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Just before the world’s largest arts festival draws to a close there’s still time for art lovers to take in some of the exhibitions and events taking place across in the capital, including this collection of draw- ings and paintings of the post-Stalin USSR hosted by the Scotland and Russia Institute. ■ Scotland and Russia Institute, Edinburgh, until Sat 22 Sep.
FREE Rachel Mayeri: Primate Cinema – Apes as Family ●●●●● Until Sun 2 Sep. Video installation about the parallels between humans and chimps. EAF.
■ EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 68 Great King Street, 453 4814. Mon– Fri 10am–7pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun 1–5pm. ■ 50th International Photographic Exhibition Until Sun 2 Sep. £4. Two hundred images selected from worldwide entries. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Cheer Up! It’s Not the End of the World . . . ●●●●● Until Sat 8 Sep. Artists including Gordon Cheung, Etienne Clement, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol engage with the subject of apocalypse. EAF. FREE Again, A Time Machine Sat 15 Sep–Sat 3 Nov. Touring exhibition exploring how artists play with words.
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■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Daily 10.30am–6pm until Sun 2 Sep; normal opening hours Mon–Sat 10.30am– 5.30pm thereafter. FREE Dazzle at Dovecot Until Mon 27 Aug. Work by 54 contemporary jew- ellery designers. FREE Weaving the Century ●●●●● Until Sun 7 Oct. Dovecot Studios celebrates 100 years of champi- oning the finest tapestry work. EAF. ■ DR NEIL’S GARDEN Church Lane, Duddingston Village, 07849 187995. FREE Octagon 2012 Until Sun 26 Aug, daily 11am–6pm. Fine art, photog- raphy, crafts and illustration from young Scottish artists.
■ EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL PAVILION St Andrew’s Square, edinburghartfesti- val.com FREE Andrew Miller: The Waiting Place Until Sun 2 Sep, daily 10am– 6pm. Temporary summerhouse. See art spotlight on inside back cover. EAF. FREE Anthony Schrag: Tourist in Residence Sat 25 Aug, 3–7pm & Wed 29 Aug, 2.30–4pm. Participatory walking tours with the artist on different themes. Booking essential. EAF. ■ EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART 74 Lauriston Place, 221 6000. Daily 10am–5pm (festival opening hours until Sun 2 Sep). FREE Cast Contemporaries Until Sun 2 Sep. Different perspectives on ECA’s cast collection. EAF.
■ GARAGE 51a Northumberland Street, 07917 668044. FREE GARAGE Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug, noon–4pm. See review, page 141. EAF.
■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 0844 493 2120. Exhibition opening hours vary, see indi- vidual listings. FREE Artwork by Gael Fisher Until Sun 26 Aug, daily 10am–7pm. Work by Fisher, plus Rod Malloch, Chloe Windsor and Lorri Anderson. FREE Serendipity 2 Tue 28 Aug– Sun 2 Sep, Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 10.30am–4pm. Mixed media paintings by Ken and Moira Russell. ■ GRASSMARKET travellinggallery.com FREE The Travelling Gallery: We Form Geology Wed 29 Aug, 11am– 5pm. See City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
■ HAGGIS HOSTELS 5/3 West Register Street, 557 0036. FREE The Haggis Gallery Until Fri 31 Aug, daily noon–6pm. Prints of Edinburgh and its surroundings.
■ PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET travellinggallery.com FREE The Travelling Gallery: We Form Geology Sat 25 Aug, 11am– 5pm. See City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; also Sun noon–5pm in Aug.
✽FREE Ian Hamilton Finlay ●●●●● Until Sat 27 Oct. Work
by the late great poet, artist and ‘avant- gardener’. EAF. Trips to Little Sparta Fri 24 & 31 Aug, 1pm. £30. Take a bus tour from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s famous garden in the Pentland Hills. Booking essential. EAF.
■ INLINGUA EDINBURGH 40 Shandwick Place, 220 5119. Mon– Thu 9am–8pm & Fri 9am–6pm; also Sat & Sun 3–5.30pm & 6.30–10pm in Aug. FREE Hand Wash Only Until Fri 28 Sep. Black and white photographs taken around Europe by Spanish artists.
■ INSPACE 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. Wed–Sun noon–8pm. FREE ~ in the fields Until Sun 2 Sep. Exhibition using found objects to make new landscapes. EAF.
■ THE INSTITUTE 14 Roseneath Street, 229 1338. Mon– Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE naked touch Until Sun 14 Oct. Portraits of the naked humans being touched by the photographer. ■ 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.
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■ MARCHMONT GALLERY 56 Warrender Park Road, 228 8228. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Mina Braun and Rosie Walters Until Sat 1 Sep. Imagined cities and landscapes by Edinburgh- based illustrators and printmakers.
■ 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). Explore the amazing collec- tions of the Tsarina. EAF. FREE One Thousand Points of Light: Melvin Moti Until Sun 21 Oct. Art inspired by items from the museum’s mineralogy department. EAF.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm.
✽FREE John Bellany at 70 Until Tue 4 Sep. See review, page
141. EAF. FREE Picasso, his Contemporaries and Modern British Printmaking Until Sat 22 Sep. Prints by Picasso and his contem- poraries. EAF. FREE Colin Black Fri 7–Tue 25 Sep. Mixed media collage landscapes and seascapes. FREE Judith Rowe Fri 7–Tue 25 Sep. Functional and decorative ceramics. FREE Kym Needle Fri 7–Tue 25 Sep. Bold and colourful paintings inspired travels in Australia.
■ OUR DYNAMIC EARTH Holyrood Road, 550 7800. FREE The Travelling Gallery: We Form Geology Thu 30 Aug, 10am–6pm. See City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7101. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; also Sun 10am–5pm in Aug. FREE Self-Reliance (1841) Until Thu 30 Aug. Alicia Bruce, Malcy Duff and Johnny Gailey put the epon- ymous principle into action.
■ PATRIOTHALL GALLERY WASPS Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 226 7126. Opening hours vary, see individual exhibition listings for details. FREE Dialogues with Reality Until Sat 25 Aug, daily noon–4pm. Work engaging with notions of reality and unreality, by Bergen-based inter- national artists. FREE Potent Memory Fri 7–Sun 16 Sep, Tue, Wed & Fri 2–4pm; Thu 2–7pm; Sat noon–5pm; Sun noon–4pm. Artists’ group Ruby – aka Yvonne Ireland, Jacqui Irvine and Jill Macleod – presents a mix of painting, photography and jewellery designs. ■ 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 paint- ings by Tom Neil.
■ EMBO 29 Haddington Place, Leith Walk, 652 3880. Mon–Sat 9am–4pm. FREE Young Artists at Embo Sat 1–Fri 28 Sep. Work by three artists from Trinity Academy. ■ JOEY D 54 Broughton Street, 557 6672. FREE Heart Breakers Until Sat 25 Aug, daily 10.30am–6pm. Six young artists engage with the urban environ- ment.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Daily 10am–7pm until Sun 26 Aug; normal opening hours Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm thereafter. FREE Dieter Roth: Diaries ●●●●● Until Sun 14 Oct. Exhibition of diaries by late, great, German-born, Iceland- based artist. 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. Scottish photographer Jim Malcolm and French painter Christophe Philibert exhibit together.
■ 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). A special Jubilee exhibition of seldom-seen pieces from the royal collection. EAF.
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