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2012 Invades Popular Culture: Mayans, Memes, and the End of a World Era
Date	Location
Apocalyptic culture researcher (one for the list of 'jobs we'd like to have') Kevin Whitesides discusses the 2012 phenomenon and how the end of the world has suddenly become a hot topic for everyone – not just the crazies. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival: Art Late. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
23 Aug 6.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Alasdair Gray: Making Prints 1952–2011
Date	Location
Tying in with his current exhibition at Studio 41, Gray gives a talk on his practice with projected images of selected prints made since he was a student at Glasgow School of Art. View full details
13 Jun 6pm	Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Artist-designed Textiles and Pioneering Modern Art
Date	Location
Lesley Jackson tells the story of the career of Constructivist artist Alastair Morton, highlighting his importance for British art and textiles in the 20th Century. View full details
21 Aug 12.45pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Art and Conflict: Commissioning War Art
Date	Location
Talk exploring the varied difficulties of commissioning art on contemporary conflict, with particular discussion of Roderick Buchanan’s film and photographic work Legacy in the context of 20th and 21st-century war art. View full details
1 Aug 12.45pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Art & Design Studies Summer School
Date	Location
Intensive week-long summer courses in different art and design disciplines. View full details
16 Jul–10 Aug Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm	Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Art and Escapism in the Nineteenth Century
Date	Location
Alastair Smith, Curator for the National Trust for Scotland, presents this talk on how the exoticism and mystery of Japan and China influenced 19th century artists. View full details
24 Sep 10.30am	Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh

Artist Talk: Gill Russell
Date	Location
Gill Russell, whose installations are on display in the gallery, talks about her work. View full details
16 Jun 7pm	An Talla Solais, Ullapool

ATLAS: Talking Art
Date	Location
Leading artists come to Skye to discuss their work. View full details
2 Jun 2pm Alex Frost discusses sculpture and installation.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree
11 Jul 7pm Harris-based sculptor Steve Dilworth presents his latest work.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree
4 Aug 2pm Neville Gabie talks about his project for the 2012 Olympics.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree
1 Sep 2pm Chris Dooks discusses his current artwork and recent residencies.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree
6 Oct 2pm Graham Fagan presents his work.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree
10 Nov 2pm Nicky Bird talks about her work in photography and new media.	Tigh Na Sgire, Portree

Atmosphere: Digital Storytelling
Date	Location
Matt Adams from multidisciplinary artists' group Blast Theory delivers a webinar (which you can attend in person or online) on the principles of digital storytelling. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Jun 1.30pm	Inspace, Edinburgh

Ayrshire Burns Brightly
Date	Location
A series of arty projects taking inspiration from the democratic ideals of the Scottish Enlightenment, and how they inspired Burns. Installation and soundscape experiences take over Ayrshire, and there's also a large cardboard tower that the public are invited to help tear down. Part of Roofless. View full details
31 May–3 Jun Times vary	Various Venues, South Ayrshire

The Battle for Leonardo: Curating and Connoisseurship
Date	Location
Luke Syson gives a talk on the disputed authorship of some of Leonardo's most mysterious paintings, the Madonna Litta, the London Virgin of the Rocks and the Buccleuch Madonna of the Yarnwinder. He explores the scientific evidence and the hazy meaning of 'a Leonardo', both in the artist's own time and today. View full details
28 Aug 6pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Beer & Blethers: On the Brewing of Creative Ideas and Processes
Date	Location
Spring Fling presents an informal evening of discussion about the creative processes of three artists, with Scottish beer to sip as you listen. With Alice Francis, Matt Baker and Tim Taylor. Booking is essential. View full details
1 Jun 7pm	Sulwath Brewery, Castle Douglas

Between Thought and Experience: Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd
Date	Location
Dr Kirstie Skinner, independent writer and lecturer, explores the viewer's experience of works within The Sculpture Show exhibition. View full details
11 Jun 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

Books in Focus: Dada
Date	Location
Librarian Kerry Watson gives a talk looking at the history and artists of the Dada movement through their published books and periodicals, and particularly how they subverted expectations of publishing through anarchic artwork, poetry and typesetting. Booking is essential. View full details
2 Aug 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Café Art: Monet et les artistes américains à Giverny
Date	Location
A talk (in French) on the American artists who gathered around the northern French village of Giverny in the period 1885 to 1914, including Theodore Butler, Theodore Robinson, John Leslie Breck, Lilla Cabot Perry and others. View full details
30 May 5.30pm	Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh

Café Art: Paris vu par les artistes à travers les siècles
Date	Location
Agnès Ness leads a discussion (in French) about the eternal appeal of Paris as an inspiration or subject for artists, from the 15th century to the present day. View full details
13 Jun 5.30pm	Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh

The Colourists and their Contemporaries
Date	Location
Ian O’Riordan,curator at the City Art Centre, presents this lecture on the work of Fergusson, Peploe, Cadell and Hunter, collectively known as the Colourists and pivotal to the development of Scottish art in the first half of the 20th century. View full details
1 Oct 10.30am	Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh

Concert Party and Fencing Scene: Lord Fortrose, later Ist Earl of Seaforth, at home in Naples by Pietro Fabris 1771
Date	Location
Talk examining the visual records that show just how luxurious life was for British people living in 18th-century Italy. View full details
20 Jul 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Curating Lusieri
Date	Location
The National Gallery's chief curator, Aidan Weston-Lewis, talks about curating the exhibition of work by little-known landscape watercolour painter, Giovanni Battista Lusieri. View full details
30 Jun 2pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Curator's Talk: Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
Date	Location
Co-curator Dr Norman Shaw gives a talk about the works in the current exhibition, expanding on the apocalyptic themes they explore. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
4 Aug 2pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Curator's Talks
Date	Location
Talks on different topics by the Burrell's team of curators. View full details
6 Jun 12.30pm The Museum Manager gives a talk about ornamenting landscape and, particularly, the Warwick Vase.	Burrell Collection, Glasgow
13 Jun 12.30pm Liz Hancock presents a talk entitled 'Baroque Flowers and Animals' and examines Portuguese chairs.	Burrell Collection, Glasgow
27 Jun 12.30pm The Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Art examines a tapestry featuring the Olympic Games.	Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Edvard Munch: a 'Bridge' to the Expressionist Generation
Date	Location
Dr Christian Weikop discusses how Munch and his art was adopted as a 'pathfinder' by the artists of Expressionism,with special reference to the Brücke (Bridge) artists who hoped that he would become an active member. View full details
17 Sep 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

Edvard Munch Graphic Works: Curator's Tour
Date	Location
Lucy Askew, Senior Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art, gives a tour of the privately-owned collection of 50 works on paper by Edvard Munch, discussing the exhibition's key themes and Munch's innovative approach to printmaking. View full details
16 Jul 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

The Enduring Appeal of Japanese Art
Date	Location
Japanese art starting becoming popular in Scotland in the late 19th century and now Dr Rosina Buckland talks about what it was about the art that captured attentions at that time. View full details
29 Jun 7.30pm	Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura, Dumfries

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