Art
The Skinny art guide. We bring you the latest in emerging artists, art exhibition previews, reviews, interviews, and features. Find out the latest art news for Scotland with our news columns, and view emerging artists' portfolios in our monthly Showcase.
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NewsJoep Van Liefland @ Duchy Gallery
In the Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, a magnetised Jack Black accidentally erases all the tapes in Mos Def's video store. In a harebrained attempt to con... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
ReviewsSonica: 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 -
ReviewsSonica: 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 -
ReviewsSonica: 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: 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 -
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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
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NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 Nov
The Skinny's latest columnist, the News Badger (meles meles nuntius; Brock to his friends) joins us for the first of a daily roundup of the latest news and gossip from the world of culture! Read more »| 14 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 -
Reviews
Andrew Black and Tony Swain @ The Duchy
The Duchy’s annual pairing of artists at different stages of their career, Aereated Bread Company presents work by Andrew Black, a recent Painting and ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
News
Scottish Art: Own Brand?
Hailing from Oz, Peter Drew shares his first encounter with the Scottish art scene Read more »| 08 Nov 2012 -
News
Carpets of Distinction @ Dovecot Studios
From the mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth, the Arts and Craft Movement stood for artistic craftsmanship over the increasing superfluity of ind... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
Reviews
Ugo Rondinone @ Common Guild, Until 19 November
The first few sculptures in Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone's debut Scottish exhibition, primitive – hand-made birds cast in bronze, be... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Iain Hales
Showcase: Iain Hales Iain Hales is a Scottish artist currently living and working in London. He completed his BA in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
News
The Skinny Shop & Platform 7 @ Dickens Gallery, Liverpool 1-25 Nov
This November a unique exhibition is arriving in Liverpool; a collaboration between The Skinny and Somewhereto_, two organisations united by a love of emerge... Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
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Jill Todd Photo Award @ Whitespace
The Jill Todd Photographic Award is a new national award for emerging photographers in Scotland. Jill Todd was a talented young photographer who tragically d... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012