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Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville, Inverleith House, Edinburgh

When entering the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Edinburgh’s Inverleith House – the first big UK show of the artist in 30 years – you are faced immediately with a polka-dot purple pig, wearing a hint of a perky grin.

The pig – cast from a real stuffed pig – sports a saddle composed of dozens of neckties; swirly, dotted, striped and every other pattern under the sun.