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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ReviewsArt in the Age of Social Networking
Allotment returns with a fourth instalment which does not disappoint Read more »| 08 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsCybraphon @ SWG3
In the less than prominent upstairs exhibition space at SWG3 lurks an antique wooden display cabinet housing a BAFTA-winning cornucopia of light bulbs, antiq... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
ReviewsAir Iomlaid
Air Iomlaid, or ‘On Exchange’, is a collaborative project involving primary school pupils from both Edinburgh and Skye who underwent intensive ar... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
ReviewsJim Lambie Metal Urbain @ Modern Institute
The behemoth that is the GI International Festival of Visual Art keeps rumbling along, with Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition marking the opening of the Mod... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Christoph Büchel @ Tramway
If your taste runs to big, immersive, visceral work that swallows you whole, leads you through an unknown realm and spits you out, bewildered, shaken and sub... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
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Benny Merris: Bubble and Squeak
Benny Merris has been smoking it up in Amsterdam. He's been going through a hashish Renaissance, he tells me, and it shows. Each of the 19 paintings exhibite... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010
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Spring 2010 Exhibition @ Axolotl Gallery
The Axolotl Gallery holds a deceptively sugary appeal from Dundas Street; its bright purple shop front displays colourful, surreal paintings promising an arr... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsLost and Found @ Street Level Photoworks
Anyone who’s ever attempted to face GI’s opening weekend can attest to the number of shows which, when combined with the Saturday shoppers, can q... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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Susan Philipsz: Lowlands @ Clydeside Walkway
When Glasgow-born Philipsz stumbled upon a bunch of flowers marking a suicide by the River Clyde railings, she decided that this would be the perfect locatio... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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Fiona Tan @ GOMA
Those who have witnessed Fiona Tan’s subtle, multi-layered and enthralling Disorient, representative of the Netherlands at 2009’s Venice Biennale... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
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New Contemporaries
Now in its second year, the RSA’s graduate show learns fast. While 2009 marked a dramatic change of pace from the previous everyone’s-a-winner st... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
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Drinks Reception @ Quartermile
Is contemporary art depressed? Is it feeling disheartened, unfulfilled and forlorn? Is something missing? If the latest exhibition by ECA’s sculpture ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2010 -
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Alex Frost - The Connoisseurs @ DCA
On entering Alex Frost’s solo show at the DCA, the visitor is met with a mural covering the whole of one wall displaying the WiFi logo rendered in swim... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
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Kill Your Value Judgements
If any members of the DCA crowd were excitedly looking forward to another year’s feast of experimental music from the justly renowned Kill Your Timid N... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
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Dromos @ Generator Projects
The Generator’s show Dromos takes as its lofty aim the creation of “a New Babylon of discovery” unconstrained by the rigid white cube. Inco... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010