Edinburgh Art Festival

The Edinburgh Art Festival is a relatively new addition to Edinburgh's August Festivals line-up, but it fills a longtime gap. Visual art somehow seemed obscured by the creative mayhem of the rest of the festival before the galleries clubbed together and launched their own festival within the Edinburgh Festival.

The seventh annual Edinburgh Art Festival will open on Thursday 29 July 2010 running until Sunday 5 September 2010. The Festival, which offers a special summer platform for Edinburgh galleries and artists to showcase specially-curated work, will feature exhibitions in venues across the city along with a programme of associated events, artist talks, workshops, tours and the ever popular Art Late.

All year round Edinburgh offers world class exhibitions from the National Galleries of Scotland to the private art boutique-style galleries, all the way down Dundas Street - the Cork Street of Edinburgh - and dotted around the urban villages of Stockbridge, Broughton and Leith.

Where's the best place to people watch? Or to feel the sand between your toes? What's the best place to take the kids? Or best show to make plans for world domination? Prepare to tackle the Festival with these recommendations.

Few cities undergo such a transformation as Scotland's capital city in the month of August.

The normally easy-going, historic city suddenly jolts to life as thousands of actors, artists,

The Edinburgh Art Festival is to receive £45,000 from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festival Expo Fund to install an

The recently launched programme for the fifth Edinburgh Art Festival includes 50 exhibitions of both local and international artists and groups across Edinburgh Galleries.

The Scottish artist John Bellany, a former Edinburgh College of Art student, many years ago, was at an opening of his work at the Open Eye Gallery today.

Whatever happened to the infighting that the art world is famous for and that, perversely, piques media interest in the public debate about art? Today, it seemed nothing, but a torpor in a turpertine cup as the Edinburgh Art Festival was launched at the Stills Gallery on Cockburn Street