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Since its opening it has housed the Paolozzi Gift, a collection of works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, given to the gallery in 1994. It also has an extensive collection of Dada and Surrealist art and literature. The gallery has a large garden that contains several sculptures, as well as a picnic area for sunny days. For less perfect weather, however, the Café Modern Two inside serves some fantastic light lunches and snacks. The Scottish Colourist Series: FCB Cadell ●●●●● Until Sun 18 Mar. £7 (£5). The first of a series of retrospectives about the four artists known as the ‘Scottish Colourists’. FREE The Scottish Colourists and their Circle Until Sun 18 Mar. An overview of the work of FCB Cadell, JD Fergusson, GL Hunter and SJ Peploe, as well as younger artists inspired by their work. FREE Scottish Painting Between the Wars Until Sun 18 Mar. Explore the alternative to the Colourists: artists like Edward Baird, James Cowie, William Crosbie and William Crozier drew inspiration from the cubist and vorticist movements. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). Currently on show are a host long- term displays exploring different aspects of Scottish Portraiture. They include: a set of portraits of people painted wearing their tartan in the 18th century; a display looking at the relationship between philosopher David Hume and painter Allan Ramsay; Thomas Annan's haunting photographs of a condemned Victorian Glasgow slum; a corner devoted to George Jamesone, widely accepted as Scotland's first great portrait painter; an investigation into the Jacobites' self-presentation through portraiture; military engineer John Slezer's landscape engravings from the late 17th and early 18th centuries; a survey of how and why women had their portraits painted in the 19th century; an exhibition of work showing how sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes in the last two centuries; a section focusing on the Reformation; and finally a group of portraits of the heroes of Scotland's great industrial and cultural transformation of 1750--1850. FREE Graham Fagen: Missing Until Sat 31 Mar. A specially commissioned new video work projected onto two screens, based on the theme of missing people. FREE Hot Scots Until Sun 1 Apr. Display of photographic portraits of some of Scotland’s top creative people. FREE Migration Stories: Pakistan Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition exploring Scotland’s links with Pakistan. FREE Pioneers of Science Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition of portraits of the men, women and in at least one case the sheep, whose adventures in science have shaped the modern world. FREE Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography & the Modern World Until Sun 3 Jun. The opening exhibition of the refurbished National Portrait Gallery consists of some of the greatest photographs in the Gallery’s collection and explores questions of national identity. FREE The Modern Scot Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition exploring how Scottish writers and artists developed a uniquely modern sensibility in the aftermath of World War I, featuring such pivotal figures as Hugh MacDiarmid and JD Fergusson. FREE War at Sea Until Wed 31 Oct. Paintings by Sir John Lavery on loan from London’s Imperial War Museum.
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■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE I Am Woman Fri 2–Wed 28 Mar. Beautiful and challenging works created by female artists in response to the task of representing female experience. Part of the Goddess programme for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.
■ SOFI’S 65 Henderson Street, 555 7019. Mon–Fri 2pm–1am; Sat noon–1am; Sun 1pm–midnight. FREE Bill Murray Exhibition Until Tue 1 May. A collection of coloured pencil drawings of Bill Murray served up with some cult classic movies in the projection room. ■ ST JOHN’S CHURCH Princes Street, 221 2273. FREE Aisha Al-Sadie: Land of the Sun Fri 2 & Sat 3 Mar, 8am–4pm. Painting exploring the mixed cultural heritage of the Scottish-Iraqi artist. Part of the Middle Eastern Festival of Spirituality and Peace.
■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools ●●●●● Until Sun 18 Mar. A photography exhibition documenting the voyage of the MV Global Mariner, a cargo ship that toured the world from 1998 to 2000 carrying in its holds a travelling exhibition of working conditions at sea. FREE Richard Williams: United States Until Sun 18 Mar. Photos and artefacts relating the history and future of the great Atlantic ocean liner SS United States.
