Edinburgh Art Festival, Brussels Flower Carpet, and Toulouse-Lautrec's Intimate Portrait
The Edinburgh Art Festival is currently underway, offering a varied lineup that includes Katie Paterson at the Collective Gallery on Calton Hill, along with pieces by Del LaGrace Volcano and Eva Rothschild throughout the city until 30 August. In Brussels, a trippy interpretation of Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa is being constructed from 500,000 dahlias, set to be dismantled on 16 August. Meanwhile, the National Gallery in London features Zurbarán's works until 23 August, alongside Toulouse-Lautrec's 'Woman Seated in a Garden' (1891). Additional exhibitions can be found at the Holburne in Bath with Glenn Brown, the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle hosting the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award, and 'Staging the Baroque' at Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
Key facts
- Edinburgh Art Festival runs until 30 August, featuring Katie Paterson at Collective Gallery's observatory, and Del LaGrace Volcano and Eva Rothschild in other venues.
- Brussels' Grand-Place features a flower carpet of Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa made from half a million dahlias, covering 1,680 sqm, to be swept away on 16 August.
- Zurbarán exhibition at National Gallery, London, is on until 23 August.
- Toulouse-Lautrec's 'Woman Seated in a Garden' (1891) is on view at the National Gallery, London.
- Glenn Brown exhibition at Holburne, Bath, until 6 September.
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, until 5 September.
- Staging the Baroque at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, until 31 October.
- Three Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers nearly £150,000.
Entities
Artists
- Katie Paterson
- Del LaGrace Volcano
- Eva Rothschild
- Francisco de Zurbarán
- Glenn Brown
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Iris Murdoch
- David Hockney
- Betty Freeman
- Francis Bacon
- George Dyer
- Isabel Nolan
- Hermione Carline
- Banksy
- Christine Borland
- Katsushika Hokusai
- John Vanbrugh
- Gabrielle
Institutions
- Edinburgh Art Festival
- Collective Gallery
- National Gallery, London
- Holburne Museum
- Laing Art Gallery
- Castle Howard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Grand-Place, Brussels
Locations
- Edinburgh
- United Kingdom
- Calton Hill
- Brussels
- Belgium
- London
- Bath
- Newcastle
- Yorkshire
- Montmartre
- France