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FREE Peter Pretsell: The Beautiful the Absurd the Outlandish the Contradictory. Until Sat 25 Oct. Four decades of Pretsell‘s work.
I EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue—Sat 10am—6pm.
FREE Helen Snell: Strange Harvest Until Sat 25 Oct. 3D constructions based on subversions of commercial packaging.
FREE Peter Pretsell: A Life in Print Until Sat 25 Oct. Screenprints and paintings created over a 40-year period.
I FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street. 225 2383. Mon—Sat l lam—6pm; Sun noon—5pm. FREE Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller .0000 Until Sun 28 Sep. Six immersive installation works combine image. video. sound and music. Go early, and allow yourself at least an hour.
I INGLEBY GALLERY
15 Calton Road, 556 4441. 10am—5pm. FREE Billboard for Edinburgh: Mark Wallinger .00 Until Fri 31 Oct. The punchy sentence ‘MARK WALLINGER IS INNOCENT'. shouted out from the well-placed Ingleby billboard, is intriguing, but disappointing.
FREE Kay Rosen: Huen 0000 Until Sat 27 Sep. Playful text pictures. FREE Susan Collis 0000 Until Wed 24 Sep. Rawl plugs and paint spatters turn out to be precious stones.
I NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
75 Belford Road. 624 6200. 10am—5pm. hacey Emin: 20 Years 00.
Until Sun 9 Nov. lOam—6pm. £6 (£4). Work dating from 1993, including embroidered textiles. paintings. drawings. early unpublished prints. installations, photographs and sculptures. I NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND
The Mound. 624 6200. Mon—Wed & Fri—Sun 10am—5pm; Thu 10am—7pm. FREE Kaleidoscope: Works on Paper Recently Acquired for Scotland Until Sun 21 Sep. Including a sketch of the Holy Family by the 18th century Venetian painter Tiepolo. Impressionism and Scotland Until Sun 12 Oct. £8 (£6). Scottish impressionism from the late-19th and earl '-20th centuries.
FR E Footlights Until Sun 16 Nov. Get closer to the smell of the grease paint with a collection of artists who have chosen to record events and gerformances.
REE New Acquisition Until Sun 30 Nov. Extraordinary work by lnvemess- born Alexander Munro, one of Scotland’s most talented sculptors, with close ties to the early pre-Raphaelites.
I NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND
Chambers Street, 247 4422. 10am—5pm. FREE Print on Film: From this Place Words Fly Sat 20 Sep—Sun 7 Dec. Scotland‘s printing industry explored by artists Kenny Munro and Edward O‘Donnelly.
I NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
1 Queen Street. 624 6200. Mon—Wed & Fri—Sun 10am-5pm; Thu 10am—7pm. FREE Heroes Until Sun 7 Dec. A critical re-examination of what we mean by the term ‘Victorian values‘.
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1013-2008 Until Sun 21 Sep. £8 (£6). Photographs of some of the weightiest names and brightest stars to have graced the pages of Vanity Fair.
FREE John Muir Wood and the Origins of Landscape Photography in Scotland Until Sun 26 Oct. Scotland's first systematic landscape photographer. John Muir Wood travelled by steamer documenting the country. as shown in these photographs taken during 1840—1860. FREE Lady Charlotte Campbell 1775-1061 by Johann Wilhelm Tischbeln Wed 24 Sep. 12.45pm. Susanna Kerr discusses this portrait of celebrated beauty Lady Charlotte Campbell, daughter of the Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll.
I THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse. 556 5100. 9.30am-6pm (last admission 5pm). The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Renaissance
0000 Until Sun 26 Oct. £5 (£3—£4.50;
under 5s free; family £13). Works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. Raphael and Tintoretto. Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Costa and Titian.
I ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Inverleith Row, 552 7171. Daily 10am—3.30pm.
FREE Close Sat 27 Sep—Sun 1 1 Jan. 10am—5pm. A photographic documentation of Scottish heritage by Allan Pollok-Morris.
I ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN (INVERLEITH HOUSE) lnverleith Row, 248 2983. Tue—Sun lOam—5.30pm. FREE Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures .00 Until Sun 12 Oct. Retrospective giving an (incomplete) idea ofjust how influential the great British pop artist has been. His critiques of the way mass media communicates politics might now seem commonplace. but this is a good reminder ofjust who pioneered those techniques in the first lace.
REE Rosita McKenzie with Camilla Adams: No Voices III/Horticulture Behind the Scenes Until Sun 12 Oct. Photographs by Rosita McKenzie. an Edinburgh-based blind
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I ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound. 225 6671. Mon-Sat 10am—5pm; Sun noon—5pm.
FREE Frank Pottinger RSA Until Mon 29 Sep. lOam—Spm. Solo exhibition of prints and small sculptures.
FREE Research: RSA Residencies in Focus Until Sun 21 Sep. The work of participants who have completed RSA opportunities in 2007. Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
FREE New Academicians Fri 26 Sep—Sun 26 Oct. Paintings. prints and sculpture from Delia Baillie, Michael Agnew and James Castle.
I STILLS
23 Cockburn Street. 622 6200.
1 1am—6pm.
FREE Martha Rosler Until Sun 9 Nov. Stills gallery is transformed into an open reference library with an array of over 7,700 books from the personal collection of the prolific artist. writer and political agitator. Martha Rosler. Curious readers can delve into the volumes.
I TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge. 650 2210. Tue—Sat 10am—5pm.
FREE Andrew Grassie .00
Until Sat 27 Sep. Deceptive photo-realist paintings of modernist exhibitions, exploring the derivative nature of contemporary art. May amuse theorists but alienate the casual viewer.
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I DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN University of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, 01382 345330. Mon—Fri 9.30am—5.30pm; Sat 9.30am—4.30pm. FREE Dundee Masters Show 2008 Thu 18 Sep. 1 lam—5pm. Postgraduate students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
I DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate. 01382 909900. Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10.30am—5.30pm; Thu 10.30am—8.30pm; Sun noon—5.30 m. FRE Kill Your Timid Notion: Exhibition Sat 20 Sep—Thu 9 Oct. The Kill Your Timid Notion exhibition presents work by Norwegian artist Kjell Bjorgeengen and painter Paul Shartis. Both artists will fill the huge gallery space with film. light and sound. See preview, age 94. FR E Sister Corita Power Up Until Tue 4 Nov. An exhibition of the prints of Sister Corita Kent. a Catholic nun who was one of the most innovative pop artists of the 1960s. FREE Dundee Masters Show 2008 Thu 18 Sep. 1 lam—5pm. Postgraduate students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design present their work.
I TRAVERSE THEATRE Cambridge Street, 228 1404. Mon—Sat lOam—midnight; Sun 6pm—midnight. FREE Rosita McKenzie 8. Camilla Adam: Backstage Until Sat 25 Oct. A selection of photographs taken by blind artist Rosita McKenzie of the Traverse's
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I GENERATOR PROJECTS 25—26 Mid Wynd. Mid Wynd industrial Estate. 01382 225982. Thu—Sun noon—5pm.
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