For his final project, Roth set up surveillance cameras all over his home and studio and filmed his every move for the last months of his life. You can see the 128-screen rig now at the Fruitmarket gallery. Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones says: 'This autumnal kaleidoscope of flickering screens becomes an overwhelming emotional tidal wave' Photograph: Heini Schneebeli
Apart from the video installation, the Roth exhibition at Fruitmarket Gallery is full of books. Notebooks with their pages opened reveal bursts of red ink or spill forth with every idea and fantasy that ever filled the artist's head. Here, Roth's original diaries rightly become works of art Photograph: Dieter Roth Estate
Weaving the Century is the largest tapestry show ever put on by Dovecot Studios, and includes beauties such as this Mickey and Minnie love scene by Paolozzi. You can also see rare airings of tapestries by David Hockney and Paul Gauguin
Photograph: Courtesy of the Whitworth Art Gallery
Every day since 1861, the One O'Clock Gun (shown here by the Time Gun Map from 1879) has fired from Edinburgh Castle. This year, sound artist Susan Philipsz has created site-specific reactions to the gun signal, which can be heard cascading from Calton Hill to Edinburgh Castle every day during the festival at 1pm Photograph: Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
The stellar show of the summer here is Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 at the Scottish National Gallery, where you can feast your eyes on the supercharged yellows of Van Gogh's field and feel his overwhelming reverence for life Photograph: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Philip Guston's late paintings are unique monuments to one man's creative struggle, an artist's life laid disconcertingly bare. This is the first exhibition by the great American artist ever to reach Scotland. At Inverleith House Photograph: Courtesy of the Estate of Philip Guston
Ian Hamilton Finlay combined art and language in provocative and intentionally uneasy ways, as when he recreated a battle on an ironing board in this audio-visual work on show at the Ingleby Gallery Photograph: Carl Heideken
Tim Rollins and KOS make art that assists communities, including teaching literacy, and here pay homage to Black Beauty. Other works at Talbot Rice Gallery take Treasure Island as inspiration
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Dutch artist Melvin Moti takes you right inside the world of minerals in works that combine art and science Photograph: National Museums Scotland
Rachel Mayeri's Primate Cinema is a two-screen projection in which an audience of chimps watch human actors playing chimps. Real life monkey business Photograph: Matt Chaney
On show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The exhibition features a group of 50 works on paper by Munch – the first time they have been shown in the UK
Photograph: Courtesy the Gundersen Collection. Copyright: The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group, BONO, Oslo/DACS, London 2012
An installation by sculptor Tania Kovats sees 100 specimens of water from 100 rivers around the British Isles collected, distilled into sealed museum quality jars and exhibited in a boat house on the bank of the lake at Jupiter Artland Photograph: Courtesy of Jupiter Artland
