Reviews
The latest exhibitions, festivals and art shows reviewed by The Skinny’s art writers. You’ll find reviews of art exhibitions, analysis of artist and curators' choices, and expert insight on Scotland's best art exhibitions.
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Totems of Today
After hosting artists from Ironbbratz studios for its first few shows, Studio 41 sets out to re-invigorate Glasgow’s curating scene. Will Nothing Be Un... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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John Cage @ The Hunterian Museum and Gallery
John Cage is primarily known for his work as an avant-garde pioneer of experimental music, perhaps his most notorious composition being his 1952 ‘silen... Read more »| 18 Mar 2011 -
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Sue Tompkins and Claude Cahun @ Inverleith House
Sue Tompkins' work seems made for the space. It sits silent and thinking in the domestic cathedral heart of the Botanical Gardens that is Inverleith House. I... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
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Anni Albers @ Dovecot Studios
Exhibitions that display a seminal artist alongside the works they have since inspired always make for interesting fare, and with an artist as revolutionary ... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
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White Knight @ Collective Gallery
The gallery space has always implicitly challenged the meaning of true communal property. Alex Gross and Anna Mields’ film, Farbenlehre, at The Collect... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
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Jean-Marc Bustamante @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Bustamante’s first exhibition in Scotland marries two strands of his career – his works of photography and sculpture from 1978-97 and his sculptu... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011
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Craig Murray-Orr @ Ingleby Gallery
Before viewing Craig Murray-Orr’s solo show at the Ingleby gallery, there is a fact everyone must know: Murray-Orr was born in New Zeland, but has spen... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Harun Farocki @ CCA
There were a few who thought the CCA a lost cause. A series of obscure shows that persistently fell short of what Glasgow’s foremost contemporary art i... Read more »| 21 Feb 2011 -
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August Sander @ The Dean Gallery
Not content with just one exhibition of great German art in Edinburgh – that of Rosmarie Trockel at the Talbot Rice Gallery – The Dean Gallery pr... Read more »| 18 Feb 2011 -
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Rosemarie Trockel @ Talbot Rice
Talbot Rice Gallery eschews Rosemarie Trockel's multi-faceted work in film, sculpture and painting and begins with a meticulous survey of her considerable us... Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
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SALONVERT @ Embassy, Until 30 Jan
‘Eclectic’ is an apt description of SALONVERT at the Embassy. Like all members shows, it offers an array of medium and messages. Oil paintings, d... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
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Hannah James @ Rhubaba
Hannah James’s work functions beneath a guise of opacity. Her oeuvre consists of deliberately bad camera angles and hazy images. The past year of her p... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
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Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art @ City Art Centre
Installing a contemporary art exhibition that self-professedly aims to “rediscover highland art” is certainly a risky strategy. After all, when s... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
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John Goto @ Edinburgh Printmakers
John Goto’s exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers may be small but it certainly evokes an intense response from the viewer. His collection of Mosaic... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
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Living Today @ Mackintosh Gallery, GSA
Sporting a title of almost limitless possibility, the group show Living Today at the Mackintosh Museum assembles works by contemporary artists who explore as... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011