Art

On the surface, Manet's The Ham is an innocuous still life... one writer probes beneath the surface of its fatty flesh to find a darker subtext Read more »

Embrace community, reject mega capitalism – we've pulled out some highlights from this year's jam-packed Fair Saturday programme Read more »

In the age of instant images and filter face, Glasgow’s Photoautomat offers up something wildly inconvenient. Photographer Simon Murphy tells us why this clanking Berlin import is about more than looking cool Read more »

The Skinny X RSA Contemporaries awardee Ruthella Dafnis' first solo exhibition shines a light on homelessness, addiction and care experience Read more »

From a hairy animatronic sculpture to a film of Arab queer love, an autumn exhibition at Collective Gallery presents the work of four early-career artists based in Scotland Read more »

It's hard to survive in arts journalism, as The Skinny found out in September when we came close to closing. We spoke to some of our peers within the Scottish arts scene to imagine a better, more robustly funded future for arts journalism in Scotland Read more »