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Smashing Monuments, statues, and collective memory
The UK premiere of Sebastián Díaz Morales’ film Smashing Monuments questions the functions of monuments in our collective memory – but also whether our cities can really meet our everyday needs Read more »| 24 May 2023 -
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Ancestral Meditations: Alberta Whittle interview
Alberta Whittle's create dangerously celebrates a vital and visionary artist whose expansive and generous practice shines a light on some of the most urgent issues of our time Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
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Visions of a Life: Uprooted Visions at Edinburgh Printmakers
With the Conservative government’s vicious anti-immigration policies continuing, a new exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers emphasises the importance of elevating marginalised voices through international collaboration Read more »| 04 May 2023 -
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Art Futures: RSA New Contemporaries 2023
The Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries returns to celebrate the artists and architects who graduated from Scotland’s art schools in 2021 Read more »| 28 Mar 2023 -
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Civic House: A 21st-Century Power Station
A former printing press for Glasgow’s political movements built in the 1920s, Civic House has been shortlisted for a prestigious AJ Retrofit Award after a radical transformation by Agile City in collaboration with Collective Architecture Read more »| 15 Mar 2023 -
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Naming the Money: repatriation and reparations
As Scotland’s museums begin the process of repatriating stolen goods, the absence of discussions around reparative justice is glaringly obvious Read more »| 09 Mar 2023
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Portraits of Home: Matthew Arthur Williams at DCA
Matthew Arthur Williams’ revelatory exhibition Soon Come contemplates meanings of home and how the labour of certain communities is rendered invisible Read more »| 01 Mar 2023 -
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Absolute Truth?: Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡 at Collective, Edinburgh
We meet Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡 to unpack their new exhibition at Collective, which examines Britain’s colonial legacy in Hong Kong Read more »| 03 Feb 2023 -
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Artisanal Excellence: Scottish textiles at Collect
Meet the four textile designers selected to show with Craft Scotland at the Collect contemporary craft and design fair Read more »| 16 Jan 2023 -
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Here & Now: We Are Here Scotland's Creators' Showcase
We reflect on We Are Here Scotland's vital and exciting Creators' Showcase in November featuring work by Zaim Ali, Sagnick Mukherjee, and Isabel Barfod Read more »| 06 Jan 2023 -
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Shop of Horrors: Rachel Maclean's Mimi in Perth
Rachel Maclean discusses her arresting new installation, Mimi, which takes over a disused shopfront on Perth High Street Read more »| 04 Jan 2023 -
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Inspiral Carpets: Elizabeth Price at the Hunterian Art Gallery
The Skinny meets curator Dominic Paterson to unpick Elizabeth Price’s latest exhibition, UNDERFOOT, at the Hunterian Art Gallery Read more »| 13 Dec 2022 -
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Nira Pereg's Patriarchs @ Talbot Rice, Edinburgh
One writer responds to Nira Pereg's beguiling exhibition Patriarchs at Talbot Rice Gallery Read more »| 08 Dec 2022 -
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A Mosaic of Memories: Norman Gilbert at Tramway
We reflect on Norman Gilbert's intimate paintings of his family and the characters of his native Pollokshields Read more »| 17 Nov 2022 -
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Recapping Our Stories Between the Myths and Memories
Stories connect us – through open conversations, a welcoming space, and joyful interactions, the weekender at David Livingstone Birthplace Museum showed exactly that Read more »| 16 Nov 2022