Art of the city

Now in its fifth year, Edinburgh Art Festival brings together exhibitions by major names and new talents, in venues ranging from the National Galleries to the city streets.

Highlights of this year's programme include a 20-year retrospective of English enfant terrible Tracey Emin at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, six major works by highly acclaimed Canadian duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, and Richard Hamilton's Protest Pictures at Inverleith House in the botanic gardens.

A new exhibition space in Musselburgh, former fishing net factory Eskmills, is opening for the festival and will house work by a diverse collection of 14 artists, and a derelict warehouse will become The Grey Gallery and play host to an exhibition by installation artist Richard Wilson, who's perhaps best known for selling Charles Saatchi a thousand gallons of used sump oil.

The festival stretches across the city – Big Things on the Beach involves art in the gardens of private properties in Portobello, and Advocates’ Close off the bustling Royal Mile will be the site of a series of works collected as Edinburgh Close Up.

Edinburgh Art Festival runs from July 31 to August 31.