Visual art and "Edinburgh"

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13 Young Danes
Date	Location
Danish students at the art schools of Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow exhibit a wide range of current work as part of an artistic exchange programme led by the Danish Cultural Institute. View full details
11 Jun–26 Jul Mon–Thu 10am–4pm	The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

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

Alan McGowan: The Language of the Body
Date	Location
Figurative drawings of the human body, exploring ideas of enquiry and doubt. View full details
25 May–3 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–10pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

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

Allan Ramsay: Fathers & Sons, Wives & Children
Date	Location
Art historian Dr Patricia Andrew gives a talk on the theme of 'Picturing Power', as part of a series of Portrait Gallery talks. View full details
29 Aug 12.45pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Andrew Miller: The Waiting Place
Date	Location
Andrew Miller's contribution to the Edinburgh Art Festival is the pavilion itself, intended as a tribute to those small buildings (pavilions, bothies, follies, gazebos) that are built for no one particular purpose. It's a playful summerhouse designed to be multi-purpose, good for hosting discussions, talks and tours and simply for being somewhere to hang out while you're waiting to meet people. The title is from Dr Seuss's classic Oh The Place You'll Go. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
2 Aug–2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion, Edinburgh

Anne Eunson: In-between Calgary and Toronto
Date	Location
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

Anne Roberts & Heather Fraser
Date	Location
Paintings and sculpture. View full details
14 May–31 May Mon–Thu 10am–3pm; Sat 10am–2pm	St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh

Annuale
Date	Location
A chance for Edinburgh artist-led projects to show off their talents, supported by The Embassy. A celebration of all things grassroots and artist in Auld Reekie. View full details
8 Jun–24 Jun Times vary	Embassy, Edinburgh

Anthony Schrag: Tourist in Residence
Date	Location
Anthony Schrag's work has a subversive wit; an early video, Stairs, features him walking up the underside of a flight of stars in his block of flats, filmed with an upside-down video camera, so that a person walking down the stairs normally appears to be upside-down. Here he runs a series of participatory tours of Edinburgh which encourage you to interact with the city in different ways. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. Booking is essential. View full details
4 Aug–29 Aug To be confirmed	Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion, Edinburgh

Anya Gallaccio: Billboard for Edinburgh
Date	Location
Artist Anya Gallaccio's contribution to the Billboard for Edinburgh project is a microscopic photograph of a tiny speck of dirt taken from Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh's very own extinct volcano. View full details
23 May–21 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Billboard is viewable at any time.	Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Arabella Hope: New Works
Date	Location
Painting, photography and sculpture by Fettes College Artist in Residence Hope. View full details
18 May–31 May Fri–Thu 10am–6pm By appointment only.	Fettes College, Edinburgh

Aremy Stewart: Family Matters
Date	Location
Paintings by Minnesota-born artist, inspired by family life and growth. View full details
29 May–31 May Tue–Thu 10am–3pm	Whitespace, 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

Art and the Garden
Date	Location
Exhibition that explores the relationships between artists and the garden. View full details
5 May–8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Art by the Water
Date	Location
Fifteen artists from Coburg House Art Studios exhibit their paintings and crafts. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
9 Jun–16 Jun Mon–Sun 11am–6pm	Coburg House Studios, Edinburgh

Art Cart
Date	Location
Artist-led art activities for all the family, inspired each month by something different from the gallery collections. View full details
3 Jun 2pm 1 Jul 2pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Art for Not Quite Beginners: Looking 10
Date	Location
An informal discussion-based tour of the gallery led by art historian Ola Wojtkiewicz. The theme for this session is Masterpieces. Booking is essential. View full details
31 May 10.30am	Clore Education Centre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Art for Not Quite Beginners: Making 10
Date	Location
A hands-on art-making workshop led by artist Rosie Lesso, exploring the art and craft of collage. View full details
31 May 1.30pm	Clore Education Centre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Arts & Crafts Exhibition
Date	Location
An exhibition featuring everything from beadcraft to model railways. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
12 Jun 10am	South Leith Parish Church, Edinburgh

