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Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2021
Edinburgh Art Festival returns to the city s art spaces this summer with exciting new work (Isaac Julien, Emeka Ogboh, Sean Lynch), retrospectives (Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christine Borland, Karla Black) and the annual Platform showcase Article by Jamie Dunn | 03 Jun 2021
One of the joys of an Edinburgh summer (a typical one anyway) is escaping the hubbub of the Fringe to venture into the city’s many great galleries to soak up the wild and wonderful work at the annual Edinburgh Art Festival.
After the 2020 edition stalled thanks to COVID-19, this year s Edinburgh Art Festival will take place from 29 July to 29 August in a variety of visual art spaces across the city, with an additional online programme of events and digital presentations also planned. The 17th Edinburgh Art Festival will feature over 35 exhibitions and new commissions – some directly address the seismic changes brought about by this past year of pandemic, whi
Archie Brennan (1931-2009), tapestry artist, formative director of Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studio’s modern era, and sometime pop artist of the textile world, was an innovator whose prolific output belied a life spent teaching and promoting tapestry worldwide. Well known amongst tapestry aficionados, his light faded at home when he left Scotland in the 1970s to pursue his passion for tapestry abroad. Innovatively using photographic and mass media for images for his work, including those of Muhammad Ali and Princess Diana, and questioning the notion that a weaver should only copy paintings, he packed up his portable loom and travelled the world, a long way from his Edinburgh origins just half a mile from the Dovecot’s original studios in Corstorphine.
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Library of Exileopened at the British Museum in March and closed ten days later. Then it re-opened and re-closed. And so on… But the public programme hosted by the museum in conjunction with PEN went online and became free. And so many thousands of people heard extraordinary voices talking about exile and translation, migration and literature. There were questions and debate and a sense of a great diaspora of engaged people who would never have bought a ticket for a talk at 6.30pm in Bloomsbury. The last event had people from thirty countries. I find this wonderful. And profoundly hopeful.