Reviews & features: Visual art, Allan Radcliffe

Harry Hill exhibits paintings and sculptures at Edinburgh Art Festival

TV Burp comedian displays other side in My Hobby

The fact that Harry Hill is set to make an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival is not in itself big news. The bald-headed, bespectacled, large-collared comedian has a long association with the world’s largest arts beano, grabbing early raves for his…

Major Picasso show as part of 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival

Enduring appeal of artist considered greatest of the 20th century

A major new exhibition coming to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art explores Picasso's enduring legacy and the British artists he inspired. But why did the UK take so long to get with Pablo’s programme?

Interview: Jeremy Millar on exhibition Mystics or Rationalists?

Artist discusses his contribution to Ingleby Edinburgh Art Festival show

How far do you agree with Sol LeWitt’s comment that ‘conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists’? I think I’d tend to agree: they’re certainly rather more mystics than rationalists. Art isn’t rational, but it can be mystical. What is…

Ian Reddie: Dirt, Glue, Gluedust

The Edinburgh-based artist presents mixed media paintings, screen prints and digital art evoking a primordial world of desert and rock. Art’s Complex, 661 1924, until 5 Sep (not Mon/Tue), free.

Atsuo Okomoto: Faraway Mountain

Japanese stone sculptor presents 12 pieces sculpted from same block

The first UK solo exhibition by Japanese stone sculptor Okomoto showcases the technique of ‘war modoshi’, or splitting and returning, and features 12 pieces sculpted from the same block which can then be pushed together to reform the original piece. The…

More Edinburgh Art Festival highlights 2010

In addition to shows by Gilbert & George, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth and Martin Creed, there are plenty of other highlights within the Edinburgh Art Festival programme. Impressionist Gardens After the hugely inspiring Impressionism and Scotland…

Fifty Edinburgh Fringe shows for a fiver

The economy may be in the stink-hole, but Julia Correia and Allan Radcliffe help stretch your pennies with this round-up of Fringe theatre shows for a fiver

Sitting and Looking showcases furniture design from Jim Partridge, Liz Walmsley and El Ultimo Grito

One of the more eclectic exhibitions in this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival is this group show at Dovecot, curated by internationally acclaimed furniture designers Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley. Alongside work by the pair, who have worked together for…

Visual Art hitlist

Agnes Martin, Alan Davie, Cerith Wyn Evans with Throbbing Gristle, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Henry Coombes, Agnes Martin, Dani Marti, Thomas Hirschhorn