VISUAL ART
■ EMBASSY 10b Broughton Street Lane, embassygallery.org Thu–Sun noon–6pm during exhibitions NEW Urara Tsuchiya: You’ve Been Selected Sat 24 Nov–Sun 16 Dec. Work by this Glasgow-based Japanese artist exploring the boundaries between the personal and social worlds; includes performances of Venus Flytrap on 24 Nov (6-9 pm) and 25 Nov (12-6 pm) and a Christmas Toddlers and Tiaras Beuaty Pageant on 9 Dec (7-9pm).
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm.
review, page 112. ✽ Galápagos Until Thu 3 Jan. See ■ HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Riccarton, 449 5111. LAST CHANCE Travels along the Silk Road Until Fri 30 Nov. Daily 1–4pm. World textiles on show at the Heriot Watt Museum and Archive, Mary Burton Centre, Level 1 of the Library. Part of Previously . . . Scotland’s History Festival.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Harland Miller: Overcoming Optimism Until Sat 26 Jan. Artist and writer who painted fictitious Penguin book covers. Kevin Harman: When a tree falls Until Sat 22 Dec. Young Scottish artist interested in confronting the barriers between the act of creation and the act of experience. ■ INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Mon– Wed & Fri 9.30am–6.30pm (Thu until 8.30pm); Sat 10am–1pm. Changement de décor Until Sat 19 Jan. Photographs by Albie Clark, documenting the activities of the 2012 Festival at the Institute.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/ Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm.
✽ Andy Hope 1930: When Dinosaurs Become Modernists
Until Sun 27 Jan. See review, page 113.
■ NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS CENTRE 15a Pennywell Court, 315 2151. Mon-Sat 10:00-16:00 LAST CHANCE Borja Prada: Welcome to Muirhouse Until Fri 30 Nov. Photographs of Muirhouse by Spanish photographer Borja Prada.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. LAST CHANCE Angus McEwan, David Poxon, Denis Ryan and Sandra Walker: Art of the Real Until Tue 27 Nov. Watercolourists championing a revival of realism. LAST CHANCE George Donald RSA RSW Until Tue 27 Nov. Portraits, landscapes and still life. LAST CHANCE Kenna Crawford Until Mon 26 Nov. Mixed media sculptures and works reflecting the artist’s love of nature. ■ PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE Royal Mile, 556 5100. Nov–Mar daily 9.30am–4.30pm. Last admission 1h before closing. NEW The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Years Fri 16 Nov–Sun 24 Feb. £15.10 (£8.15–£13.75; under 5s free). 60 photographs of the Queen by 60 leading press photographers are brought together to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.
■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain
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two centuries. Artists featured include Turner, Sandby, Girtin and Nasmyth but also remarkable amateurs like Henriette Ouchterlony and Gregory Sharpe.
✽ NEW John Bellany: A Passion for Life Sat 17 Nov–Sun 27 Jan.
£tbc. In celebration of the 70th birthday of John Bellany the Gallery is mounting this major retrospective (the largest for 25 years) featuring work from all periods of his career, from the early paintings of fisher-folk through the more expressionist work of the 70s and 80s that reflected the artist’s battles with inner demons and physical illness, to his more recent richly coloured allegorical paintings.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. The Scottish Colourist Series: SJ Peploe Until Sun 23 Jun. Thu 10am–7pm; Mon-Wed, Fri-Sun 10am–5pm. £7 (£5). A retrospective of the work of Samuel John Peploe (1871– 1935), the eldest of the artists known as the Scottish Colourists. Peploe studied in Edinburgh and two years in Paris introduced him to new developments in French painting. Here are nearly seventy paintings, some of which have rarely if ever been exhibited before.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits Until Tue 31 Dec. Exploring what the tartan meant to six people painted between 1680 and 1780. A stroll down the Royal Mile will confirm to even the most philosophically sceptical observer that tartan and highland dress are, as they say, Emblems of Scottish National Identity. Citizens of the World: David Hume & Allan Ramsay Until Thu 31 Dec. Exploring the relationship between Hume and Ramsay and the circles that surrounded them. Too few Scots are aware that Scotland has its own Enlightenment, and a hugely influential one at that, with a world-class philosopher in David Hume, an equally heavy-hitting economist in Adam Smith, an outstanding painter in Allan Ramsay, plus less well-known intellectual giants like Hutcheson, Ferguson, Reid and others. Close Encounters: Thomas Annan’s Glasgow Until Mon 31 Dec. In 1866, Glasgow’s City Improvement Trust set about planning large-scale improvements of old Glasgow city, large parts of which were among the worst slums in Britain. They commissioned photographer Thomas Annan to document what was going to be knocked down, and the result was the first photographic record ever made of slum housing and a fascinating and haunting series of photographs in its own right. George Jamesone: Scotland’s First Portrait Painter Until Tue 31 Dec. George Jamesone (c 1690–1644) was the first great native portrait painter in Scotland, master of a rich, colourful and intricate style and so successful that he had two houses, one in his native Aberdeen and one in Edinburgh, to take commissions from people all over the country. Imagining Power: the Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause Until Thu 31 Dec. An exhibition looking at the way the Jacobites presented themselves in portraiture.
