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Richard Hamilton: Shock and Awe

Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures

Incomplete display of anti-establishment works by a British master

(3 stars)7 Aug 2008

While this exhibition gives a flavour of just how iconic the work of pioneering British pop artist Richard Williams has been, particularly in relation to the authority-subverting subtexts at work within them, the impression upon leaving is that only…

What is Life?

What is Life?

Scottish sculptors take on biological investigation

(4 stars)31 Jul 2008

Exploring a common interest in plants and scientific enquiry, Inverleith House curator Paul Nesbitt has drawn together works by Scottish sculptors Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Simon Starling. In a bold and considered move, he’s chosen to eschew…

William Eggleston: Portraits 1974

William Eggleston: Portraits 1974

(5 stars)16 Aug 2007

No matter what decade you were brought up in, the 1970s are absolutely dripping with glossy, honey-hued nostalgia. And it’s exactly this kitschy, colour-saturated era that William Eggleston has captured in his 1974 photographs on show at Inverleith…

Andy Warhol

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

Novelist and Goldsmiths graduate Niven Govinden charts the enduring appeal of pop artist Andy Warhol

Nathan Coley

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

‘It’s a big sculpture talking about the invisibility of things, and I think that’s beautiful,’ says Nathan Coley. He is talking about his 2006 work ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’, a six-metre high structure with the title phrase illuminated across…

Picasso on Paper

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

Alexander Kennedy explores the enduring mass appeal of Pablo Picasso as two major new exhibitions of the great 20th century artist’s work come to Edinburgh

ReSeArch: RSA Residencies for Scotland

ReSeArch: RSA Residencies for Scotland

edfest.tv - video

1 Sep 2008

Highlighting the work of RSA Residency participants who have completed RSA opportunities in 2007/08

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt

Rosalie Doubal leads a team around the city on a scavenger hunt in the name of art

21 Aug 2008

9am City Art Centre Equipped with a bike, a laptop, a compass, eight sandwiches and some anoraks, my team – a dyspraxic researcher, a father-of-one, a diehard Buckfast drinker and a token ginger – joins a long queue of eager scavengers. Neither the…

The Golden Record - Sounds of Earth

The Golden Record - Sounds of Earth

edfest.tv - video

15 Aug 2008

Artists come together to remake the original Golden Record - a phonograph record launched into space in 1997 - containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Over a hundred artists have created new work to…

Andrew Grassie

Andrew Grassie

edfest.tv - video

7 Aug 2008

For his first major solo exhibition in Scotland, Talbot Rice Gallery presents a selection of Grassie's output from the past decade.

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