Men: Art Speed Dating Needs You
By . Published 28 January 2011
Artist Oliver Braid has teamed up with The Mutual in an effort to bring more love to Glasgow. Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Mutual will hold a pansexual speed...
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The Mutual Members Show
By . Published 01 December 2010Defined negatively, the Mutual Members Show has been set up to stave off inertia. If it weren’t for the four graduates who first conceived of the fledgling collective, there would...
NWS 2010: Nicolas Party and Catherine Payton
By . Published 29 October 2010New Work Scotland’s winter outing looks to be an eccentric one. Nicolas Party, painter and graduate of The Glasgow School of Art’s MFA programme, is set to do some wall...
Alex Hetherington @ Embassy
By . Published 18 October 2010There’s nothing new under the sun. This seems to be the underlying principle behind Alex Hetherington’s work. He describes his art not without first giving a lengthy preamble that draws...
David Shrigley Book Launch @ Mono, 23 Sep
By . Published 08 September 2010Glasgow is a tiny village in the west coast of Scotland where everyone knows everyone else and pretty much all the inhabitants are in a band with someone who is...
Studio Projects 22 & 23 @ Market Gallery
By . Published 06 September 2010Market Gallery runs an extensive residency programme, showcasing young artists in the east end of Glasgow. For two months this autumn the gallery gives over its two generous spaces to...
Robert Barry: Words and Music @ The Common Guild
By . Published 06 September 2010There is nothing about conceptual art to be scared of. It was developed in the 1960s as an incremental step in the ongoing discussion around the nature of visual art....
Yuck 'n Yum's Annual General Karaoke
By . Published 01 September 2010Yuck ‘n’ Yum is a Dundee based art zine production team who have been in business for nigh on half a decade and have created some 11 issues of their...
MAGAZINE 10 @ Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
By . Published 30 July 2010For many people, visiting Edinburgh during festival season is all about bagpipes, dodgy plays, experimental dance, and literally thousands of flyers extolling the hilarity of the next big comic genius....
Martin Creed @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
By . Published 23 July 2010Martin Creed has a penchant for order. He likes to stack things according to their size, for instance. A stack of chairs, one on top of the other, might not...
Black and White @ David Dale Gallery & Studios
By . Published 22 July 2010Recently set up by embarrassingly young Glasgow graduates, the David Dale Gallery & Studios already looks to be a prominent part of the Scottish art scene. With their recent show...
Markus Thorsen @ Edinburgh Music Library
By . Published 21 July 2010Regular readers may be familiar with the photographs of Markus Thorsen. He’s worked for The Skinny for a while now, and if you’re into gig photography or saw our cover...
Insert Tiara @ SWG3
By . Published 20 July 2010Someone has thought it a good idea to show the work of Michael White and Lila de Magalhaes in an intimate two man show. Both these New Work Scotland veterans...
Shapes and Things @ Sierra Metro
By . Published 19 July 2010Set in a disused testing facility in far off Granton, Edinburgh, Sierra Metro is a not-for-profit, committee-run gallery of growing renown. It offers its generous space to emerging artists to...
Staged @ the City Observatory
By . Published 19 July 2010A terribly important writer once declared that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” I think it is fair to say that old...
Chicks on Speed @ DCA
By . Published 26 May 2010Multidisciplinary and intimidatingly prolific, Chicks on Speed are popping up in Dundee for their first UK solo show...
Call yourself a filmmaker?
By . Published 04 May 2010The fifth edition of the Leith Short Film Festival will this year take place from 10-13 June at Duncan Place and Iso-Lounge in Leith. As in previous years, the event...
Gi picks
By . Published 02 April 2010This year’s Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art has the theme of ‘past, present and future’, which encompasses, well, everything. So before we all start congratulating the board on coming...
Glasgow International Festival of Art: Better World
By . Published 01 April 2010There are dozens of exciting shows happening in Glasgow during Gi. Here at The Skinny we're most excited about Sandy Smith offsite for SWG3
Napier Creative Industries: Film, Photography and Pigeons
By . Published 01 April 2010A Napier Photography and Film student introduces his work
