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
Opportunity Knocks - GALLERY 37
Approaching the Out Of The Blue Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street, it's likely you may have a sense of not quite fitting in. A group of male youths stand in the f... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Features
But is it art?
I know what response I don't want. I don't want people to think it's crap. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
Albert Watson - Frozen
Watson's photographs introduce you to a dizzy riot of colour, images riddled with fantasy but rooted in realism. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Tracey Moffatt
Sexy sun kissed stereotypes adorne the walls of the Stills gallery as part of Australian artist Tracey Moffatt's kitsch, exotic environments that combine to ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Size Matters: Ron Mueck
Mueck's work can transport the viewer into Alice's Wonderland Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Rembrandt 400
A small dimly lit room downstairs and twenty-eight glorious etchings. 'Rembrandt four hundred: Masterprints from the National Gallery of Scotland' is utterly... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Reviews
MOYNA FLANNIGAN 'well, Well'
At this time of year, when a walk down the Royal Mile leaves you feeling like a well-chewed piece of gum, it can be difficult to distinguish the entertainers... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Girlpower & Boyhood
On entering the Talbot Rice Gallery, the introduction helpfully informs us that, "Many of the artist…are hotly tipped for greater recognition" and that th... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Being There: Harry Benson's fifty years of photojournalism
This, Harry Benson's first solo exhibition in the U.K., is long overdue. Not only are Benson's photos all fascinating in their own right, but these highligh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Marijke van Warmerdam: First drop
Somewhat radically in the world of contemporary art, Marijke van Warmerdam's First drop exhibition does not have an agenda. It appears to make no political s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Toulouse Lautrec and the Art Nouveau Poster
His contemporaries spoke of 'an artist conquering the streets of Paris' and it is easy to see why. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Robert Mapplethorpe
gay', 'sex', 'S&M' and 'New York'. It sounds like the recipe for a rollicking good time Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Anne Redpath and The Edinburgh School
Redpath's paintings capture the spirit of hot summers and happy holidays' Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Phoebe Cummings - Fragments
this exhibition certainly succeeds in conveying the rich mystery and history of the objects which surround us Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Reviews
Kirsty Whiten - Schemie Centaurs
The plain ugliness of the eponymous Schemies, here depicted for our amusement as a threatening pack centaurs, comes across as rather patronising Read more »| 14 Aug 2006