINT/MAKERS WORKSHOP
23 UNION STREET (OPP. PLAYHOUSE THEATRE) EDINBURGH OPEN lO-5.30pm MONDAY TO SATURDAY TEL: 031 557 2479
A PRIVATE VIEW ROBERT SHAW Etchings & Aquatints 26 September — 24 October
23 Union Street, Edinburgh Tel: 031 557 2479 r Gallery: Mon to Sat 10am—5.30pm Admission Free
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NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND
The following lectures and film programmes will take place on Thursday Evenings at 7.30pm in the Museum Lecture Theatre (Lothian Street) 8 October Film: La 'I‘raviata Directed by Franco Zeffirelli 15 October A Traveller's Life Iiric Newby reads from a selection of his books 22 October Film: King Lear in Russian Directed by (irigori Kozintsev 29 October Lecture: The Cost of Whaling Jeremy (‘herfas. Naturalist and Broadcaster
AFRICAN ART
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Mr. L.G.Mitohell 661—4481 :vSévSvfiS [SEAL/{s 543
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