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5 star shows

• Susan Philipsz: Timeline (9 Aug 2012)
  Other-worldly chorale from Turner Prize winner
• Ian Hamilton Finlay: Twilight Remembers (6 Aug 2012)
  Outstanding overview of work by a remarkable artist

4 star shows

• Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape (7 Sep 2012)
  Watercolour landscapes with photorealist sensibilities
• Craig Coulthard - Forest Pitch (3 Sep 2012)
  Artist Coulthard creates a full-size football pitch in the Borders as part of the Cultural Olympiad
• Soviet Grand Designs (30 Aug 2012)
  Surprising exhibition of art created under suppression
• Garage (17 Aug 2012)
  Off-piste, enjoyable compendium of grassroots art
• Jock Mcfadyen: the Ability to Cling (17 Aug 2012)
  Small but revealing exhibition of paintings and sculptures
• Phenotype Genotype (phg) (17 Aug 2012)
  Treasure trove of avant garde works
• Carolee Schneemann: Remains to be Seen (9 Aug 2012)
  Fascinating retrospective from the iconic artist
• The Blind (7 Aug 2012)
  Stunningly powerful outdoors multimedia spectacle
• 7x7th Street (4 Aug 2012)
  Interactive sounds sculptures create a musical promised land
• Roderick Buchanan: Legacy (29 Jul 2012)
  Feature-length film installation exploring both sides of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
• Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 (28 Jul 2012)
  Extraordinary exploration of Symbolism and landscape painting
• World Press Photo 2012 exhibition visits Edinburgh (23 Jul 2012)
  A photo essay of the world, richly deserving of the term ‘definitive’

3 star shows

• Ilana Halperin: We Form Geology (30 Aug 2012)
  Travelling Gallery, various locations around Scotland, Aug-Dec 2012
• John Bellany at 70 (17 Aug 2012)
  Showcase of familiar images from the Port Seton artist
• Art & Language (10 Aug 2012)
  Intriguing but ultimately impenetrable overview of conceptual movement
• Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge (10 Aug 2012)
  Casting light on an Edinburgh landmark
• We Are All Ufo-nauts (10 Aug 2012)
  Subtly curated exploration of the uncanny
• Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - The Black Spot (9 Aug 2012)
  Energetic and honest response to great works of literature
• Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes (7 Aug 2012)
  Immersive monologue-cum-life-drawing-class
• Watch it! (7 Aug 2012)
  Small-screen addiction writ large with dance, theatre and visual trickery
• Cheer Up! It’s Not the End of the World (6 Aug 2012)
  Apocalypse images and tormented childhood dreams from Gordon Cheung, Damien Hirst and more
• Dieter Roth: Diaries (6 Aug 2012)
  Moving and sensitive, if frustrating, insight into Roth’s final days
• Rachel Mayeri: Primate Cinema - Apes as Family (6 Aug 2012)
  Dual screen video installation fails to create monkey magic
• George Leslie Hunter: A Life in Colour (29 Jul 2012)
  Comprehensive survey of the work of Rothesay-born colourist
• Philip Guston (1913-1980): Late Paintings (29 Jul 2012)
  Late work by renowned US artist in Scotland for the first time
• Weaving the Century (28 Jul 2012)
  One hundred years of tapestry from the Dovecot weavers
• Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from the Gunderson Collection (23 May 2012)
  Extended introduction to troubled Norwegian painter