China A Photographic Portrait at the City Art Centre is remarkable both in its scale and the insight it provides into the changing lives of the people of China. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cityartcentre

A series of witty etchings of famous authors created by artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman. This exhibition includes images of Virgina Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Hunter S Thompson amongst others. Designed to co-incide with Aberdeen's Word Festival.

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