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  • William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity

    The first UK institutional show dedicated to Kentridge’s sculpture is joyfully approachable while maintaining its critical bite, as we are drawn into his creative imagination

  • Edinburgh Art Festival 2025

    Guy Oliver’s laugh-out-loud film about being a teenager, Aqsa Arif’s exploration of life as a refugee on a Glasgow council estate and a poignant look at artist John Bellany, who battled alcoholism and ill health, are just some of the…

  • Making Waves – Breaking Ground

    With 11 artists and more than 100 works, the wonders of the natural world are stunningly brought to life in this year’s Space to Breathe summer art exhibition, in collaboration with Purdy Hicks Gallery

  • Lifeblood – Edvard Munch

    A thoughtfully curated exploration of the convergence of art and health in the work of Munch, a man very much invested in a modernising medical world

  • Pablo Picasso: The Code of Painting

    This show draws international attention to a vibrant new art space in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. But does it justify revived interest in the artist’s later works?

  • Border Crossings: Ten Scottish Masters of Modern Art

    This show pays homage to the remarkable legacy of 10 artists who left their Scottish homeland to achieve success, becoming immersed in international developments in art in London, Paris and New York

  • Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely: Myths and Machines

    She was an aristocrat sculpting voluptuous female figures, he a working-class maker of scrap metal kinetic sculptures – but their tumultuous personal relationship and creative collaborations endured

  • Millet: Life on the Land

    A fine-tuned pocket survey celebrates the influential French realist painter, who imbued scenes of rural life with monumental stature

  • For Children: Art Stories since 1968

    A skating ramp, an invitation to paint the floor, a glowing tent-like structure – this ambitious joyful exhibition carves out a place in art history for work made for children

  • Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-71– book review

    A thorough introduction to and overview of a fascinating artist who has been far too overlooked. The focus on this decade brings to the fore Scott’s paradoxical sculptures and horizontal Brâncuși-ism