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.
-
ReviewsFrom Death to Death and Other Small Tales
Following the success of last year’s The Sculpture Show, the National Galleries continues to break brave new ground with another sprawling behemoth of ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsMonika Sosnowska @ The Modern Institute
Here, as ever, Sosnowska’s inquiry into the psychology of architecture is writ large. Four architectonic structures dominate The Modern Institute&rsquo... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Jamie Fitzpatrick @ The Telfer Gallery
Into the Hands of Housewives and Children continues Jamie Fitzpatrick’s fascination with the contentious issue of genetic research. The show takes its ... Read more »| 14 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Andy Hope 1930 @ Inverleith House
Meeting dinosaurs and partaking in a bit of evolutionary time travel are not everyday occurrences, but according to the work of artist Andy Hope 1930, they r... Read more »| 11 Dec 2012 -
ReviewsSonica: Luke Fowler and Jean-Luc Guionnet @ CCA
Lit by a single yellow bulb, Luke Fowler and Jean-Luc Guionnet’s live electronic performance is pleasantly devoid of that aesthetic staple of sonic art... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Harland Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Harland Miller’s first exhibition in Scotland draws on his parallel career as a writer in his almost obsessive adaptations of Penguin book covers from ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012
-
Reviews
Sonica: Laser Show @ Glue Factory
Following a four-week on-site residency, audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox brings his candidly titled Laser Show to the Glue Factory’s tank room... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Tales of Magical Realism Part 2 @ Tramway
Sven Werner’s participatory installation is the follow-up to his highly successful Tales of Magical Realism Part 1. It is an immersive embodiment ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsThe Turner Prize 2012
Back in Tate Britain this year after its sojourn to the Baltic, the Turner Prize features Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Remember Me @ Scotland Street School Museum
Considered by certain individuals to be a hive of paranormal activity, the perfectly preserved corridors of Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School are an ... Read more »| 20 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Enlightened Sound @ The Whisky Bond, 16 Nov
Entering the almost-bare warehouse room containing the installation by Steev Livingstone (Errors), called The Last Pigeons, the viewer is faced with two... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Ecstatic Arc @ Tramway
The premiere of Robbie Thomson’s new live performance work is a truly awesome mix of theatre, music and visual art. It's centerpiece is a Tesla coil mo... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Our Contemporaries @ Tramway
Our Contemporaries is dystopian sci-fi pared down to basic components. Mookyoung Shin’s futuristic nightmare mixes automation with bureaucracy. Rows ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Sandglasses @ Tramway
A minimalist concept masks a complex combination of media in Juste Janulyte’s Sandglasses. Four cellists are encapsulated within large tulle columns, h... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Sonica: Palimpsest @ Tramway
Four robots, two artists and one large drawing space, illuminated on the floor. A projector in the ceiling casts images upon the floor and the artists respon... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012