- Witches and Wicked Bodies exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Richard Wright, Stairwell Project at ditto
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Richard Wright has used a Renaissance flower motif to enhance the space over the staircase |
- Paolozzi's studio recreated at ditto
- Gabrielle Kieller Library at ditto
- Charles Jenks' earthwork outside ditto
- Daughters of Decayed Tradesmen (Christine Borland and Brody Condon) at New Calton Burial Ground
- Old Calton Burial Ground (mausoleum of David Hume figures in Jenny Erdal's The missing shade of blue)
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Mara Menzies and Isla Menzies as Susi and Chuma, faithful companions of explorer David Livingstone |
- "I knew a man called Livingstone" by Toto Tales Productions at National Library of Scotland - and the Livingstone exhibition there
- display commemorating the 200th anniversary of publication of Pride and Prejudice at ditto; also the John Murray archive
- one of the mysterious books is on display at the library -
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"Mystery book sculpture" left anonymously at National Library of Scotland |
- Peter Liversidge at Ingleby Gallery - and his "Hello" flags dotted around town
- "The Principle of Uncertainty" - a quantum mechanics lecture (!) performed by Andrea Brunello
-Peter Doig at Scottish National Gallery - and many discoveries there, poetic films by Margaret Tait, and Pietro Testa's drawings
- talk by naturalist Mark Cocker and photographer David Tipling, who have published "Birds and People", which is definitely on my wish list -
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430,000 words, photos from 39 countries, contributions from 81 nationalities - and it only took 6 years... |
- another Literary Festival talk, by George Goodwin, about the battle of Flodden in 1513 and the personalities who shaped Europe at that time
-"Beethoven for Breakfast" concert, followed by coffee and pastry, with a wonderful of the castle
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Some of the 100 multiples, aggrandised by plinths |
-many art exhibitions at Summerhall, including Lawrence Weiner's "100 Multiples", the Richard Demarco archive, Kaori Matsumura, and Fiona Banner's "The Vanity Press", and a multiscreen installation by Michael Nyman
- a five-screen film called Bonanza
- "Amazing Amber" at the National Museum of Scotland
- Ilana Halperin, The Library, at ditto - a small but intensely thoughtful show, beautifully displayed
- many, many more things at that museum, including the musical light show that constitutes the striking of the Millennium Clock (every hour on the hour)
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Rum goings on in the old dissection room |
- and what we mainly went for - "This Side of Paradise" by Dudendance, with strangely shaped bodies, darkness and mystery, mist and shadows, eerie lighting and sound.... film clip and proper pix are here
2 comments:
That is a lot of visiting Margaret. I have 1.5 days in Edinburgh this weekend, and this has given me lots of possibilities,,,,,,, but I have to be back in London on Tuesday.
I'm exhausted just reading the list! I am looking forward to getting up there once the brouhaha is over, to see the Peter Doig amongst other things.
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