The artist Richard Wright peers down from the west stairwell of the Dean Gallery, which used to house Thomas Hamilton's Dean Orphan Hospital. Making the most of its dramatic setting, the filigree wall painting by the winner of last year's Turner prize is a new permanent addition to the gallery
Photograph: Angela Catlin
Using pre-recorded CCTV footage, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth's video installation turns the City Observatory into a digital camera obscura. Produced by the Collective Gallery, Staged won one of three EAF Expo commissions designed to promote emerging Scottish artists
Photograph: Steve Bradbury
Corrosive force yields a vision of ethereal beauty in Salvador Dalí's Tête Raphaëlesque éclatée (exploding Raphaelesque head). The painting forms part of the Dean Gallery's major summer exhibition, Another World, which coincides with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's 50th anniversary celebrations. The exhibition showcases the Dean Gallery's outstanding collections of surrealist and dadaist art
Photograph: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, on loan from a private collection
Lavish photographs of William Wegman's canine muse Fay and her offspring are on display at City Arts Centre in an exhibition that focuses on the photographer's beloved Weimaraners
© William Wegman, courtesy of the artist
Water lilies before Monet made them his own. The American painter Charles Courtney Curran is among the less familiar figures included in a stunning international exhibition at the National Gallery complex. Entitled Impressionist Gardens, the show brings together works by Monet, Pissaro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley
Photograph: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J Terra Collection, Chicago
Nature and art meld in this work by the American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell (1925-1992). The painting is exhibited in Inverleith House, which affords sweeping views of the city centre from the top of Edinburgh's botanical gardens
© Estate of Joan Mitchell, courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read, New York
Inspired by a 15th-century tapestry depicting a pair of lovers pursuing a stag through a forest, this work by the Marises is part of an exhibition at Stills. The show spans the last 20 years of the Glasgow-based artists' practice in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, drawing, sound and photography
Photograph: Courtesy of the artists
Forest 1 and Forest 2 (2008), fashioned out of a single block of stone using ancient Japanese stone-carving techniques, are part of sculptor Atsuo Okomoto's first solo show in the UK
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
Layers on layers of graphite in subtle gradations of white, grey and black adorn the Ingleby Gallery in Brazilian artist Iran do Espirito Santo's minimalist wall drawings, such as this one, En Passant 3 (2010)
Photograph: Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery
An artist's impression of the marble steps spiralling down the dilapidated conduit linking Edinburgh's old and new towns, the Scotsman Steps. Commissioned for the 2010 Edinburgh art festival alongside Creed's solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, this new public sculpture will be built into the city's very fabric
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and the Fruitmarket Gallery