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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NewsThe Annuale 09
What to expect of the Embassy-run art festival as it turns six this month? A super reliable internet source profiles the developmental milestones of a six-ye... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Emerging ArtistsDegrees of separation: Dundee Degree Show 09
The decision to move the Duncan of Jordanstone degree show out of the college itself and into a building designed as a commercial office space is necessarily... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
FeaturesGlasgow Gallery Weekend
On the weekend when Glasgow art explodes, Rosamund West takes a walk down the newest gallery district of Eastvale Place. Read more »| 05 May 2009 -
Reviews
Edwyn Collins - Wildlife 1
When former Orange Juice man Edwyn Collins was hospitalised in 2005 following a major cerebral haemorrhage, his family were initially told to brace themselve... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
ReviewsMass Damper @ Generator Projects
At the centre of George Henry Longly’s show Mass Damper, in the middle of a darkened gallery, a snake eats a mouse on an endless loop. The DVD is shot ... Read more »| 13 Apr 2009 -
Interviews
New beginnings: The Embassy and St Margaret's House
Rosamund West caught up with The Embassy's committee as they spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon in a cloud of dust, taking up the carpeting in their new gallery in the arts complex of St Margaret's House. Read more »| 02 Mar 2009
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Reviews
RSA New Contemporaries 09
The RSA student show has been transformed beyond all recognition, and the much-anticipated reformatting was today unveiled, proving an emphatic success. Inst... Read more »| 13 Feb 2009 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Rachel Maclean
Rachel Maclean This month The Skinny Showcase presents Rachel MacLean, who is in her final year at ECA. We first saw her work at Keep Calm and Carry On in t... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
Emerging Artists
RSA New Contemporaries 09
The RSA Student Show is no more. Rosamund West heralds the arrival of RSA New Contemporaries. Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
News
Patrick Jameson @ Sierra Metro
Patrick Jameson’s installation Eliel will be the third show at Edinburgh’s exciting new art space Sierra Metro. It promises to be interestingly v... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Charles 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 -
Reviews
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 -
Reviews
Two 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