Atmosphere: Belief
Date	Location
Video documentary or 'cinematic data visualisation' that is the final part in the Flat Earth Trilogy, created by Matthew Jarvis, John Cobban, Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. The installation comprises a montage of video footage sourced from YouTube, coupled with a projection of a map that shows where in the world each clip is from. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Jun–1 Jul Mon–Sun 8.30–9pm	Inspace, Edinburgh

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

Bags of Art
Date	Location
Collect a bag of art activities from the art station, and you and your family can explore the gallery with its help and make your own art. Ages 4–12. View full details
17 Jun 2pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

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

Beginners Website Design
Date	Location
A course that will teach you how to make your own website using Adobe Dreamweaver, covering HTML, CSS and Photoshop. Some computer experience is required. Price given is for the full four-week course. View full details and ticket info
31 May–21 Jun Thu 6–9pm	Stills, Edinburgh

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

Black & White Photography 2 -– Fine Printing and Alternative Processing
Date	Location
For those with some knowledge of analogue photography, or who have completed the beginners' course, this course offers a chance to extend your developing and printing skills and to learn a bit more of the technical lingo. Some darkroom experience is required. Price given is for the full six-week course. View full details and ticket info
29 May–3 Jul Tue 6–9pm	Stills, Edinburgh

Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits
Date	Location
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. View full details
17 Feb 2012–31 Dec 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Blue Box Room
Date	Location
A series of exhibitions and drawing events. Space is limited. Booking is essential. View full details
10 Jun–11 Jun Mon & Sun noon–3pm With work by Sarah R. Cameron.	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
15 Jun–16 Jun Fri & Sat noon–3pm With work by Paulina Sandberg.	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
20 Jun Tue & Wed midnight	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, 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

Books in Focus: German Expressionism
Date	Location
Kirstie Meehan, from the Gallery's Archive and Library, discusses artists' books by German expressionists such as Kokoschka, Balach and Grosz (and Kandinsky, who wasn't German but who gave up the chance of a professorship in Law to study art in Germany). Booking is essential. View full details
7 Jun 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Books in Focus: Surrealism
Date	Location
A chance to see rare publications dating from the very beginning of the Surrealist movement, many of them owned by Roland Penrose and Gabrielle Keiller, whose collections contain fine examples of works by artists including Max Ernst, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí. Booking is essential. View full details
6 Sep 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Botanical Artists
Date	Location
Botanical watercolours from Fiona Strickland and Anna Knights. View full details
8 Jun–22 Jun Tue–Sat 2–5pm	Art Amatoria, Edinburgh

Botanical Images Scotia
Date	Location
Works by major botanical artists from around the world. View full details
6 Jun–22 Jun Mon–Sun 10.30am–4pm	John Hope Gateway Centre at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Britain Through the Eyes of St Petersburg Artists
Date	Location
Paintings by St Petersburg artists visiting England. View full details
26 May–30 Jun Tue–Fri 10.30am–4.30pm; Sat 1.30–4.30pm	Scotland-Russia Institute, 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

Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge
Date	Location
Best known as an abstract painter, Callum Innes works for the first time with light in an installation which floods the dark and dirt-encrusted Regent Bridge with coloured light. Created with architect and lighting artist Gavin Fraser and co-commissioned by the EAF and the Ingleby Gallery. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
2 Aug–2 Sep Times vary	Regent Bridge, Edinburgh

Callum Innes: Works on Paper
Date	Location
Retrospective of works on paper from 1989 to 2012 by Edinburgh-based abstract artist. View full details
15 May–14 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Carolee Schneemann
Date	Location
Carolee Schneemann for once deserves the word 'iconic'; from being a muse to Joseph Cornell and performing with Robert Morris, she's gone on to create a body of her own work that set a new standard in coupling intellectual integrity with visceral intensity, with unforgettable works such as Meat Joy, Interior Scroll* and Up To and Including Her Limits. Plus, she really, really likes her cats. In her 70s she's as active as ever, and this exhibition includes new and vintage video works as… View full details
2 Aug–27 Sep Mon–Sun 11am–7pm	Summerhall, Edinburgh

Cast Contemporaries
Date	Location
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

