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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ReviewsCécile B. Evans @ Tramway
AMOS' WORLD is the most ambitious installation yet by Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, and deconstructs an emotional and challenging feature length film into episodes spread across a large scale installation in the Tramway main space Read more »| 01 Feb 2019 -
ReviewsSisters, My Sisters: Tremble, Tremble
Artist Niamh Moloney makes a poetic response to her role in Jesse Jones' Tremble Tremble, a performance work that is now on show in Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Read more »| 14 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsJill Todd Photographic Award @ Street Level Photoworks
The Jill Todd Photographic Award 2018 brings together a range of recent graduates of Photography disciplines from across Scotland; their work is diverse, but with traceable intentions that bring the emerging practitioners together Read more »| 14 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsEster Krumbachová @ CCA
Ester Krumbachová was a key figure in the Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s before she was forced underground and all but prevented from making art during Soviet "normalisation" Read more »| 11 Jan 2019 -
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Jonas Staal @ CCA Glasgow
Jonas Staal provides a timely and appropriately sombre take on the excesses of Brexit Read more »| 05 Dec 2018 -
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Jasleen Kaur @ Market Gallery
Jasleen Kaur's exhibition creates a space of comfort that some audiences are nevertheless afraid to enter Read more »| 26 Nov 2018
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Santiago Sierra @ DCA
Santiago Sierra plants the anarchist flag on the North and South Poles, and displays the documentation of this process in Dundee Contemporary Arts. Read more »| 29 Oct 2018 -
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ektor garcia @ Mary Mary
Confounding expectations of weight, texture and surfaces, ektor garcia's solo show at Mary Mary combines metalwork with the stitches of crocheting to draw together materials and processes otherwise considered distinct Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
ArtV&A Dundee: First impressions
After years in the making, the much-anticipated £80m V&A Museum of Design in Dundee has finally opened its doors. But does it fulfil its architect's vision of a “living room for the city”? Read more »| 16 Oct 2018 -
ReviewsThe 14th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival brought together a diverse range of international and UK-based artists, with the transgressive work of young, queer and artists of colour forming the strongest elements Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
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Emil Nolde @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Historical 20th Century painter Emil Nolde receives a retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. His achievements are tempered by his disturbing fascistic tendencies, which the Modern don't quite manage to frame responsibly Read more »| 11 Sep 2018 -
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Children's Exhibition @ Tramway
The Children's Exhibition at Tramway is an exciting proposition, but falters in its execution Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
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Obeying Durations @ 16 Nicholson Street
Obeying Durations is a diverse three-person show that considers various implications of presence, time and collectivity Read more »| 26 Jul 2018 -
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Inner City @ Gallery of Modern Art
Michael C McMillen’s impressively detailed model of an imagined LA slum provides the first literal nod to the urban context that brings together the four exhibiting artists of Inner City. Read more »| 06 Jul 2018 -
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Eve Fowler @ DCA
Eve Fowler's DCA show engages with the work of Gertrude Stein as a reminder of the radical malleability of language and its capacity as a mode of political resistance Read more »| 02 Jul 2018