■ SUPERCLUB GALLERY AND STUDIOS 11a Gayfield Square, superclubstudios.com Thu–Sun 1–6pm. FREE Dead Guys Until Mon 26 Mar. Drawings by Sophie Alda, Jon Boam, Patrick Kyle, Matthew Swan, Jack Teagle and others, on a theme related (apparently) to zombies. I (Heart) Leith
■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Alison Turnbull Sat 10 Mar–Sat 5 May. Meticulous
paintings derived from plans and charts, examining systems of classification. FREE James Cumming RSA, RSW Sat 10 Mar–Sat 5 May. A celebration of the hard-edged, modernist work of James Cumming (1922–1991). ■ TENT GALLERY Evolution House, 78 West Port, 221 6091. FREE Constant Until Sun 4 Mar. Thu 5.48pm–7.01am; Fri 5.50pm–6.58am; Sat 5.52pm–6.56am; Sun 5.53pm–6.53am. Installation that mixes light from passing traffic with a projected video, by ECA postgraduate students Joseph Calleja and Jonathan Galea.
■ TORRANCE GALLERY 36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10.30am–4pm. FREE Tom Watt: Places and Faces in the Sun Until Sat 10 Mar. Paintings and drawings of the artist’s adopted homeland of France. FREE Ken Ferguson & Kathleen Conboy Sat 17–Sat 31 Mar. Landscape paintings and drawings.
■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Cathy Campbell Until Mon 2 Apr. Still lifes in the first solo exhibition in Edinburgh of the work of Cathy Campbell, a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.
■ THE VILLAGE 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. Mon–Sat 11am–11.45pm; Sun 12.30–11.45pm. FREE John Nicholls: Recent Work 2010–2012 Until Fri 16 Mar. A photo journal from across Scotland, London, Prague and Marrakech. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ BYRE THEATRE Abbey Street, St Andrews, 01334 475000. Daily 10am–10pm during StAnza.
FREE Body Bags / Simonides Mon 5 Mar–Mon 2 Apr. Daily 10am–10pm. Epitaphs by the Greek poet Simonides, in translations by poet Robert Crawford, alongside evocative, square format, black and white photographs by Norman McBeath. Part of StAnza. FREE StAnza: Various Exhibitions Wed 14–Sun 18 Mar. Various displays around the theatre and other venues around the town exploring the relationships between verse and visual art. Part of StAnza.
■ COVE PARK Peaton Hill, Cove, 01436 850123. Booking via the CCA, 0141 352 4900.
✽✽ Cryptic: The View Thu 29 & Fri 30 Mar, 6.15pm departure from
CCA. £5 (including travel & refreshments. Cryptic Nights presents a site-specific project by Rory Middleton at Cove Park in Argyll. The large-scale outdoor installation is a structure juxtaposing modernist architecture with the natural landscape, and is augmented by a performance involving cinematic and live music elements.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Jane & Louise Wilson Until Sun 25 Mar. Photographs of
sites around the abandoned town of Pripyat in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and a film installation exploring the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai. See review, page 120. ■ LINLITHGOW BURGH HALLS The Cross, Linlithgow, 01506 282720. Mon–Sat 9am-5pm (Tue & Thur until 9pm); Sun 11am-5pm. FREE Alasdair Gray: Proper Gray Matters Until Sun 18 Mar. Gray’s politics and poetry together with a range of drawings, screen prints and paintings. FREE Katharine Aarrestad Sat 24 Mar–Sun 15 Jul. New work from the artist whose trademark technique of reverse painting on glass creates subtly disconcerting images.
Scottish artist Alastair Gordon returns to his roots with an exhibition of drawings and paintings completed while he was artist in residence at Leith School of Art in summer 2011. Gordon, who took his foundation art course at Leith in the late 90s, was struck by the transformation of the buildings and docklands that surround the school, being caught somewhere between the area’s industrial heritage and the new aspirations for dockland regeneration. ■ Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, until Fri 30 Mar.