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This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival programme features an eye-catching mix of artists past and present, Scottish and international
F rom repurposed warehouses to historic masterpieces, the Edinburgh Art Festival’s 2012 programme, to be unveiled this August, showcases international stars, world-renowned artists and local heroes. The all-new ‘Promenade Programme’ of publicly sited city commissions includes works by Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz, recent Edinburgh College of Art graduate Kevin Harman, Glasgow-based Andrew Miller, and Anthony Schrag, the festival’s ‘tourist in residence’. Elsewhere, international talent is on show, presenting major exhibitions throughout the capital, including Hermann Nitsch at Summerhall, Melvin Moti at the National Museum of Scotland, Rachel Mayeri at Edinburgh College of Art and Philip
Guston at Inverleith House.
Major retrospectives and themed exhibitions include Picasso and Modern British Art at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscapes in Europe 1880-1910 at the Scottish National Gallery and Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress at the National Museum of Scotland. Look out, too, for solo retrospectives of work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Leslie Hunter and John Bellany, as well as works by David Hockney, Paul Gauguin, Eduardo Paolozzi and Claire Barclay.
The Edinburgh Art Festival runs from Thu 2 Aug–Sun 2 Sep. edinburghartfestival.com
LIST.CO.UK Visit us daily for arts & entertainment news 5 Things. . . GUYS OR DOLLS A spoiler-ridden top five list of cross-dressing cinema
1 Albert Nobbs Glenn Close stars
as the 19th century Irish woman who adopted the disguise
of a butler to gain independence. See review, page 63.
2 The Crying Game
One of the all-time classic mid-movie plot twists, as Forest Whitaker’s playful use of pronouns pays off.
3 Tootsie Dustin Hoffman
reverses the Albert Nobbs tactic, feigning femme to get a soap opera role. He nearly got Best Actor for it, too.
4 Transamerica Showstopping
turn from Felicity Huffman as the pre- op male-to-female transsexual searching for the son she fathered.
5 The Rocky Horror Picture
Show Tim Curry is just a sweet transvestite
from transsexual Transylvaniaaaah. Uhuh.
NewsExtra BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE ■ Here at The List, we’ve been following the plight of Edinburgh’s former Odeon cinema on Clerk Street for the past few years, with the historic building continually under threat of demolition. Activists are said to be ‘positive’ following the news that the space has been upgraded from a category B to a category A-listed building. The art deco venue, formerly known as the Victoria, was built in the 1930s, and, having been bought by developers in 2003, has been empty ever since.
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