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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ReviewsConflict and Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture @ The Hepworth, Wakefield
A large leather phallic torpedo-like object hangs in the centre of the Hepworth Gallery. The all-consuming matte black colour is both dead and alive. I don&r... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
ReviewsMen Who Like Women Who Smell of Their Jobs @ John Rylands Library, Manchester
Spread across two corners of the John Rylands Library, and as abbreviated as the micro fiction that it celebrates, Men Who Like Women Who Smell of Their... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
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ATM14: ReMix @ Bury Sculpture Centre
A plane hangs defiantly upward at the heart of Bury Sculpture Centre’s lofty exhibition space. Nearby televisions gurgle an asylum song that echoes the... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
ReviewsManchester Contemporary 2014 @ Old Granada Studios, Manchester
Now in its fifth edition, Manchester Contemporary took up residence this last weekend in its new home at Old Granada Studios. An invitational fair, the Conte... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries @ World Museum, Liverpool
Liverpool’s World Museum is a funny place to hold Bloomberg New Contemporaries. You are greeted by a waving man in a cuddly globe costume. Googly-eyed ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
ReviewsGego. Line as Object @ Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
In 1966, Gego gave a talk at the Tamarind Lithography workshop in California. In the draft for this, currently on display as part of a retrospective at the H... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014
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Object Recognition: Mishka Henner and David Oates @ Sale Waterside Arts Centre
‘There is no truth,’ Gustave Flaubert once wrote, ‘only perception.’ Exploring David Oates and Mishka Henner’s intriguing exhib... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
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Internet Curtains @ Tramway
There’s an absence of straightforward flatness that comes up across the works in Internet Curtains. Iain Hetherington’s depiction of a Commonweal... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
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Open Dialogues @ RSA
Featuring six newly distinguished names as an ode to New Contemporaries' six years in existence, the Royal Scottish Academy teams up with GENERATION to deliv... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsCathy Wilkes @ Tramway
As part of the GENERATION series, Cathy Wilkes has curtailed the gigantic venue of Tramway 2 to create an intimately sensorial environment. Introve... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
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Ghostie! – Rob Chavasse @ The Royal Standard, Liverpool
The Royal Standard (TRS) have split their Biennial exhibition between two spaces this year: the regular ‘back building’ and a new space on the fl... Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
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Claude Parent: La colline de l'art @ Tate Liverpool
I have never heard anyone laugh in the Wolfson Gallery before, not even a chuckle. Until now. I’m watching three girls slide down an angled ramp, landi... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
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Andrew Gilbert @ Summerhall
Andrew Gilbert returns to the motherland for his colonial-inspired exhibition at Summerhall Gallery. Littered with trinkets from the contemporary past a... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
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Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking @ The Atkinson, Southport
Artists walking? They get ferried around by Saatchi limo don’t they? At the very least some smart, gallery-paid-for black cab. Apparently not so. They ... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
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Launch Pad: About Painting @ Castlefield Gallery/Agency
Bringing together eight painters from across the UK, Castlefield’s new exhibition Launch Pad: About Painting, explores the variety of abstract painting... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014