Charlotte McDonald: Converging Beauty
Date	Location
Recent paintings by the Scottish artist inspired by explorations of a privately owned forest in Scotland. View full details
30 May–14 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–6pm	Royal Overseas League, 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

Chinese Calligraphy & Brush Painting Class
Date	Location
Learn the ancient art of calligraphy and brush painting under course leader Chi Zhang. Suitable for both beginners and improvers. Cost includes all materials. View full details
15 May–26 Jun Tue 6.30–8.30pm	The Confucius Institute for Scotland, Edinburgh

Chris Saunders
Date	Location
Photographs of contemporary South African street culture, by a photographer and filmmaker with an intimate knowledge of it. View full details
18 May–10 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm	The Institute, Edinburgh

Close Encounters: Thomas Annan's Glasgow
Date	Location
In 1866, Glasgow's City Improvement Trust set about planning large-scale improvements of old Glasgow city, large parts of which were among the worst slums in Britain. They commissioned photographer Thomas Annan to document what was going to be knocked down, and the result was the first photographic record ever made of slum housing and a fascinating and haunting series of photographs in its own right. View full details
17 Feb–31 Dec Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Colour Plate Lithography
Date	Location
Weekend course at the open access printmaking studios, showing you how to use light sensitive aluminium photo plates to expose and print detailed marks in black and white and colour. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course. View full details
13 Oct–14 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, 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

Craig Jefferson: Drawing Reality
Date	Location
An exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Edinburgh-based artist Craig Jefferson. View full details
4 May–15 Jun Mon–Sat 9am–4.30pm	Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

The Creator
Date	Location
A film created by art filmmakers Al and Al to celebrate the centenary of computing and artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing, taking the form of a surreal dream in the scientist's mind. View full details
24 Jun 9pm Followed by a Q&A with the artists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.	Inspace, 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

David Farren
Date	Location
Oil and arylic paintings in an impressionist style of New York and Edinburgh. View full details
2 Jun–30 Jun Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm	Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

The Derek Williams Collection
Date	Location
Derek Williams was a quiet chartered surveyor from Wales, who built up a remarkable collection of modern British art. It now belongs to a trust established in his name, and features important work by major figures such as Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Sean Scully and Howard Hodgkin. View full details
1 Dec 2012–24 Feb 2013 Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

DesignMarket
Date	Location
An arts market encompassing furniture, graphic design, homewares and fashion from the best designers as selected by the Fruitmarket, and taking over all of the gallery's spaces for the weekend. View full details
13 Jul–15 Jul Fri 5–8pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Fruitmarket Gallery, 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
Date	Location
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

Digital Imaging and Photo Lithography
Date	Location
Learn how to prepare digital images in Photoshop and print out acetates for exposure onto litho plates. Some previous experience of Adobe Photoshop is essential. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course. View full details
2 Jun–3 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm 27 Oct–28 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Digital SLR Camera Training
Date	Location
Weekend workshops in getting the most out of your digital SLR camera, with a blend of technical tuition, demonstration, practical assignments and group discussion. Price given is for the full weekend. View full details and ticket info
23 Jun–24 Jun Sat & Sun 11am–5pm 4 Aug–5 Aug Sat & Sun 11am–5pm	Stills, Edinburgh

Digital SLR Photography
Date	Location
Learn to get the most out of your DSLR camera as well as some post production instruction in Adobe Photoshop. Price given is for the full six-week course. (Course also available Wed evenings.) View full details and ticket info
25 May–29 Jun Fri 11am–2pm	Stills, Edinburgh

Digital SLR Photography
Date	Location
Learn to get the most out of your DSLR camera as well as some post production instruction in Adobe Photoshop. Price given is for the full six-week evening course. (Course also available Fri mornings.) View full details and ticket info
23 May–27 Jun Wed 6–9pm	Stills, Edinburgh

Ding Dong, the Queen is Dead!
Date	Location
Video, installation and poem by Inbal Drue examining subjects such as society, rules, battles and strategies. Part of Annuale. View full details
12 Jun–24 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Tent Gallery, Edinburgh

