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■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. LAST CHANCE RSA Open 2012 Until Thu 31 Jan. The Royal Scottish Academy’s annual selection of the best works chosen by open submission. Scottish Painters and Limners Part 2 Until Mon 25 Mar. Second part of the exhibition focusing on the position of Scottish Painter and Limner, Scotland’s official royal artist. This instalment focuses on artists who’ve held the position in the 20th century: Robert Gibb, David Young Cameron, Stanley Cursiter, David Donaldson and Elizabeth Blackadder. NEW Portfolio: Treasures from the Diploma Collection Wed 6 Feb–Thu 14 Feb. Exhibition coinciding with Dr Tom Normand’s eponymous book Portfolio: Treasures from the Diploma Collection of the Royal Scottish Academy, featuring some of the major works in the Academy’s collection. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. LAST CHANCE Lisa Hammond: Ceramics Until Wed 30 Jan. Ceramics from artist working with the salt and soda vapour glaze. LAST CHANCE Sir William Gillies: Works on Paper Until Wed 30 Jan. Still lifes and landscapes from the renowned painter.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm).
✽ LAST CHANCE John Bellany: A Passion for Life Until Sun 27
Jan. £7 (£5). Last chance to catch this major restrospective featuring work from all periods of Bellany’s career. See review, page 106. LAST CHANCE 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 two centuries. LAST CHANCE Turner in January Until Thu 31 Jan. The annual display of JMW Turner watercolours bequeathed by Henry Vaughan. At Vaughan’s behest, the delicate watercolours are only shown in January when daylight is weak to avoid fading. NEW Rodin: The Kiss Sat 2 Feb–Sun 2 Feb 2014. One of the most famous sculptures in the world, notoriously animated by Terry Gilliam as a perverse musical instrument, Rodin’s The Kiss is coming to the National Gallery. This is the second version Rodin made of the piece, in response to a commission by American collector Edwin Perry Warren. Trivia fact: Warren, who was pagan and proud of it, specified in his contract that ‘the genitals of the man must be complete’, and not neatly tucked between the thighs, as in the original. Rodin did not, as it were, rise to the occasion, but The Kiss is still one of the sexiest blocks of stone ever hewn into shape.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales Until September. A major exhibition bringing together works from the collection of Dimitri Daskalopolous, Greek industrialist and art collector, with a common focus on themes of the body. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). The Scottish Colourist Series: SJ Peploe Until Sun 23 Jun. £7 (£5). A retrospective of the work of Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), the eldest
of the artists known as the Scottish Colourists (the others being FCB Cadell, JD Fergusson and GL Hunter). Peploe studied in Edinburgh and two years in Paris introduced him to new developments in French painting. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits 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. This exhibition examines what the tartan meant to six people painted between 1680 and 1780. Citizens of the World: David Hume & Allan Ramsay This exhibition looks at the relationship between Hume and Ramsay and the circles that surrounded them. George Jamesone: Scotland’s First Portrait Painter 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, so that he could take commissions from people all over the country. Imagining Power: the Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause An exhibition looking at the way the Jacobites presented themselves in portraiture. LAST CHANCE Jitka Hanzlová Until Sun 3 Feb. Photographs by Czech-born photographer who settled in what was then West Germany, in 1982. Hanzlová’s photographs trace how home and belonging shape identity. Leading Lights: Portraits by KK Dundas Until Sun 3 Mar. A set of portraits commissioned by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD) in its 60th anniversary year, featuring the school’s best known alumni. Lucknow to Lahore: Fred Bremner’s Vision of India Until Sun 7 Apr. Exhibition of the work of Fred Bremner, a Scottish commercial photographer who travelled widely in India between 1882 and 1922 and took spectacular photographs of the country and its people. Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland An exhibition looking at how women were depicted (not to mention which women were depicted) in the visual arts between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, from Newhaven fishwife Elizabeth Hall to ruler of the British Empire Queen Victoria. Also Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780–1872), an exceptionally intelligent science fan who was lucky enough to have a second husband who was fully supportive of her scientific interests, with the result that she became one of the most brilliant and successful popular science writers of her time: she now has a college, an island, an asteroid and a lunar crater named after her. Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport A major exhibition examining the way sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Check out the fabulously suspicious scowl of the gentleman on the poster; whoever he played for, he looks like he was a sore loser. Reformation to Revolution A major exhibition covering the transformation of Scotland from an independent nation ruled by Catholic monarchs in the beginning of the 16th century, to a part of the Union with Protestant England at the end of the 17th. Among the portraits included are Adrian Vanson’s brilliant depiction of the then James VI of Scotland as a hood-eyed melancholic and Marcus Gheeraerts’ touching portrait of James’ fool, Tom Derry.
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