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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

Anne Eunson: In-between Calgary and Toronto
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Photographs and drawings reflecting the time the artist spent in Canada. View full details
23 Jun–8 Jul Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Art & Design Studies Summer School
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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

Campbell Sandlands: Perfect Reflection
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Paintings and prints inspired by the artist's interest in Zen Buddhism. View full details
12 May–30 May Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm	The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Cast Contemporaries
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Drawing and copying from casts of famous sculptures has been part of traditional art school education for centuries, although some question its relevance to the development of today's artists, and anyone who's ever been an inside ECA can verify that they have a truly impressive cast collection. This exhibition looks at it through the perspective of contemporary art, films and workshops. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
3 Aug–2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
Date	Location
Are we all doomed? A number of artists, including Gordon Cheung, Etienne Clement, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol have engaged with the subject of the end of the world as we know it, and with some claiming the apocalypse is nigh at the end of 2012, Edinburgh Printmakers has pulled together an apocalyptic selection of contemporary prints to ensure that we're all culturally sated as we hurtle towards the infinite black. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–8 Sep Tue–Sat 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, 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

Dialogue: A Travelling Printmaking Group Exhibition Engramme
Date	Location
Work from Quebecois print workshop and artists collective Engramme, exploring the duality of dialogue through 26 separate diptychs. View full details
2 Jun–21 Jul Tue–Sat 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Dieter Roth: Diaries
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The artist Dieter Roth (1930–98) began as a constructivist, but was galvanised by the social and artistic upheaval of the 1960s into reinventing himself as a multi-media, multi-art renaissance man, producing sculptures, books, pictures and writings. This exhibition focuses on his diaries, which he used to keep appointments but also to write down ideas and poems, as a sketchbook and as a place to keep photos. He exhibited in the legendary Strategy: Get Arts from the 1970 Edinburgh Festival and… View full details
2 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 10am–7pm 27 Aug–14 Oct Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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The big daddy of arts festivals, the Fringe has it all. The facts and figures speak for themselves: nearly 1.9 million tickets sold in 2011 for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues. It's the biggest celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, exhibitions and music in all its forms in the world. View full details
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Gold Sheep
Date	Location
Stone lithography prints and watercolours from Czech artist Lucie Hrnickova and woodcut prints and mixed media work from Andy Cumming, both award-winning recent graduates. View full details
4 Jul–9 Jul Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–8pm 3 Jul 6pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

Hidden Stories
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Graduate exhibition from students, exploring the Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design's local and global presence. View full details
2 Jun–7 Jun Mon–Thu, Sat & Sun 10.30am–5.30pm	Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

It's Hard To Find A Good Lamp
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Group show by Embassy Gallery artists investigating the boundaries between art, furniture and interior design. Part of Annuale. View full details
16 Jun–1 Jul Fri–Sun noon–5pm	Rhubaba Studio, Edinburgh

It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
Date	Location
Recent work by eight young artists working across different disciplines in Edinburgh. View full details
31 May 7pm Opening night.	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
1 Jun–6 Jun Mon–Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft
Date	Location
A touring exhibition from the Crafts Council marks the opening of this new venue opened by the Craft Town Scotland project. Includes innovative and surprising twists on traditional crafts, including digitally generated bubble jewellery, digitally 'woven wood' and an investigation into the reflective properties of a candelabra. View full details
2 May–1 Jul Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	The Barony Centre, West Kilbride

The Making of It
Date	Location
Artists from Scotland, Turkey, Switzerland, Malta and Greece show work with process and playfulness at its heart. View full details
16 Jun 6pm 17 Jun–27 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
28 Jun 6pm Part of LeithLate.	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

Mick Peter & BS Johnson: Lying and Liars
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Exhibition examining notions of 'lying' in art, with special reference to the remarkable work of the English writer and filmmaker BS Johnson, who became so obsessed with said notions that he found himself arguing that writers shouldn't write about anything except their own personal experiences. This project will include some screenings of his work. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
2 Aug–29 Sep Tue–Sat 11am–5pm	Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

A Parliament of Lines
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Work by fifteen important Scottish artists – or at any rate, artists who've been through the Scottish education system – who use drawing as a central component in their practice. Featured artists are Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flannigan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd and Ainslie Yule and the exhibition is organised around five themes: The Body… View full details
5 May–8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

PixelAge
Date	Location
Showcase for digital videos, images and short films by Stevenson College HND2 Computer Art & Design students. View full details
9 Jun–17 Jun Mon–Sun 11am–7pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Postal
Date	Location
Inaugural group exhibition of Postal, a publication celebrating new and emerging artists and designers working in the Edinburgh area. Part of Annuale. View full details
22 Jun–23 Jun Fri & Sat 11am–5pm	Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh

Richard Dunn
Date	Location
New work. View full details
28 May–15 Jun Mon–Sun 2–5pm	Sleeper, Edinburgh

Rip Off Workshop!
Date	Location
Inappropriate appropriation is the order of the day in this fun collage workshop. Taking the work of subversive artists The Chapman Brothers (currently on display in the Cheer Up exhibition) and others as inspiration. Places very limited. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. Booking is essential. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
11 Aug 1.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Social Growth
Date	Location
Work by David Steans, Dean Kenning, Francis Thorburn, Jason Penney and Julike Gittner, concerned with public and social spaces and the relationships between humans, non-humans and objects within these spaces. Part of Annuale. View full details
9 Jun–24 Jun Thu–Sun noon–6pm	Embassy, Edinburgh

That Distance Was Between Us
Date	Location
Installation by Rachael Cloughton and Joe Constable that seeks to question the notions of distance and apathy that the media often induces in the spectator. Part of Annuale. View full details
11 Jun–14 Jun Mon–Thu 11am–5pm	Lecture Theatre 183 at Old College, Edinburgh

X-ray Exhibition: Inr-i
Date	Location
Exhibition organised by Artlink featuring work made in hospital settings in collaboration with radiographers, including x-rays of everyday objects. View full details
14 May–25 Jun To be confirmed	The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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