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David Batchelor: My Own Private Bauhaus
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GRACE SCHWINDT: FIVE SURFACES ALL WHITE
CCA, Fri 6 Sep–Sun 13 Oct, cca- glasgow.org Work examining different societal structures of power, using film, performance, drawing and sculpture, informed by historical and biographical research.
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF
THE LIGHTHOUSE STREET LEVEL OPEN
The Lighthouse, until Sun 29 Sep, thelighthouse.co.uk A celebration of 20 years of Scotland’s Centre for Design and Architecture, with an exhibition of archive material, a timeline of past exhibitions and more attractions. Street Level Photoworks, Thu 12– Tue 24 Sep, streetlevelphotoworks. org Work by new and established photographers who are either based in Scotland or who were living there when the work was made.
JONATHAN BALDOCK: JASMINA CIBIC: AN
FACECRIME ATMOSPHERE OF JOYFUL
Tramway, until Sun 6 Oct, tramway. org New work presenting an alternative history of clay as a tool of communication and carrier of language.
LANA HALPERIN: MINERALS OF NEW YORK
Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, until Sun 13 Oct, gla.ac.uk/hunterian Work exploring the relationship between geology and everyday life, centred on a piece of garnetiferous gneiss, excavated from the street which Halperin grew up on.
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CONTEMPLATION CCA, Fri 13 Sep–Sun 13 Oct, cca- glasgow.org A film trilogy installed within an immersive installation featuring props and sculpture, looking at how different countries have used culture to project strength and nationhood. Part of Some things want to run.
EDINBURGH
DAVID BATCHELOR: MY OWN PRIVATE BAUHAUS
Ingleby Gallery, until Sat 28 Sep, inglebygallery.com Sculptures, paintings and drawings inspired by the Bauhaus but infused with Batchelor’s own artistic sensibility, including a fascination with colour. See review at list.co.uk
CUT AND PASTE: 400 YEARS OF COLLAGE
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, until Sun 27 Oct, nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish- national-gallery-modern-art A first survey exhibition of collage, featuring 250 works which span 16th-century anatomical flap prints to computer-based images. See review at list.co.uk
Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour
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GRAYSON PERRY: JULIE COPE’S
GRAND TOUR Dovecot Studios, until Sat 2 Nov, dovecotstudios.com The Turner Prize-winning artist explores the life of
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an ordinary woman through the medium of tapestry, in his first ever Scottish exhibition. See review at list.co.uk
WILD AND MAJESTIC: ROMANTIC
VISIONS OF SCOTLAND National Museum of Scotland, until Sun 10 Nov, nms.ac.uk Displays and objects showing how some of the defining images of Scotland got created between the 18th and 19th centuries, including highland and military dress, landscapes, literature and other exhibits. See review at list.co.uk
THE ITALIAN CONNECTION City Art Centre, Sat 7 Sep 2019–Sun 24 May 2020, edinburghmuseums. org.uk/venue/city-art-centre An exploration of the creative links between Scotland and Italy, which have existed for hundreds of years. Featured artists include Allan Ramsay, EA Walton, FCB Cadell, Joan Eardley, Eduardo Paolozzi
and Elizabeth Blackadder.
ADE ADESINA RSA: AURORA Royal Scottish Academy, Sat 14 Sep– Fri 25 Oct, royalscottishacademy.org Linocuts, woodcuts and etchings with an ecological theme, from the Nigerian- born, Aberdeen-based artist.
CARBON’S CASUALTIES Summerhall, until Sun 27 Oct, summerhall.co.uk Work by New York Times photographer Josh Haner, documenting the realities of climate change.
OUT OF TOWN
LINDSAY SEERS: EVERY THOUGHT
THERE EVER WAS Hospitalfield Arts, Sat 7 Sep—Sun 13 Oct, hospitalfield.org.uk Work reflecting on the way the brain functions in schizophrenia.
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI NICK CAVE: UNTIL
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh, until Sun 27 Oct, nationalgalleries.org/ visit/scottish-national- gallery-modern-art Two- part film show which takes inspiration from Ursula K Le Guin’s The Shobies’ Story. See review, page 100.
Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 24 Nov, tramway. org Ambitious installation by the American artist and dancer, confronting the issues of gun violence and racism. See review, page 99.
LINDA MCCARTNEY RETROSPECTIVE
Kelvingrove Art Gallery
& Museum, Glasgow, until Sun 12 Jan 2020, glasgowlife.org.uk/ museums/venues/ kelvingrove-art-gallery- and-museum Exhibition of photographs taken by Linda McCartney during the 1960s and 70s, curated by her husband Paul and daughters Mary and Stella. See review, page 100.
FIONA TAN: DISORIENT Gallery Of Modern Art, Glasgow, until Sun 26 Jan 2020, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums/venues/ gallery-of-modern- art-goma Spectacular two-screen film installation by the Amsterdam-based artist Fiona Tan, which explores historic and contemporary perceptions of the ‘oriental’ through
ideas about colonialism, myth, identity and war. See review, page 100.
ALBERTA WHITTLE: HOW FLEXIBLE CAN
WE MAKE THE MOUTH Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sat 14 Sep–Sun 24 Nov, dca.org.uk Alberta Whittle embarks in her first major solo exhibition. See review, page 100.
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