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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ReviewsKate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
InterviewsSandy Christie - Local Hero
Paul Mitchell speaks to Sandy Christie, our Art Local Hero. Sandy presents an altrnative route for artists trying to disseminate their work to a wider audience, eschewing the traditionally proscribed avenues of gallery-approved selection in order to go it alone with a system of open submissions, self-publication and guerilla exhibiting. Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsArt Late @ Stills, 28 Aug
The Edinburgh Art Festival is drawing to a close, but there’s still just enough time to catch up on any of the shows that you’ve missed. Art Late... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
News
Annuale Bus Tour @ ECA, 31 Aug
As a fitting ending to the Annuale 08, The Embassy and The Skinny are teaming up to bring you a closing tour/party on Sunday 31st August. In a bid to provide... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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ReviewsAndrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brai... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
MAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most pro... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
NewsThe Golden Record @ Collective Gallery
Fuelled by ambition of gargantuan proportions and driven with an intent in line with the joviality and ingenuity to which we have become so accustomed during... Read more »| 22 Jul 2008 -
Reviews
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Edinburgh and Glasgow, two cities sitting on opposite sides of a small nation: it’s barely necessary to go into the age-old series of jokes, comments a... Read more »| 22 Jul 2008 -
News
Return of the Soul: The Nakbah Project
Nancy Katz anticipates a politically loaded exhibition that brings a touch of international consciousness to the Art Festival Read more »| 20 Jul 2008 -
Reviews
Altered States of Paint @ DCA
Andrew Cattanach gives the press releases a body swerve to look at an exhibition of rare scope and flair Read more »| 17 Jul 2008 -
Features
A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part 1
As a tribute to those who have just spent a year or four pouring their hearts and souls into The Degree Show, only to emerge, blinking, into the cold light of that post-graduation day, we present an ongoing series of articles from those in the know concerning the very real challenge of surviving while keeping the faith. The series is inaugurated with the thoughts of The Embassy's Daniella Watson. Read more »| 07 Jul 2008 -
Emerging Artists
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2008
Andrew Cattanach takes us on a guided tour of his picks of the class of 2008 Read more »| 07 Jul 2008 -
News
The Back Garden Biennale
You could say this is the rom-com of art exhibitions: a fluffy, bubbly affair with a well-meaning message at the end of it Read more »| 01 Jul 2008