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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Jean Muir @ National Museum of Scotland
Though perhaps not as instantly recognizable outside the fashion industry as her contemporary, Barbara ‘Biba’ Hulanicki, designer Jean Muir&rsquo... Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
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Langlands + Bell @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Having spent the preceding week building up our critical stamina by bench-pressing the hardback big-print version of Gombrich's History of Art, The Skinny gl... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
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UNNATURALHISTORIE: Douglas Gordon @ Le Palais des Papes, Avignon
Our roving art reviewer Andrew Cattanach kicks off his coverage of the contemporary Grand Tour with a show by a familiar face on the Glasgow art scene. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
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Neville Rae @ Sierra Metro Review
Neville Rae is the artist lucky enough to have the inaugural show of Sierra Metro, the new gallery housed in a disused warehouse in Granton. The work... Read more »| 20 Nov 2008 -
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Alex Frost @ Sorcha Dallas
The first gallery is sparse, containing only two works: a wall-hung ceramic mosaic of a cereal that claims to lower cholesterol, and, on a column in the cent... Read more »| 19 Nov 2008 -
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Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton @ Ingleby Gallery
On the floor of the Ingleby's Gallery 2 lies a spunk-like trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition,... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008
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Gregor Laird @ Q! Gallery
A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year's Glasgay!, ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Ernst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
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Lila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
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RSA Research Exhibition
Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Acade... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
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Emergent Artists: Christy Cole And Manu Kurewa
Of the hundreds of artists that step out of its doors each summer, Glasgow School of Art chooses to bring a couple back every now and again and showcase thei... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Kate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
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Art Late @ Stills, 28 Aug
The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008