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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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ReviewsCharles Avery @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Charles Avery’s Islanders is an astonishingly good exhibition. ’Good’ is necessarily too facile a term: it is fascinating, entrancing, a tr... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Features
Museum Photography, a Rant
Roving art reporter Andrew Cattanach reveals what really annoys him about international galleries Read more »| 05 Jan 2009 -
News
The Skinny Recommends: International Art events 2009
In honour of our January Travel Special, a variety of our favourite writers and Showcasers have told us what art they really, really want to see in the coming year. Read more »| 01 Jan 2009 -
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Keep Calm and Carry On
This exhibition, featuring students from Edinburgh College of Art, never skips a beat, from Ross Christie’s amply stocked zine hut to Liam Crichton&rsq... Read more »| 19 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsTwo Alasdairs Retrospective
Apart from their name and the fact that they attended Glasgow School of Art, Alasdair Gray and Alasdair Taylor do not appear at first glance to have a lot in... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
NewsKill Your Timid Notion On Tour
Mark Herbert looks forward to KYTN's imminent arrival in Glasgow, fresh from a cross-Britain tour. Read more »| 03 Dec 2008
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ReviewsJean Muir @ National Museum of Scotland
Though perhaps not as instantly recognizable outside the fashion industry as her contemporary, Barbara ‘Biba’ Hulanicki, designer Jean Muir&rsquo... Read more »| 03 Dec 2008 -
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Langlands + Bell @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Having spent the preceding week building up our critical stamina by bench-pressing the hardback big-print version of Gombrich's History of Art, The Skinny gl... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Features
A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part III: Aberdeen
In the third part of our series offering advice to newly hatched creatives looking for support in The Real World, Fraser Denholm discusses a fast-ascending venture especially for those in the granite city. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
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Neville Rae @ Sierra Metro Review
Neville Rae is the artist lucky enough to have the inaugural show of Sierra Metro, the new gallery housed in a disused warehouse in Granton. The work... Read more »| 20 Nov 2008 -
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Alex Frost @ Sorcha Dallas
The first gallery is sparse, containing only two works: a wall-hung ceramic mosaic of a cereal that claims to lower cholesterol, and, on a column in the cent... Read more »| 19 Nov 2008 -
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Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton @ Ingleby Gallery
On the floor of the Ingleby's Gallery 2 lies a spunk-like trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition,... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
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Gregor Laird @ Q! Gallery
A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year's Glasgay!, ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Ernst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
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Lila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008