✽ Jitka Hanzlová Until Sun 3 Feb. ●●●●● See review, page 113.
John Slezer: A Survey of Scotland Until Mon 31 Dec. The military engineer John Slezer (c 1650–1717) came from the continent to Scotland in 1671 and worked for the army surveying fortifications, but in
REVIEW MUSIC-THEMED PHOTOGRAPHY A HERO OF THE TRUE WEST / BOB DYLAN IN THE ‘JUDAS’ YEARS Summerhall, Edinburgh, until Sat 24 Nov ●●●●●
The pathway from Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan is a tellingly symbolic one in the two most straightforward of six big shows exploring the relationships between sound and vision in very different ways. The images of these two icons of popular music may be a short stroll from a dark room to the basement, but captured at their creative peak, these two pop cultural giants mark out the co-dependent leap from blue-collar street-songs to the avant-garde. In A Hero of the True West, Jim Marshall’s images capture the Man in Black in transit via 30 black and white shots of Cash in concert and with his family in the late 1960s. When Cash peers through the grille of a van en route to Folsom Prison, so stony-faced is he that it’s as if he’s in a cell of his own making. If Cash appears on the run from his own demons, the image of him with Dylan is a kind of baton passing. Because, as captured by celebrity snapper Barry Feinstein in Don’t Follow Leaders – Bob Dylan in the ‘Judas’ Years, Dylan revelled in his people’s poet status. Looking impossibly hip against a bombed-out backdrop of crumbling houses and snot-nosed street urchins in mid 1960s Liverpool, it clearly wasn’t just Dylan’s guitar that was electric. (Neil Cooper) ■ For a full round-up of the current exhibitions at Summerhall please see list.co.uk
exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. Scottish Painters and Limners: works from the RSA Collection Until Mon 18 Mar. Mon 10am-5pm. Painter and Limner, a position in the Royal Household in Scotland that since 1823 has been occupied by a series of eminent Scottish artists: currently Elizabeth Blackadder, but previous examples include Henry Raeburn, David Wilkie, William Allan, John Watson Gordon, Joseph Noel Paton, Robert Gibb, David Young Cameron, Stanley Cursiter and David Donaldson, all represented here. NEW RSA Architecture Open 2012 Sat 24 Nov–Sun 16 Dec. The RSA showcases new architecture in Scotland. All work in the show is from open submission. NEW RSA Open 2012 Sat 24 Nov–Thu 31 Jan. The Royal Scottish Academy’s annual selection of the best works chosen by open submission. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. LAST CHANCE James Morrison: The View From Here Until Wed 28
Nov. New landscapes from veteran artist. LAST CHANCE Sally Fawkes and Richard Jackson: Two Views Until Wed 28 Nov. Although both Fawkes and Jackson work in cast glass, their technical and conceptual approaches are very different. In this new body of work they complement each other’s practices to create new forms which are entirely unique. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). LAST CHANCE Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: the Bute Collection Until Sun 2 Dec. Old Master paintings from the famous Bute Collection in Mount Stuart, featuring works by Dutch, Flemish and French painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, David Teniers, Joos van Cleve, Jacob Jordaens, and Antoine Le Nain. Town and City: Scotland’s Urbanised Landscape 1700–1900 Until Sun 10 Feb. Paintings, drawings and prints from the Gallery’s collection, showing the gradual development of urban life in Scotland over the course of