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and Other Drawings Until Sun 28 Aug. Pen and wash drawings celebrating the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ creation. Fringe. 11am–5pm. Installation by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, commissioned by the Collective Gallery. Fringe & EAF.
■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Daily 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Chris Drury: Land, Water and Language ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. Mixed media based on a canoe trip across North Uist. EAF. FREE Heirlooms Until Sun 4 Sep. An historical display of brightly coloured Indian and Javanese cloths, juxtaposed with three contemporary pieces. EIF.
■ EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART 74 Lauriston Place, 221 6000. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Anish Kapoor: Flashback Until Sun 9 Oct. Two major works – ‘White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers’ (1982) and ‘Untitled’ (2010) – by the celebrated sculptor, on show in the sculpture court. EAF. FREE Body Bags / Simonides ●●●●● Until Fri 9 Sep. Epitaphs by Greek poet Simonides appear in translations by Robert Crawford alongside evocative, square format, black and white photographs by Norman McBeath. EAF. FREE Postgraduate Degree Show Until Sun 28 Aug. Work by the ECA’s postgraduate students in art, design and architecture disciplines. FREE Somewhere in Time: Postliminal Until Fri 26 Aug. A group exhibition engaging with the idea of the satellite.
■ THE EDINBURGH GALLERY 20a Dundas Street, 557 5002. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE A Variety of Paintings from our Gallery Artists Until Sat 17 Sep. Group show. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Lineage ●●●●● Until Sat 3 Sep. Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie. EAF & Fringe. FREE The Writing on your Wall Sat 17 Sep–Sat 29 Oct. An exhibition curated by Rob Tufnell, that looks at printmaking as a socially-engaged and democratic artform that can disseminate radical ideas.
■ EMBASSY 10b Broughton Street Lane, embassygallery.org Thu–Sun noon–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Smile Until Sun 28 Aug. See review, page 136.
■ FETTES COLLEGE East Fettes Avenue, 332 2281. FREE The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value Until Sun 28 Aug,
■ FILMHOUSE 88 Lothian Road, 228 2688. Daily 10am–10pm. FREE Benghazi Speaks: Revolutionary Images from the Libyan Uprising Until Sun 4 Sep. Images of revolutionary graffiti and cartoons in Libya.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Daily 10am–7pm until Tue 30 Aug; Mon–Sat 11am–6pm & Sun noon–5pm from Wed 31 Aug.
✽✽ FREE Ingrid Calame ●●●●● Until Sun 9 Oct. Real-world marks
and tracings (such as tyremarks and stains on buildings) transformed into intricate and colourful paintings. EAF. ■ GALERIE MIRAGES 46a Raeburn Place, 315 2603. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Jewellery of the World Until Sun 4 Sep. World jewellery. Fringe.
■ GARAGE 51a Northumberland Street, 07917 668044. FREE Garage: Micro-residencies Sat 27 & Sun 28 Aug, noon–4pm. The artist-run space welcomes an international selection of UK-based artists for a collaborative ‘micro- residency’ developing and exhibiting site-specific work. ■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 0844 493 2120. FREE In Two Minds Until Sun 28 Aug, 10am–7pm. Mixed media exhibition by Andrea Elles and Sarah Dawnay.
■ HENDERSON’S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. Mon–Sat 8am–10pm; Sun 11am–4pm. FREE Four Artists, One City: An Edinburgh Story Until Fri 30 Sep. Specially commissioned work in various media by four young Scottish artists looking at the Edinburgh cityscape.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm.
✽✽ FREE Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville ●●●●●
Until Sun 2 Oct. The first large-scale solo show of Rauschenberg’s work to be presented in the UK for 30 years. EAF.
■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Festival Exhibition Until Sat 1 Oct. Changing selection of paintings. ■ 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 Road, 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 Text and Image Until Sat 3 Sep. Prints, paintings and drawings from Angela Lemaire. Fringe. ■ MORNINGSIDE GALLERY 94 Morningside Road, morningsidegallery.co.uk Mon & Wed–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11.30am–5pm. FREE An Inspired Display Sat 3–Fri 30 Sep. A feature collection by Lynn Rodgie, plus new work from Georgie Young, Stephen Carruthers, Basia Roszak and Margaretann Bennett.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (also Sun 28 Aug noon–5pm, otherwise closed Sun). FREE Mystics or Rationalists? ●●●●● Until Mon 24 Oct. See review, page 60. ■ 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 Ailsa Purdie’s winning entry. Fringe.
■ INSPACE 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. Wed–Sun noon–8pm. FREE Left to my Own Devices Until Sun 4 Sep. A playful, accessible array of device art from artists practising in China, Japan and Scotland. ■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND: MAP LIBRARY 33 Salisbury Place, Causewayside, 623 3918. FREE Housing Paper Worlds Until Fri 26 Aug, 9.30am–5pm. Student designs for a new Cartographic Institute.
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■ 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.
■ NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS CENTRE 15a Pennywell Court, 315 2151. Tue–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Snapshot: Putting Edinburgh West on the Map Until Tue 30 Aug. An exhibition of digital images which map the hopes and fears of people in western Edinburgh.
■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Depot, peacockvisualarts.com FREE Katri Walker: North West ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep, Tue-Sat noon–6pm. Video art from Walker exploring Scotland’s ties with Wild West culture.
■ 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 a starry selection of artists including Picasso, Miro, Toulouse- Lautrec and Dufy.
✽✽ FREE John Byrne RSA ●●●●● Until Mon 5 Sep. See
review, page 60. FREE Life Forms Until Mon 5 Sep. New figurative sculpture. FREE Teena Ramsay Until Mon 5 Sep. New gold and silver jewellery. FREE Henry Fraser Fri 9–Tue 27 Sep. Soulful portraits that invite reflection. FREE Jonathan Gibbs Fri 9–Tue 27 Sep. Illustrative and meticulous linear prints. FREE Lowri Davies Fri 9–Tue 27 Sep. Hand-illustrated bone china. FREE Nicola Morrison Fri 9 Sep–Sat 8 Oct. Precious metal jewellery influenced by Japanese textiles. ■ PATRIOTHALL GALLERY WASPS Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 226 7126. FREE Heimat Until Sun 28 Aug, 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’.
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