Art festival in good shapes

SOME of the top names in contemporary art are to be part of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF), which unveiled its eighth programme last night.

Sculptors Anish Kapoor and David Mach will be joined by Robert Rauschenberg and Tony Cragg, and many others, for the festival which runs from August 4 to September 4.

The festival will also see the opening of Martin Creed's revamped Scotsman Steps and a new temporary pavilion in St Andrew Square.

Other exhibitions include the Northern Renaissance at the Queen's Gallery.