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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ReviewsLeonora Carrington @ Tate Liverpool
When the featured artist of an exhibition is a Lancashire-born Mexican surrealist, you can almost guarantee you'll encounter some wonderful weirdness. It's s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsEastern Exchanges @ Manchester Art Gallery
The scale and scope of Eastern Exchanges is imposing, with three vast galleries filled with quintessential East Asian works of craft, art, fabric and built s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
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Eat Abstractly @ Mary Mary
Mary Mary showcases a breadth of international artists in a photography centred exhibition. Across the 18 works that make up Eat Abstractly is a dispers... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
ReviewsLiz Larner @ The Modern Insitute
An ambulance is pulled up outside the Modern Institute and two medics are attending to the fallout of a recent street brawl. Stepping from the pavement ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
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Dundee Degree Show 2015: Down the Rabbit Hole
This year's Duncan of Jordanstone fine art graduates display a resurgent interest in traditional techniques, twisting their uses to create something refreshingly unique Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
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Filip Markiewicz @ Luxembourg Pavilion, Venice
During the opening weeks of the Venice Biennale, the likelihood of stumbling upon a vernissage – the preferred term for a private view – simply b... Read more »| 19 May 2015
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FestivalsGraham Fagen @ Palazzo Fontana, Venice
Entra nel Giardino E dimentica la Guerra. Or, Come into the Garden and Forget about the War. So entreats a green neon sign at the entrance to the Palazzo Fon... Read more »| 13 May 2015 -
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What Remains @ Generator
Literally off-kilter, Hans K. Clausen sets the tone of What Remains with a skip hanging at a strange angle in middle of Generator’s exhibition spa... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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Li Binyuan: Social Behaviours @ CFCCA, Manchester
Social Behaviours is Li Binyuan’s first solo exhibition in the UK and it certainly makes an impact. The majority of the Beijing-based artist’s wo... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
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Hugo Canoilas @ Cooper Gallery
The reading list – slipped in the middle of the handout for Hugo Canoilas' gallery-saturating exhibition Someone a long time ago, now&nb... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
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De Profundis: From the Depths @ Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
De Profundis: From the Depths, currently on show at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, is a solo exhibition from photographer and filmmaker Pete Regan that... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
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At Every Fading of the Stars @ Tramway
James Rigler reinvents the classic perception of architecture and ceramics in his new show At Every Fading of the Stars. The a... Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
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Superior Goods and Household Gods @ Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Superior Goods and Household Gods is part of Wonder Women 2015, Manchester’s annual feminist festival, under the banner of which fall exhibitions, even... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
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Cornelia Parker @ Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Upon entering the newly revitalised Whitworth, it can initially be unclear where Cornelia Parker’s retrospective is actually located. There is just so ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
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RSA New Contemporaries 2015
A spectacle-laden opening. Deb Marshall’s sound installation Kairos I thunders over the tourist traffic of Princes St, while upon entry, Erin Fairley&r... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015