Even though it’s Chinese New Year and Chinese lanterns adorn Albert Square, Manchester City Gallery’s newest exhibition of work from East Asia is anything but ‘Oriental.’ The closest thing to...
What a difference a voice makes as Aberdeen's 'angel' spreads word on city centre proposals
There's trouble afoot in Aberdeen, as various groups have designs on the future of Union Terrace Gardens. The Skinny attempts to make sense of the debate.
Away from the clamour of other, bigger, metropolitan art sites, Dundee is proving more than capable of holding its own. A thriving, close-knit scene of artists and creative types is...
The saying goes that when a recession hits and stock is down, skirt hemlines go up. So too, it would appear, do the motivations and aspirations of the nation's newest...
To get your art noticed, sometimes you have to showcase it yourself instead of taking the traditional route. Artist-run spaces across the country have been proving this for several years...
In celebration of a milestone tenth birthday, we've taken a closer look at the Collective Gallery's visionary artist-development programme to see exactly what everyone's raving about
COLIN GRAY: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH STREETLEVEL PHOTOWORKS, TRONGATE 103, GLASGOW Til 23 Jan A highly recommended, very moving series of photographs forming the final stages of Gray’s Parents...
A new project sends artists into prisons to teach inmates how to paint with spray paint. The dailies have been up in arms at the plans, so we thought we'd...
MARTIN BOYCE - NO REFLECTIONS LA BIENNALE, VENICE UNTIL 22 NOV Last chance to hop that plane to Venice for the art Olympics. Support Team Scotland! LUKE FOWLER MODERN INSTITUTE,...
A nation-wide talent search has brought us the new art stars as defined by Charles Saatchi. ECA graduate Richard Cook, one of the lucky few to make it to the...
First and foremost, Frieze Art Fair is about looking at people. It is a warren of voyeurism. The art – glitzy, unaffordable, and on the whole, mediocre – merely facilitates...
A solo show in the Modern Institute at only 24? We take a tour around Alex Dordoy's new exhibition, barely concealing our envy.
NEW WORK SCOTLAND 2009 COLLECTIVE, EDINBURGH 10 OCT – 31 JAN It’s back, and it’s bigger than ever. This year’s emerging artists are Katharina Kiebacher, Anna Tanner, Michael White, Rachel...
Discussed for 20 years, planned for 9, Trongate 103 brings together a host of Glasgow's East End art institutions under one specially designed roof....
It is a widely known yet little discussed fact that most art school graduates are going to end up working a job that has nothing to do with art. A...
Best known as a political cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe is really a very accomplished artist in many genres. Happily wired up to a PowerPoint show, Scarfe was able to show images...
The well ‘oiled’ public was out in supportive mass for the opening night of the Aberdeen Degree Show in the stunning modernity of the Garthdee campus. Gray’s annual support by...
The Venice Biennale: the daddy of all Biennales, the Olympics of Art. Rosamund West finds an oasis of calm in the Scottish pavilion...
1= EDINBURGH DEGREE SHOW / GLASGOW DEGREE SHOW 13 – 23 JUN / 13 – 20 JUN ECA, EDINBURGH; GSA, GLASGOW Displaying the now traditional lack of bias, we place...