Dovecot 1912–2012: 100 Years of Contemporary Tapestry
Date	Location
Dovecot Studios celebrates 100 years of championing the finest contemporary work in tapestry, as part of its ongoing centenary series. View full details
13 Jul–7 Oct Mon–Sun 10.30am–5.30pm	Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Date	Location
Where cabaret meets life drawing - the models are burlesque divas, strapping hunks of manhood and circus freaks. Win alcohol and fancy art supply prizes at this antidote to solemn, lifeless classes. View full details
10 Jun 3pm	The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

Drawing and Painting the Figure with Damian Callan
Date	Location
A workshop in drawing and painting techniques led by artist and experienced tutor Callan. View full details
18 Apr–20 Jun Wed 9.45am–4pm Daytime course.	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh
18 Apr–20 Jun Wed 7–9.45pm Evening course.	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh

The Drawing Room
Date	Location
Monthly experimental drawing sessions inspired by works in the collection, each led by a contemporary artist. All materials are provided. Please book in advance. Booking is essential. View full details
14 Jun 5.30pm 12 Jul 5.30pm 9 Aug 5.30pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

Easel Sketching in the Gallery
Date	Location
If you feel inspired enough by the masterpieces in the gallery to try your hand at a bit of sketching, come along for a session led by artist Damian Callan. There's a different subject each month, and sometimes a live model. View full details
21 Jun–22 Jun Thu & Fri 2–4pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Art Festival
Date	Location
A celebration of visual art across the capital, with exhibitions, artist talks, special events, tours and live music. EAF encompasses the full spectrum of the visual arts world, from repurposed warehouses and historic masterpieces to the best cutting edge work. Its programme of commissions shows the best of contemporary Scottish art in unexpected places. View full details
2 Aug–2 Sep Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date	Location
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

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

Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection
Date	Location
It's the face that launched ten thousand angst-ridden diaries by visually-literate teenagers: Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was its creator's iconic image (he did several versions of it over the years) and one of the only prints hand-tinted by Munch himself is coming to Modern Two this summer, along with a generous selection of other prints by the master Expressionist. Expect high security: 'The Scream', in its various media, is one of the most-stolen pictures in art history. Part of Edinburgh… View full details
29 May–23 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Emerging Talent: Three Illustrators
Date	Location
Three illustrators from Edinburgh College of Art exhibit new work. View full details
19 May–17 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet

The End is Nigh! Block Printing Workshop
Date	Location
Taking the apocalyptic theme of the exhibition Cheer Up! It’s Not the End of the World … * as inspiration, print your own doomsday message using this rough and ready old poster medium. *Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
18 Aug 1.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Environmental Landscape Photography
Date	Location
Exploring concepts of 'boundaries, borders, frames and edges' this course takes you on small expeditions around Edinburgh to develop techniques in landscape photography. Price given is for the full six-week course. View full details and ticket info
25 May–29 Jun Fri 2–5pm	Stills, Edinburgh

Erotic: Surreal & Abstract
Date	Location
Exhibition of cross-platform surreal and abstract erotic artwork, showcasing Scottish and European artists. Part of Festival of the Erotic Arts. View full details and ticket info
22 Jun–24 Jun (Over-18s only) Times vary	Whitespace, Edinburgh

Europe 1900: New Landscapes for Changing Times
Date	Location
In conjunction with the gallery's exhibition of symbolist landscapes, Professor Richard Thomson explores how fin-de-siècle ideas interlock in paintings by artists including Böcklin, Hodler, Munch and Kandinsky. View full details
14 Jul 2pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Everyone Must Choose His Own Way, and Mine Will be the Way of Colour
Date	Location
Bill Smith presents this talk on the life and work of Leslie Hunter, the least known of the four Scottish Colourists. After all his work was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906, Hunter started all over in Scotland, with a particular focus on Fife and Loch Lomond. View full details
15 Aug 10.30am	Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh

