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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News
Jeff Koons @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Kitsch, vulgar, delightfully banal and knowingly so; look up a definition of post modernism and Jeff Koons ticks every box. Always bright, interesting and sa... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Interviews
Kevin Harman: Bricking It
Edinburgh's answer to the enfant terrible, Kevin Harman has a solo show in the Old Ambulance Depot this month, drawing together works old and new for a first, early career retrospective. The Skinny meets him for a pint to find out what's behind all the controversy Read more »| 01 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
Jean-Marc Bustamante @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Bustamante’s first exhibition in Scotland marries two strands of his career – his works of photography and sculpture from 1978-97 and his sculptu... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
Emerging Artists
RSA New Contemporaries 2011
For some it's their biggest opportuntity since degree show. The RSA New Contemporaries returns for a third year, showcasing the best of Scotland's young emergent art talent Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
Reviews
Craig Murray-Orr @ Ingleby Gallery
Before viewing Craig Murray-Orr’s solo show at the Ingleby gallery, there is a fact everyone must know: Murray-Orr was born in New Zeland, but has spen... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Interviews
Kate V Robertson: Weird Science
As Kate V Robertson embarks on a residency Lab at Glasgow's CCA The Skinny drops by to discuss what she's been up to Read more »| 23 Feb 2011
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Reviews
Harun Farocki @ CCA
There were a few who thought the CCA a lost cause. A series of obscure shows that persistently fell short of what Glasgow’s foremost contemporary art i... Read more »| 21 Feb 2011 -
Reviews
August Sander @ The Dean Gallery
Not content with just one exhibition of great German art in Edinburgh – that of Rosmarie Trockel at the Talbot Rice Gallery – The Dean Gallery pr... Read more »| 18 Feb 2011 -
Interviews
Bienvenue Monsieur Bustamante!
Jean-Marc Bustamante talks about his retrospective at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
News
Stephanie Cairns @ National Gallery of Modern Art
The modesty of Stephanie Cairns' work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is more a reflection of the gallery’s somewhat stilted gesture tha... Read more »| 14 Feb 2011 -
Interviews
Harun Farocki: In Comparison
Ahead of his show at CCA, The Skinny talks film, politics and bricks with German filmmaker Harun Farocki Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
Interviews
Adam Kennedy, Ship Painter
A 2009 graduate of the Intermedia course at Edinburgh College of Art, Adam Kennedy has successfully launched himself into the Scottish art scene. His mixed m... Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
Reviews
Rosemarie Trockel @ Talbot Rice
Talbot Rice Gallery eschews Rosemarie Trockel's multi-faceted work in film, sculpture and painting and begins with a meticulous survey of her considerable us... Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
Interviews
The Atrocity Exhibition: Dan Miller & Alec Mackenzie
The David Dale Gallery and Studios is housed in an old college building in deepest, darkest Bridgeton, Glasgow. Later this month the gallery brings together Glasgow-based artists Alec Mackenzie and Dan Miller in a two man show called POINT/LINE/SURFACE/SOLID. The Skinny quizzed them on what to expect Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
News
Jean-Marc Bustamante @ Fruitmarket Gallery
With Jean-Marc Bustamante, the Fruitmarket is decidedly moving on from the visually striking Childish Things (Paul McCarthy’s zipped open doll, anyone?... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011