FESTIVAL VISUAL ART LISTINGS
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/ Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm. FREE Philip Guston: Late Paintings ●●●●● Until Sun 7 Oct. Shocking and hilarious cartoonish late work by former abstract expressionist. EAF. ■ LEITH LIBRARY 28–30 Ferry Road, 529 5517. Mon– Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm. FREE Art Assemblage: Cities and Other Topics Until Mon 27 Aug. Work by Scottish photographer Jim Malcolm and French painter Christophe Philibert.
■ LITTLE OX 23 Candlemaker Row, 629 0474. FREE John Trowell: De-Ja- Vu Until Sat 11 Aug. Thu-Sat, call for opening times. Digital prints and illustration from the Edinburgh artist. ■ MANSFIELD TRAQUAIR 15 Mansfield Place, 555 8475. Mon–Fri & Sun 11am–1pm. FREE Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals Mon 6–Mon 27 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 Mina Braun and Rosie Walters Until Sat 1 Sep. Work on imagined cities and landscapes by Edinburgh-based illustrators and printmakers.
■ MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOKSHOP 3a & 4a Haddington Place, Leith Walk, 556 5897. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. FREE Select Cuts: The Relief Prints of Robert Crozier Until Sat 1 Sep. Original prints of Scottish life. ■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Sense of Place: New Jewellery from Northern Lands Until Sun 16 Sep. Contemporary Nordic bling. EAF. Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress Until Wed 31 Oct. £9 (£7.50; under 16s £6; under 12s free). Exhibition showcasing the amazing collections of Catherine the Great. EAF. FREE One Thousand Points of Light: Melvin Moti Until Sun 21 Oct. New art inspired by vibrantly coloured items from the museum’s mineralogy department. EAF.
■ THE NOMAD’S TENT 21 St Leonard’s Lane, 662 1612. Mon- Sat 10am--5pm; Sun noon-4pm. FREE A Glimpse of Paradise: Garden Carpets Reviewed Rare 17th- and 18th-century garden carpets.
■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Street, 558 5400. Mon-Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Through the Looking Glass, Dimly Until Sat 18 Aug. Work by visually impaired photographers. EAF. ■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon– Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm.
✽FREE John Bellany at 70 Mon 13 Aug–Tue 4 Sep. Celebration of a
great painter and remarkable survivor. EAF. FREE Picasso, his Contemporaries and Modern British Printmaking Mon 13 Aug–
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Sat 22 Sep. Prints by Picasso and others. EAF. ■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7101. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE The Art of Giving Thu 9 & Fri 10 Aug. Work by local artists, auctioned of on Fri from 7pm in aid of the International Voluntary Service. FREE Self-Reliance (1841) Sun 12–Thu 30 Aug. Alicia Bruce, Malcy Duff and Johnny Gailey collaborate on an exhibition created from reclaimed wood and funded through crowd funding – the eponymous principle in action.
■ THE PHOENIX 46–48a Broughton Street, 557 0234. Mon–Sat 9am–1am; Sun 12.30pm–1am. FREE Despair vs Hope Until Wed 31 Oct. Figurative and abstract paintings by Tom Neil.
■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Daily 9.30am–6pm. Treasures from the Queen’s Palaces ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Nov. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free; family £15.50). Seldom-seen pieces from the royal collection. EAF.
■ REGENT BRIDGE Calton Road, under Waterloo Place, see edinburghartfestival.com for info. FREE Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge Until Sun 2 Sep. Times vary. An installation that floods the underside of Regent Bridge with light. EAF. ■ RHUBABA GALLERY & STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.org Thu–Sun noon–5pm. FREE We Are All UFO-nauts Until Sun 2 Sep. Works by artists inspired by the late Slovakian artist Julius Koller, exploring the illogical and other-worldly. EAF.
■ ROSE STREET see edinburghartfestival.com for info. FREE Kevin Harman: 24/7 Until Sun 2 Sep, daily 10am–6pm. Site- specific study of consumer culture by a recent graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. EAF. ■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Paradise Restored Sat 4 Aug–Sun 2 Sep. Exhibition about natural environments in south west Asia. FREE The Nature of Iraq Sat 4 Aug–Sun 2 Sep. Photography depicting natural environments in Iraq.
■ ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE East Neuk Paradise Until Mon 27 Aug. Paintings of Fife by Hatti Pattison. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. FREE TUTAJ/TERAZ (HERE/ NOW) Until Sun 9 Sep. Work by emerging Polish artists based in Scotland. EAF. FREE A Royal Taste: Landscape Paintings from the RSA Collections (A Diamond Jubilee Celebration) Until Mon 17 Sep, Mon only 10am–5pm. This, the first of two RSA exhibitions for 2012 celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, features work by Ian Fleming, Frances Walker, James Morrison, John Miller, James Fairgrieve, John Houston and John Busby.
