Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland, the largest arts festival in the world

An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A festival is an event usually and ordinarily staged by a local community which centers on some unique aspect of that community The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily Visual in nature such as Painting, Photography

Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. Artists' participation in the most important such exhibitions (such as the Venice Biennale) is by invitation, and these exhibitions are organised by internationally recognized curators chosen by a committee of peers. The Venice Biennale (Biennale di Venezia also called in English the "Venice Biennial " is a major Contemporary art exhibition that takes place once These international exhibitions must be distinguished from art fairs, market-oriented gatherings of art dealers and their wares, which have recently emerged as among the most important art-world venues for contemporary art in the present-day super-heated art market.

Leading arts festivals include the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, which is the largest arts festival on Earth, Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide and Festival d'Avignon in Avignon. Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous arts and cultural Festivals which take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. The Adelaide Festival of Arts is an Arts festival held biennially in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual Arts festival held in French city of Avignon. Avignon (/aviɲɔ̃/ in French) ( Provençal: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm is a commune ^[1]

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