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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ReviewsHalf Real @ The Hanover Project, Preston
Half Real brings together an international group of creative practitioners exploring and working within the intersection between art and videogames. Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsAnother Minimalism @ Fruitmarket Gallery
With Another Minimalism, The Fruitmarket Gallery conducts a broad enquiry into the Light and Space art movement without drily staying within art historical boundaries, looking towards contemporary practitioners and a continuing and live line of influence. Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsFlat Death @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
The sky is grey over Liverpool. On the road outside Open Eye a car drives over an already dead pigeon. His body is partially flattened but there are still st... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsMerlin James @ CCA
Merlin James' major career-spanning exhibition in its very form experiments with the conventions of the late stage painter, and continues to enquire into the possibilities of the medium Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ReviewsMatisse: Works to Know by Heart @ Tate Liverpool
As the physical effects of age take hold, an artist’s work must necessarily shift and change accordingly. In 1914, at the age of 72, Henri Matisse unde... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
ArtChristopher MacInnes @ Generator Projects
Christopher MacInnes' Small Gate Infinite Field is well-executed take on the material conditions for digital existence. Read more »| 14 Jan 2016
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ReviewsDelaying Tactics @ House for an Art Lover
Birthe Jorgensen's group show makes good use of the space and includes interesting work, but at times misses the mark. Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsEnrico David @ The Hepworth, Wakefield
I am standing face to face with a tip-toeing bronze figure. Its bodily length, hands behind back, is leaning against the gallery wall, and it seems to be lis... Read more »| 08 Jan 2016 -
ReviewsMatthew Darbyshire @ Manchester Art Gallery
An article in the Independent on Sunday, found in a glass-fronted notice board in the entrance to Matthew Darbyshire’s An Exhibition for Modern Living,... Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
ReviewsSafe @ HOME, Manchester
The resounding question: "Are you allergic to the 21st century?" HOME has responded to Todd Haynes’ thought-provoking 1995 film, Safe, providing artis... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
ReviewsLuc Tuymans @ Talbot Rice Gallery
For his first Scottish exhibition, revered Belgian artist Luc Tuymans displays his own paintings of canaries and a stool alongside two portraits by Sir Henry... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
ReviewsTania Kovats: Evaporation @ MOSI, Manchester
“My job is to complicate things, to make things beautiful. The facts only mean things if they're also given imaginative space.” At a panel event... Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsAi Weiwei @ Royal Academy of Art, London
It’s Friday 23 October and I'm sat on a train from Manchester to London; I'm travelling to see an exhibition of work by China’s most recognisable... Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsAdrian Morris @ 42 Carlton Place
Casual exhibition space 42 Carlton Place mount an exhibition of Adrian Morris, with work from the 60s and spanning 30 years. There's a sharp sense of economy, with the least means allowing surprising variation and interest. Read more »| 01 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsMaster Rock on BBC Radio
Maria Fusco writes for three voices in Master Rock, a performance originally transmitted on BBC Radio and now available online. Read more »| 01 Nov 2015