Ewan John
Date	Location
Lithographs and other items (including badges, totes, notebooks and cards) by artist/designer who specialises in work that illustrates a narrative. View full details
7 Jun–5 Jul Mon–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–5pm	Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape
Date	Location
Lusieri (1754–1821) was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most skilful landscape painters of his generation. In the first half of his career he worked in Rome, Naples and Sicily and after 1800 he worked in Greece, where he was involved in Lord Elgin's still-controversial removal to Britain of the marble frieze from the Parthenon in Athens. This exhibition features the best of Lusieri's surviving work. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Jun–28 Oct Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Exposed 12
Date	Location
Showcase end-of-year photography exhibition from Stevenson College Edinburgh and The University of Abertay Dundee. Students are on hand throughout to discuss their work. Part of the Leith Festival. View full details
13 Jun–22 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5pm	Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh

Expressive Books
Date	Location
Beginner course employing simple printmaking and bookbinding techniques to help you create interesting, recycled and home-made books. Price includes materials and is for the full weekend course. View full details
9 Jun–10 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Family Business
Date	Location
Exhibition celebrating the fifth anniversary of Delicartessen. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
8 Jun–17 Jun Mon–Fri & Sun 11–midnight	Joseph Pearce’s, Edinburgh

Farmscapes: Stuart Franklin, Magnum Photos
Date	Location
Exhibition of photography by Stuart Franklin, displaying the diversity of Scottish agriculture. Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos is best known as the photographer who, in 1989, took the iconic photograph of a lone Chinese student confronting a tank in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; here he captures dramatic and serene moments in landscapes and studies of farms, farmers and farming. View full details
4 Apr–3 Jun Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Date	Location
Based in St John's Church on Princes Street and having emerged from the Fringe six years ago as a festival in its own right, this multi-faith series of events marries creativity and peace-making in a three-week programme of talks, discussions, performances, film screenings, food events, exhibitions and family activities. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Festival of the Erotic Arts
Date	Location
A new festival for Scotland, specialising in all things naughty and arty. The programme is set to include performance, visual arts and crafts, film and more. View full details
22 Jun–24 Jun Times vary	Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Flash of the New Flesh
Date	Location
Film by Polish artist Tomasz Kozak, exploring the subconscious. Part of Annuale. View full details
12 Jun 7pm	Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh

Fluid Potion
Date	Location
A project of 'regurgitation versus representation', realised through drawing, sculpture, painting and video, by Diane Edwards, Sheena Leach, Callum Monteith, Liam Richardson and Alex Allan. Part of Annuale. View full details
17 Jun–24 Jun Fri–Sun noon–5pm	The English Speaking Union, Edinburgh

Frank Boyle: Frank on Football & Boyling Point
Date	Location
Two part exhibition from the Edinburgh Evening News cartoonist: until Thu 10 May there's a display of his football related cartoons, gathered by the Scottish Football Museum and on show in Edinburgh for the first time; then from Fri 11 May the focus shifts to political satire and Boyle's sharp jokes at the expense of politicians in Holyrood, Westminster and beyond. View full details
13 Apr–5 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

From Idea to Exhibition: Creating Treasures from The Queen's Palaces
Date	Location
The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Treasures curator, Deborah Clarke, gives a talk on the process of preparing the latest Queen's Gallery exhibition of treasures. View full details and ticket info
20 Jun 6.30pm	The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

From Sketchbook to Canvas: Drawing On Location and Painting in the Studio
Date	Location
A new course led by experienced tutor and artist Damian Callan, focusing on explorations of the narrative and poetic potential of 'work'. The first sessions are conducted on location, and after considering their sketches at home, students return for days in the studio working them up into painted compositions. View full details
16 Apr–18 Jun Mon 10am–4pm	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh

Gallery of Modern Art Highlights Tours
Date	Location
A tour of selected works in the Gallery of Modern Art's new exhibition, The Sculpture Show. Meet at the main entrance. View full details
9 Jun Sat 2–2.45pm & 3–3.45pm 14 Jul Sat 2–2.45pm & 3–3.45pm 11 Aug Sat 2–2.45pm & 3–3.45pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

Gallery Talk: Dialogue
Date	Location
Artists from Quebec whose work is on show in the Dialogue exhibition discuss their work with art lecturer Lesley Logue. Booking is essential. View full details
2 Jun 2pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

George Jamesone: Scotland's First Portrait Painter
Date	Location
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. View full details
17 Feb 2012–31 Dec 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

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