Buzz Aldrin's selfie and a bonsai tree in space the week in art

The original selfie-snappers and Azuma Makoto's extraterrestrial plant life, plus the row over the Olympic cauldron design is resolved, and the world's artists flock to Scotland all in your favourite weekly dispatch

Edinburgh art festival
This energetic art festival once again brings commissions, exhibitions and projects to venues all over Edinburgh. This year explores global art, as Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games. Shilpa Gupta, Shannon Te Ao and Emma Rushton are among the artists in Where Do I End and You Begin, a large international group show at the City Art Centre that is the festival's central focus.
Various venues, from 31 July to 31 August. Where Do I End and You Begin is at City Art Centre, Edinburgh, from 1 August until 19 October.

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