The Edinburgh Festival is one of Europe’s great cultural institutions. But it didn’t include visual art. After years of griping, a visual art festival will now be included. “The new Edinburgh Art Festival has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes of despair. It was absurd that a festival founded in 1947 on the principle of showing, as the Lord Provost put it at the time, ‘all the best in music, drama and the visual arts’, should ignore an entire medium’.”