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family £15.50). Seldom-seen pieces from the royal collection. EAF.
■ REGENT BRIDGE Calton Road, under Waterloo Place, see edinburghartfestival.com for info. FREE Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge Until Sun 2 Sep. Times vary. An installation that floods the underside of Regent Bridge with light. EAF. ■ RHUBABA GALLERY & STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.org Thu–Sun noon–5pm. FREE We Are All UFO-nauts Until Sun 2 Sep. Works by artists inspired by the late Slovakian artist Julius Koller, exploring the illogical and other-worldly. See review, page 79. EAF.
■ ROSE STREET see edinburghartfestival.com for info. FREE Kevin Harman: 24/7 Until Sun 2 Sep, daily 10am–6pm. Site- specific study of consumer culture. EAF.
■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Paradise Restored Until Sun 2 Sep. Exhibition about natural environments in south west Asia. FREE The Nature of Iraq Until Sun 2 Sep. Photography depicting natural environments in Iraq. ■ ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE East Neuk Paradise Until Mon 27 Aug. Paintings of Fife by Hatti Pattison.
■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. FREE TUTAJ/TERAZ (HERE/NOW) Until Sun 9 Sep. Work by emerging Polish artists based in Scotland. EAF. FREE A Royal Taste: Landscape Paintings from the RSA Collections (A Diamond Jubilee Celebration) Until Mon 17 Sep, Mon only 10am–5pm. This, the first of two RSA exhibitions for 2012 celebrating the Diamond Jubilee, features work by Ian Fleming, Frances Walker, James Morrison, John Miller, James Fairgrieve, John Houston and John Busby. ■ RUFUS READE ART 40 Pilrig Street, 554 1078. Daily 11am–4pm. FREE Russian Icons Until Fri 31 Aug. Religious paintings of the last three centuries.
■ SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St, 668 3635. Tue–Fri 11am–4pm; Sat 1.30–4pm. FREE Soviet Grand Designs Until Sat 22 Sep. Drawings and paintings of the post-Stalin USSR. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH ARTS CLUB 24 Rutland Square, 229 8157. FREE Ian McKenzie-Smith Tue 21– Sat 25 Aug, 2–5pm. Abstract landscapes from ex-Director of Aberdeen Art Gallery Ian McKenzie-Smith, tending towards the style of Eastern traditions as well as American colour-field painting. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Duncan Shanks & Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Until Wed 5 Sep. Paintings with a modernist flavour. EAF. FREE Out of Abstraction Until Wed 5 Sep. An array of abstraction in all its forms, featuring Gordon Baldwin, William Johnstone and many more.
LISTINGS FESTIVAL VISUAL ART
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm. Standing opposite Modern Two, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One is fronted by the giant Landform sculpture by Charles Jencks, a stepped, serpentine mound reflected in three crescent-shaped pools of water. Inside the gallery, which has a striking neo-classical façade that fits perfectly with Edinburgh’s ‘Athens of the North’ tag, are works by artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud, in frequently changing displays.
✽ Picasso and Modern British Art ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Nov. £10 (£7). Over 60 works by Picasso and an exploration of his links to Britain. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm. Opened in 1999 in a former orphanage, the Scottish National Galleries’ second modern art gallery, was formerly known as the Dean Gallery. Since its opening it has housed the Paolozzi Gift, a collection of works by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, given to the gallery in 1994. The gallery has a large garden that contains several sculptures, as well as a picnic area for sunny days. FREE Death, War and Desire Until Sun 23 Sep. Books, periodicals and woodcuts from the German Expressionist movement. Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection ●●●●● Until Sun 23 Sep. £7 (£5). Graphic works including the celebrated ‘Scream’. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm (Thu until 7pm). Long-term displays exploring different aspects of Scottish portraiture, including a display looking at the relationship between philosopher David Hume and painter Allan Ramsay; Thomas Annan’s haunting photographs of a condemned Victorian Glasgow slum; a corner devoted to George Jamesone; an investigation into the Jacobites’ self- presentation through portraiture, and many, many more. FREE In It To Win It Until Sun 7 Oct. Paintings and photographs of contemporary Scottish sportspeople.
✽ FREE Roderick Buchanan: Legacy ●●●●● Until Sun 16 Sep. Video and photography installation exploring sectarianism and Scottish flute bands. EAF. FREE Tesco Bank Art Competition Until Sun 21 Oct. Winning art from Scottish schoolchildren. FREE The Modern Scot Until Wed 31 Oct. Exhibition exploring how Scottish writers and artists developed a uniquely modern sensibility in the aftermath of World War I. FREE War at Sea Until Mon 8 Oct. Work by war artist Sir John Lavery.
■ SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, 557 2876. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm); Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Orchard Until Sat 29 Sep. Collaborative poetry/art exhibition celebrating the apple. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE The Full Story Until Sat 1 Sep. Exhibition of Marjory Boyle Crooks’ film work and large ink studies inspired by storytellers.
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CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: REMAINS TO BE SEEN Fascinating retrospective from the iconic artist ●●●●●
Torn-up black-and-white images of a woman taken almost half a century ago are laid out on the floor in criss-crossing strips, as multiples of the woman’s face stare out. This is Carolee Schneemann, performance artist, avant-provocateur and feminist icon, and she has been ripped to shreds.
This altar-like assemblage deconstructs images taken from Schneemann’s 1964 Eye Body series and forms a brand new contribution to this scaled-down retrospective of sorts featuring three recent video installations and a hitherto unseen set of photographs, Ice Naked Skating, from the same era. These feature a decidedly un-chilly looking Schneemann skating while holding her cat.
Used for years as ‘objective observers’ of her work, other cats feature in 2008’s Infinite Kisses – The Movie, a series of blurred close-ups of Schneemann and her pets getting affectionate. They’re there again in Devour, a split-screen montage of stock car crashes, suckling babies and dead bodies being picked over in war-zones. Precarious is a multi- channel document of Schneemann’s 2009 commission for Tate Liverpool that looks at notions of dancing in captivity. No cats, but a caged cockatoo and a bear on a chain suggest they too, like Schneemann, are breaking out all over. (Neil Cooper)
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm (Thu until 7pm). This building was designed by William Henry Playfair in 1850 to be a ‘temple erected to the Fine Arts’. It is home to some of the world’s finest Western art ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day, with both Scottish and internationally regarded European art, including works by Titian, Raphael, Rembrandt and Poussin. Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape Until Sun 28 Oct. £7 (£5). Panoramas and cityscapes by celebrated Italian master. EAF.
FREE Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: the Bute Collection Until Sun 2 Dec. A selection of Old Master paintings from the famous collection. FREE Piranesi: Master of Fantasy Until Sun 7 Oct. Etchings of 18th-century Rome. FREE Take Five Illustrators Until Tue 30 Oct. Exhibition of work by artists who illustrate books for children, featuring Alice Melvin, Cate James, Barroux, Sara Ogilvie and Bruce Ingham.
✽ Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880–1910 ●●●●● Until Sun 14 Oct. £10 (£7). Major international exhibition exploring symbolism and landscape painting. EAF.