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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ReviewsMetamorphosis of Japan After the War @ Open Eye Gallery
Metamorphosis opens with an image of the sun that shone above photographer Hiroshi Hamaya’s home in Niigata around noon on August 15, 1945. War was off... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsPlaytime @ Cornerhouse, Manchester
The first time I visited Playtime, the last exhibition ever to be mounted at Cornerhouse (before it moves to its new HOME), it was the opening weekend last N... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsFutureproof @ Street Level Photoworks
In the Futureproof mix this year there is a fair whack of portraiture, yet the strongest work comes from the experimental projections of Jane Beran. Beran's ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
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Craig Mulholland @ Queens Park Railway Club
Craig Mulholland pairs high-finish works with looping atmospheric electro audio for Suspended Intervals in Queens Park Railway Club. Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
ReviewsVictoria Morton @ The Modern Institute
Seeing the small flyer for Victoria Morton’s show in Aird’s Lane, without any sense of scale the shiny reproduction gives the sense that the work... Read more »| 07 Jan 2015 -
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Art from Elsewhere @ GoMA, Glasgow
Hayward Touring have two major exhibitions currently making the rounds in the UK. The first, Listening, explores the act of listening through 17 contemporary... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015
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Transmitting Andy Warhol @ Tate Liverpool
Rather than focusing on a particular genre of Warhol’s immense output, the packed Transmitting Andy Warhol exhibition includes more than 100 works and ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
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Alasdair Gray: Sphere of Influence II @ The Reid Gallery
As part of the Alasdair Gray season, Glasgow School of Art have mounted in their Reid gallery a small selection of works by Alasdair Gray, which is then lite... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
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Trip Advisor: How Not to do a Northwest Christmas Art Marathon
One weekend, 30-odd shows, twinkling lights, a turkey dinner, crackers cracked with a partner in crime and... gin, a whole lot of cheery festive gin. That was the plan for the Christmas art section of The Skinny. And it seemed like a Really Good Idea... Read more »| 12 Dec 2014 -
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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age @ Barbican, London
We don’t often do reviews of London shows but sometimes the occasion warrants it. Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age r... Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
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The Sensory War @Manchester Art Gallery
A real gem in the WW1 creative commemorations this year comes from The Sensory War, on show at Manchester Art Gallery until February 2015. This group exhibit... Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
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Elizabeth Corkery @ Telfer Gallery
Elizabeth Corkery’s exhibition plays on the surrounding warm coloured MDF floor and other building materials that are exposed in the Telfer gallery, th... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
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Tim Hecker @ Stereo
Björk intermission music is gradually silenced by what sounds like a long electric guitar note. With only accidental light remaining, the aural takes ab... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
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¡Viva la Revolution! Cuban Revolution posters at Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art's exhibition of Cuban Revolution Posters was poignant, beautiful and raised issues of contemporary political communication Read more »| 10 Nov 2014 -
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Gregor Wright @ CCA
Is it weird to say the dinosaurs were down on their luck when the meteor hit? Prehistory and its misfortune come into contact in Gregor Wright’s Dinosa... Read more »| 10 Nov 2014