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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ReviewsBloomberg 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 -
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Gego. 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 -
ReviewsObject 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 -
ReviewsOpen 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 -
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Cathy 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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ReviewsGhostie! – 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 -
ReviewsLaunch 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 -
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Skin and Bones @ 1 Royal Terrace
Royal Terrace Committee Show Skin and Bones hosts the architecturally enhanced but bodily based sculptural installation from its founding artists Ruth Swital... Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
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Cornerhouse Projects / Ian McKay @ Cornerhouse Cafe/Bar, Manchester, until 17 Jun
Ah, summer. When you can’t move in Primark for flip-flops even though it’s raining outside and the hottest days are spent in freezing air-conditi... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
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Ebb and Flow: A Visual Chronicle of the Changes within Liverpool’s Chinatown @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, until 22 Jun
Ebb and Flow takes us through the history of photographers' enduring interest in Liverpool’s Chinatown, the oldest in Europe. The exhibition kicks off ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
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ARTIST ROOMS: Bruce Nauman @ The Harris Art Gallery & Museum, Preston, until 24 May
In 2008, art dealer Anthony d’Offay gifted his contemporary and post-war collection to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland in the form of the ARTIS... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014