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■ LEITH LIBRARY 28–30 Ferry Road, 529 5517. Mon–Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm. FREE Auld Artistic Allies Until Mon 29 Aug. A Scotsman’s photographs of France and a Frenchman’s watercolours of Scotland. Fringe. ■ MANSFIELD TRAQUAIR 15 Mansfield Place, 555 8475. Sun–Fri 11am–1pm. FREE Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals Until Mon 29 Aug. Arts and crafts mural scheme in ‘Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel’. Fringe.
■ MARCHMONT GALLERY 56 Warrender Park Rd, 228 8228. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Cat Outram & Kelly Stewart Until Sat 27 Aug. Prints and etchings of local scenes and animals, by two Edinburgh-based artists.
■ MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOKSHOP 3a & 4a Haddington Place, Leith Walk, 556 5897. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Mothers and Daughters Until Sat 20 Aug. An exhibition by four Fife women, all related, all artists, working in etchings, oils, collage and photography. Fringe. FREE Text and Image Tue 23 Aug–Sat 3 Sep. Prints, paintings and drawings from Angela Lemaire. Fringe.
■ MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD 42 High Street, 529 4142. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Fringe Schools Poster Competition Until Wed 31 Aug. Shortlisted designs and 15-year-old Ailsa Purdie’s winning entry. Fringe.
■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND: MAP LIBRARY 33 Salisbury Place, Causewayside, 623 3918. FREE Housing Paper Worlds Until Fri 26 Aug, Mon–Fri 9.30am–5pm (Wed from 10am); Sat 9.30am–1pm. Architecture students from the University of Dundee display designs for a new Cartographic Institute. ■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Passion for Glass Until Sun 11 Sep. Modern British and Irish glassworks. Fringe.
■ THE NOMADS TENT 21 St Leonard’s Lane, 662 1612. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–4pm. FREE An Ancient Thread: 7,000 Years of Anatolian Kilims Until Sun 4 Sep. Forty miniature Anatolian kilims (textile floor coverings), full of ancient symbolism. Fringe.
■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Depot, peacockvisualarts.com FREE Katri Walker: North West ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep, Tue–Sat noon–6pm. Installation curated by Aberdeen’s Peacock Visual Arts, comprising video art from Walker exploring Scotland’s ties with Wild West culture. EAF.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE European Masterprints 1890–1980 Until Sat 24 Sep. Lithographs, etchings and silkscreen prints from artists including Picasso, Miro and Toulouse-Lautrec. EAF.
✽✽ FREE John Byrne RSA Until Mon 5 Sep. New works by
idiosyncratic artist and playwright John Byrne. EAF. FREE Life Forms Until Mon 5 Sep. New figurative sculpture.
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10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. FREE In Japan: Highlights of Academicians Projects in Contemporary Japan Until Sun 18 Sep. Group show investigating elements of collaboration and practice in the work of RSA members whose work has been directly influenced by Japan and Japanese artists. EAF. FREE Muse: Paintings from the RSA Collections Until Mon 9 Jan. Mon 10am–5pm. Pictures of women by male painters from the Academy’s collections. ■ SAPPHIRE ROOMS 81–83 Lothian Road, 229 6391. Sun–Thu 2–6pm. FREE Pot of Dreams Until Mon 29 Aug. Photos by Jannica Honey and Holly Davidson depicting Edinburgh’s lap dancing community. Fringe.
■ SCHOP 36 St Mary’s Street, schop.org.uk Mon–Fri 9am–5.30pm. FREE Nick Sargent: A Scottish Land Until Fri 7 Oct. Two large painted and embroidered canvases which investigate the nature of the picturesque.
■ SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St, 668 3635. Tue–Fri 11am–4pm; Sat 1.30–4pm. FREE Alexander Voitsekhovsky: My Never-Ending Friend Until Sat 3 Sep. Works by the contemporary Russian graphic artist. EAF. ■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Cosmopolitan Until Sun 28 Aug. Paintings by Lesley Anne Derks, Lesley Mclaren and Pam Carter taking in the bright lights of the city and the quiet idylls of the Scottish countryside.
■ THE SCOTSMAN STEPS North Bridge/Market Street, edinburghartfestival.com FREE Martin Creed: Work No 1059 Ongoing, daily 5am–midnight. Beautiful public art installation (and functioning set of steps to boot) created by Martin Creed in response to a commission from the nearby Fruitmarket Gallery. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Elizabeth Blackadder, Jacqueline Mina and Colin Reid Until Sat 3 Sep. Down the road from her National Gallery retrospective (see below) are some of Blackadder’s most recent paintings. Also on show are works in gold and glass by Mina and Reid respectively. EAF.
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CHRIS DRURY: LAND, WATER AND LANGUAGE A man, his boat and some nice scenery ●●●●●
Life’s a journey not a destination and other such homilies. God preserve us from the travelogue artists. Chris Drury is one such artist. This exhibition, which was initially created for Taigh Chearsabhagh museum and art centre in North Uist takes its lead from a two day canoe journey Drury made with a colleague in September 2009, from the top of the Eaval along the west coast to Lochmaddy. The artistic result of which steers the stream from ingenious to tedious. ‘Land and Language I’ and ‘II’ are views from the north and south of
the Eaval respectively with a twist – the images are made up of the names and the lochs and hills that are visible from the viewpoint. It’s gimmicky but pretty impressive.
In the middle of the room is the 14ft vessel (with hefty price tag) that Drury made the journey in all its primitive skin and Canadian wood glory. There’s also the paddle, a dull satellite picture of the area the artist covered and some indecipherable peat on paper work about some micro-organism that lives in peat bogs. Which leaves the quietly impressive ‘Land and Water’, a photogauvre in five parts from the view looking north of the Eaval with some nice annotation to the stunning vista. At best Drury leaves you wanting more. (Paul Dale) ■ Dovecot, 550 3660, until 4 Sep, free.
FREE Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show Until Jun 2012. Outdoor sculptures, mostly in bronze, referencing cubism and futurism. EAF. FREE Gold Glass Rubber and Recycling Until Sun 11 Sep. Danish design work informed by recycling and resourcefulness. FREE Found in the Fields Until Sun 4 Sep. Lithographs and linocuts by artist Carry Ackroyd accompany poems by 19th-century poet John Clare.
■ ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Scottish Landscapes by Rail Until Sun 4 Sep. Views from Scotland’s railways. Fringe. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat
FREE Teena Ramsay Until Mon 5 Sep. New gold and silver jewellery. ■ PATRIOTHALL GALLERY WASPS Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 226 7126. FREE Heimat Until Sun 28 Aug, Tue–Sun noon–6pm. Intriguing exhibition by four young artists, billed as ‘boys who sew, girls who weld, the best of Bavarian contemporary sculpture and giant toads’.
■ PERSIAN RUG VILLAGE 34 Morningside Road, 446 7071. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–4pm. FREE Bridge the Cultural Gap Between West and East Until Wed 31 Aug. Hand-knotted Persian rugs. Fringe.
■ PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION CENTRE 68 Great King Street, edinburghphotographicsociety.co.uk Mon–Fri 10am–7pm; Sat 1–7pm; Sun 1–5pm. International Exhibition of Photography Until Sun 4 Sep. £4 (£3). Selected images from the thousands of entries to the 149th Edinburgh Photographic Society competition. Fringe.
■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Daily 9.30am–6pm. Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein ●●●●● Until Jan 2012. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free; family ticket £15.50). An impressive collection of works by Northern European artists of the turbulent 15th and 16th centuries. EAF. ■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm.