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Bridget Riley reviewed by The Telegraph's Mark Hudson

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Introduction to NOW 5, the latest exhibition in our series of contemporary art shows

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Antony Gormley's 6 TIMES returns to Edinburgh

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How to make a Portrait

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Say it with flowers: the meaning of a rose

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Going global: How High-Steppers travelled the world

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Turner and the Poetics of Landscape

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THE WORK OF ART

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Thomas Annan

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A Portrait of the Artist

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(Untitled) Butcher Boys

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Hill & Adamson

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Lee Miller

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Phoebe Anna Traquair

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The Two Roberts

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The Glasgow Boys

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Joan Eardley

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F.C.B Cadell

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Arthur Melville

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The Etching Printer - William Strang, 1859 - 1921
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