Art Late: Back With A Vengeance

The Edinburgh Art Festival will once again be going out in style with an after hours extravaganza of events tying together the different exhibitions across the city with a programme of tours, performances, live music and film. The festivities start at 5pm with some magic from Ali Cook in the Ingleby Gallery and end late in the evening with a Micachu DJ set at Tamsyn Challenger in Canongate Venture on New Street. Yes, Art Late is back on Thursday 25 August revamped and rejuvenated, and it’s all for free. But you need to book. You can do that here.

This year there is a choice of three tours – two on foot and one on a bus. There’s also a champagne, chaffeur-driven minibus going from Collective around all their offsite festival projects, leaving at 6pm and 7pm. Booking is again essential. All the galleries involved have their own events happening throughout the evening, so you can go direct to them if you are well against the idea of organised tour fun.

There’s also a specially commissioned ambient artwork to download if you want to go it alone. Watch the Water, produced by Coney and Trigger, can be picked up here.

 

TOUR PROGRAMME
Walking Tour One
6pm Leave Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road
6.15pm arrive at Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street
6.45pm arrive at Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place
7.05pm arrive at Bourne Fine Art, 6 Dundas Street
7.45pm arrive at Tamsyn Challenger, Canongate Venture, 5 New Street

Walking Tour Two
6pm Leave Ingleby
6.15pm arrive at City Art Centre, 2 Market Street
6.45pm arrive at Collective, 22-28 Cockburn Street
7.10pm arrive at Stills, 23 Cockburn Street
7.30pm arrive at Tamsyn Challenger

Bus Tour
6pm Leave Ingleby
6.15pm arrive at Sierra Metro, Ground Floor North, 22 West Harbour Road
7pm arrive at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row
8pm arrive at Tamsyn Challenger

GALLERIES
Ingleby Gallery: Mystics or Rationalists?
Open til 7pm
Art Late Launch Event and Ali Cook, dubbed as 'one of the most sought after illusionists on the planet', will be working his magic from 5.15-5.45pm.
Ali Cook's show Principles And Deceptions is at The Gilded Balloon every day at 9.30pm until 29 August.
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Edinburgh Printmakers: Lineage: Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie
Open til 8pm
Studio tour and refreshments provided.

Open Eye Gallery: John Byrne RSA
Open til 7pm
Special tour of the gallery.

Bourne Fine Art: Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture
Open til 8pm
Dr Duncan Thompson discusses 500 years of Scottish portraiture – from Adam de Colone in the 1600s to John Byrne in the 21st century – examining how the art form has altered over the centuries.

City Art Centre: David Mach
Open til 7.45pm
Special one-off tour of gallery and a rare chance to see the exhibition for free.

Collective: Hans Schabus: Remains of the Day
Open til 9pm
A champagne, chauffeur driven, minibus tour of all Collective's festival projects.
The first tour will start at 6pm and the second at 7pm and you will need to book through the venue direct.

Stills: Runaway, Success
Open til 8pm
Special one-off tour of gallery.

Sierra Metro: Carmen Sylva
Open til 8pm
Special one-off of tour as part of the Art Late bus tour.

Inverleith House: Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville
Open til 8pm
Performance of John Cage's Theatre Piece No. 1: A re-enactment of John Cage's 1953 Theatre Piece No 1, produced by Ashleigh Reid.

The Art Late finale:
Tamsyn Challenger: 400 Women
Open til 10pm
In conversation: Artist Tamsyn Challenger and curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, followed by a Q&A session.
In the basement: The first showing in Scotland of Micachu's new live score for Lotte Reiniger’s film Hansel and Gretel (1955) commissioned by and in association with Birds Eye View Films and courtesy of the BFI. With an introduction by Arthur Smith. 
In the playground: Performance by 400 Women collaborator Matthew Cowan; The Bellman, based on the Burryman of South Queensferry, will process from the Royal Mile to the Canongate Venture playground.
The Art Late DJ set: Micachu