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GLASGOW
KRIS LEMSALU Tramway, tramway.org, until Sun 14 Apr Sculptural installations from the Estonian artist, evoking the bestial side of humanity. See review, page 116. LEONARDO DA VINCI: A LIFE IN DRAWING Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, glasgowlife.org.uk/ museums/venues/kelvingrove- art-gallery-and-museum, until Mon 6 May A look at the drawings of Leonardo, one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
SHADI HABIB ALLAH: FREE REIN CCA, cca-glasgow.com, Sat 20 Apr–Sun 2 Jun An exhibition exploring the legacy of government welfare and the hidden economy of corner shops.
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION: EXPRESSIONIST PRINTS Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, gla.ac.uk/hunterian/, until Sun 25 Aug Prints from important German artists working between 1918 and 1919, including Schiele, Klinger, Kokoschka, Munch, Dix, Schmidt- Rottluff, Nolde, Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz. EDINBURGH
SOMETIMES I DISAPPEAR Ingleby Gallery, inglebygallery. com, until Sat 13 Apr Work from contemporary woman artists who work with self-portraiture conventions but avoid or confront the viewer's gaze: Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Oana Stanciu and Zanele Muholi
ANNE-MARIE COPESTAKE: LOOKING IN EITHER DIRECTION THE WHOLE STREET WAS FILLED
Anna Ray 'Tassel', The Fourth Cordis Prize for Tapestry
WITH PEOPLE, SOME SINGING, MOVING TOWARDS X... Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, dundee.ac.uk/ cooper-gallery/, until Sat 13 Apr First solo exhibition by Anne-Marie Copestake, focusing on capturing the politics of the collective in everyday life through sculptures, print and installations. See review, page 116. ROBOTS National Museum of Scotland, nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of- scotland/, until Sun 5 May New major exhibition developed by the Science Museum that looks at our 500-year quest to make robots human.
THE FOURTH CORDIS PRIZE FOR TAPESTRY Royal Botanic Garden, rbge.org. uk, until Mon 27 May Work by the finalists of the biggest international award for tapestry. ORLA KIELY: A LIFE IN PATTERN Dovecot Studios, dovecotstudios. com, until Sat 29 Jun Exhibition of the works of designer Orla Kiely, whose flat style and colourful palette have become very popular.
AMBIT: PHOTOGRAPHIES FROM SCOTLAND Stills, stills.org, Sat 13 Apr–Sun 23 Jun A partnership between Glasgow's Street Level Photoworks
and Edinburgh's Stills, this exhibition showcases works by emerging Scottish photographers. PETRA BAUER AND SCOT-PEP: WORKERS! Collective, collective-edinburgh. art, Sat 13 Apr–Sun 30 Jun A film collaboration between Swedish artist Bauer and sex worker-led collective SCOT-PEP.
TRAVELLING GALLERY: DISPLACED Inch Community Centre, travellinggallery.com, Tue 14 May Artists respond to the theme of global migration and the refugee crisis in the latest Travelling Gallery exhibition.
THE LONG LOOK Scottish National Portrait Gallery, nationalgalleries.org/ visit/scottish-national-portrait- gallery, Sat 25 May–Sun 27 Oct A collaboration between the painter Audrey Grant and the photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath, exploring the art of portraiture. OUT OF TOWN
DAVID AUSTEN: UNDERWORLD Dundee Contemporary Arts, dca. org.uk, until Sun 9 Jun British artist David Austen presents the full breadth of his work for the first time in Scotland. The exhibition, Underworld,
aims to create a mythical space and journey with works in a range of media from oil paintings to cinematic projections.
AS WE SEE IT: TWENTIETH CENTURY SCOTTISH ART The McManus, Dundee, mcmanus. co.uk, until Tue 31 Dec Work by Scottish artists who investigated new means of making art during the 20th century, including John Houston, William Johnstone, Joan Eardley, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, James Morrison and Will Maclean. VIDEOGAMES: DESIGN/PLAY/ DISRUPT V&A Museum of Design Dundee, vam.ac.uk/Dundee, Sat 20 Apr– Sun 8 Sep Exhibition focusing on the design aspect of video games. Exploring the work that has been done in the area since the mid- 2000s, this exhibition, alongside a series of events, talks, commissions and workshops, reflects on the complexity of video games and the international debates surrounding them. See feature, page 48.
MARTIN BOYCE Mount Stuart House and Gardens, Bute, mountstuart.com, Sat 2 May–Mon 18 Nov Outdoor sculpture inspired by the former existence on the grounds of a tennis court.
BORDERLINES Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, ed.ac.uk/ talbot-rice, until Sat 4 May Group exhibition about the concept of borders, with work from Lara Almarcegui, Rossella Biscotti, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Willie Doherty, Nuria Güell, Ruth E Lyons, Amalia Pica, Khvay
Samnang, Santiago Sierra, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor. See review, page 115. SENGA NENGUDI The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, fruitmarket. co.uk, until Sun 26 May A comprehensive overview of the career of the trailblazing American artist, with some of her best-known works from
the 1970s to the present. See review, page 116. DOMESTIC BLISS Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums/ venues/gallery-of- modern-art-goma, until Thu 31 Dec An exhibition which brings together work from Glasgow Museums’ collection to look at the
history of the building as a former house, Royal Exchange and civic space. See review, page 116. VICTORIA CROWE City Art Centre, Edinburgh, edinburghmuseums. org.uk/venue/city- art-centre, Sat 18 May–Sun 13 Oct A major retrospective of the work of
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artist Victoria Crowe, with over 150 paintings from all periods of her career.
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