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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ReviewsDrinks 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 -
ReviewsKill 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 -
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Toby Paterson @ Fruitmarket Gallery
The open spaces of the Fruitmarket Gallery afford a pleasant luxury, the freedom to explore and to wander from one piece of art to the next within their uniq... Read more »| 26 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsJulian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010
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Public Image @ The Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Gallery’s new group show Public Image takes as its theme the ambiguous relationship between ‘us’ and images. Even the greenest o... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Facing East @ Manchester Art Gallery
Even though it’s Chinese New Year and Chinese lanterns adorn Albert Square, Manchester City Gallery’s newest exhibition of work from East Asia is... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Darren Banks @ Sierra Metro
Perfectly offset by Sierra Metro’s dark room and white pillars, Banks’ new installation work is centrepieced with a heap of various domestic obje... Read more »| 27 Jan 2010 -
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Karla Black @ Inverleith House
An artist who has described her own work as “in no way supposed to look like a landscape”, Black was faced with a challenge in the form of Inverl... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsGary Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Admittedly some people love them, but this writer finds nothing more tedious than a room full of photographs. So it was with some trepidation that I stepped ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsMeat Hook @ ECA
Forget Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the rest of the middle-aged ‘Young British Artists’. If you want to know what the rising stars of the art wo... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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Martin Boyce: No Reflections @ DCA
Following the success of his commission for the 2009 Venice Bienale, Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation No Reflections arrives in the comparatively pr... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
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Hilary Lloyd @ Tramway
Standing, for what seems like an eternity, before the static quietude of Lloyd’s video stills of classical sculpture, there occurs a dawning reali... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009