■ RUFUS READE ART 40 Pilrig Street, 554 1078. Daily 11am–4pm. FREE Russian Icons Until Fri 31 Aug. Religious paintings of the last three centuries.
■ SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St, 668 3635. Tue–Fri 11am–4pm; Sat 11am–1.30pm. FREE Soviet Grand Designs Until Sat 11 Aug. Drawings and paintings of the post-Stalin USSR. EAF. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Duncan Shanks & Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Until Wed 5 Sep. Paintings with a modernist flavour. EAF. FREE Out of Abstraction Until Wed 5 Sep. An array of abstraction in all its forms, featuring Gordon Baldwin, William Johnstone and many more.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm (Thu until 7pm). This building was designed by William Henry Playfair in 1850 to be a ‘temple erected to the Fine Arts’. It is home to some of the world’s finest Western art ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day, with both Scottish and internationally regarded European art, including works by Titian, Raphael, Rembrandt and Poussin. Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape Until Sun 28 Oct. £7 (£5). Panoramas and cityscapes by celebrated Italian master. EAF. FREE Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: the Bute Collection Until Sun 2 Dec. A selection of Old Master paintings from the famous collection. FREE Piranesi: Master of Fantasy Until Sun 7 Oct. Etchings of 18th-century Rome. FREE Take Five Illustrators Until Tue 30 Oct. Exhibition of work by artists who illustrate books for children, featuring Alice Melvin, Cate James, Barroux, Sara Ogilvie and Bruce Ingham.
✽Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in
Europe 1880–1910 ●●●●● Until Sun 14 Oct. £10 (£7). Major international exhibition exploring symbolism and landscape painting. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm. Standing opposite Modern Two, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One is fronted by the giant Landform sculpture by Charles Jencks, a stepped, serpentine mound reflected in three crescent-shaped pools of water. Inside the gallery, which has a striking neo-classical façade that fits perfectly with Edinburgh’s ‘Athens of the North’ tag, are works by artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud, in frequently changing displays.
✽Picasso and Modern British Art Until Sun 4 Nov. £10 (£7). Over
60 works by Picasso and an exploration of his links to Britain. See review, page 87. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm. Opened in 1999 in a former orphanage, the Scottish National Galleries’ second modern art gallery, was formerly known as the Dean Gallery. Since its opening it has housed
the Paolozzi Gift, a collection of works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, given to the gallery in 1994. The gallery has a large garden that contains several sculptures, as well as a picnic area for sunny days. FREE Death, War and Desire Until Sun 23 Sep. Books, periodicals and woodcuts from the German Expressionist movement. Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection ●●●●● Until Sun 23 Sep. £7 (£5). Graphic works including the celebrated ‘Scream’. EAF. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm (Thu until 7pm). Long-term displays exploring different aspects of Scottish portraiture, including 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; an investigation into the Jacobites’ self- presentation through portraiture, and many, many more. FREE In It To Win It Until Sun 7 Oct. Paintings and photographs of contemporary Scottish sportspeople. FREE Roderick Buchanan: Legacy ●●●●● Until Sun 16 Sep. Video and photography installation exploring sectarianism and Scottish flute bands. EAF. FREE Tesco Bank Art Competition Until Sun 21 Oct. Art from Scottish schoolchildren. FREE The Modern Scot Until Wed 31 Oct. Exhibition exploring how Scottish writers and artists developed a uniquely modern sensibility in the aftermath of World War I. FREE War at Sea Until Mon 8 Oct. Work by war artist Sir John Lavery.
■ SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, 557 2876. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm); Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Orchard Until Sat 29 Sep. Collaborative poetry/art exhibition celebrating the apple. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE The Full Story Until Sat 1 Sep. Exhibition of Marjory Boyle Crooks’ film work and large ink studies inspired by storytellers. ■ SLEEPER Reiach and Hall Architects, 6 Darnaway Street, 225 8444. Mon-Fri 2-5pm. FREE Martina Klein and Walter Janßen Mon 13 Aug-Fri 21 Sep. Klein is a German artist known for monochrome paintings.
■ SOUTHSIDE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 20 Nicolson Street, 510 0051. Mon–Sat 9am–6pm. FREE Combin(e)d 3: A Scottish Sequel Until Fri 31 Aug. Prints, paintings and textile art by part-time students of the ECA. ■ ST ANDREW SQUARE see edinburghartfestival.com for more information FREE ~ in the fields: Yen to See Different Places Until Sun 2 Sep, daily 10am–6pm. A new commission playing with tourists’ views of idealised landscapes. EAF.
■ ST JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Princes Street, 221 2273. Daily 10am–6pm.