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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InterviewsOmar Zingaro Bhatia: The Myth Maker
Life as an artist is hard, according to artist Omar Zingaro Bhatia. Not convinced, The Skinny looks to catch a glimpse of the man beneath the fiction Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsJohnny Charles Harris @ Big Mouth Coffee Company
"See a painting you like the look of? How much do you want to pay? Hundred quid? Tenner? A pound? Pay whatever you want," says imaginative – and brave ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsStrange Loops @ Generator Projects
Not often will you find a gallery deviating quite so boldly from the traditional group show format. With the Craig Mulholland-curated exhibition Strange Loop... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
RSA New Contemporaries
Now in its third year, RSA New Contemporaries brings Scotland’s latest art graduates to the attention of the gallery-going public. Evolving from their ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
ReviewsChristian Newby @ +44 141
Imagine you were to inhabit the pictorial space of a black and white glaze of the 1950s pottery range Homemaker. If so, you’ll have some notion of what... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Interviews
Jeremy Millar: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drowned Man
Artist-cum-shaman Jeremy Millar makes work inspired by the greats. Ahead of his new show at CCA, Jac Mantle hears about the ghostly apparition of one of his heroes Read more »| 25 Mar 2011
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Reviews
Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
The five artists that make up the collective Satellite visit the remote plains of Daer reservoir in South Lanarkshire. A small gallery in out-of-the-way East... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
Totems of Today
After hosting artists from Ironbbratz studios for its first few shows, Studio 41 sets out to re-invigorate Glasgow’s curating scene. Will Nothing Be Un... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
John Cage @ The Hunterian Museum and Gallery
John Cage is primarily known for his work as an avant-garde pioneer of experimental music, perhaps his most notorious composition being his 1952 ‘silen... Read more »| 18 Mar 2011 -
Interviews
Smith/Stewart: What Have We Done?
Collaborative duo Smith/Stewart have been up to no good. The Skinny tries to find out what's making them feel so guilty Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
Sue Tompkins and Claude Cahun @ Inverleith House
Sue Tompkins' work seems made for the space. It sits silent and thinking in the domestic cathedral heart of the Botanical Gardens that is Inverleith House. I... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
Anni Albers @ Dovecot Studios
Exhibitions that display a seminal artist alongside the works they have since inspired always make for interesting fare, and with an artist as revolutionary ... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
Reviews
White Knight @ Collective Gallery
The gallery space has always implicitly challenged the meaning of true communal property. Alex Gross and Anna Mields’ film, Farbenlehre, at The Collect... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
News
Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
Satellite is an artist collective that includes Margaret McCormick, Kevin Malcolm, Audrey O'Brien, Neville Rae and Sam Stead. They came together in 2006 over... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
NewsJeff 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