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For a few fleeting moments last night, I was one of the beautiful people, rubbing shoulders with Tracy Emin at Edinburgh's most exciting addition to the modern art gallery scene...

Art Late was the closing fling of the Edinburgh Art Festival which I admit I've paid no attention to in the crazy mix of other things I could go and see instead. So various of the galleries threw their doors open from 6 - 9pm last night so the beautiful people could go decorate their floor space.

I could have tried a bit harder but we only made it round 3 galleries - Stills (an extraordinary giant bookcase where visitors are invited to 'interact' with the books - which surely means read them), the Collective (a lovely almost pop art style exhibition themed around what an alien visiting our society might make of it) and this newest addition, the Ingleby.

Now this is certainly a gallery worth a visit. Aside from the fact that Tracy was propping up the wall, they had some work from David Austen of whom I had never heard because I'm not cool enough but now hanker for some of his prints. And also from Kay Rosen. Also never heard of her as I am not cool enough but she did some pretty fun stuff too which is well worth checking out. That is her work above.

Much more my cup of tea than the terrible collection of sticks and stones that Alan dragged us along to last year...