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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MusicPrimal Scream to headline V&A Dundee’s 3D Festival
The legendary Glasgow band will help kick off V&A Dundee’s opening with a headline gig at the 3D Festival, a free two-day celebration of design, music and performance Read more »| 26 Jul 2018 -
InterviewsRabiya Choudhry on solo shows and Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh artist Rabiya Choudhry talks us through her trio of new projects – interrogating the GSA archives, presenting new work at this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, and her upcoming solo show at Transmission Gallery Read more »| 23 Jul 2018 -
News
Rock Trust celebrates 25 Years of Sleep Out
For a quarter of a century, Rock Trust have shone a light on the difficulties faced those threatened by homelessness. Past participants in their Sleep Outs talk us through the experience ahead of this year's event Read more »| 23 Jul 2018 -
NewsCreative Scotland head Janet Archer quits
Following a turbulent few months, Creative Scotland chief executive Janet Archer is leaving the organisation Read more »| 17 Jul 2018 -
Showcase
Scottish Design: Collaborations
The collaborations keep coming in Scottish design – here are a few of 2018's newest offerings Read more »| 09 Jul 2018 -
Reviews
Inner City @ Gallery of Modern Art
Michael C McMillen’s impressively detailed model of an imagined LA slum provides the first literal nod to the urban context that brings together the four exhibiting artists of Inner City. Read more »| 06 Jul 2018
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News
Scottish Art News July 2018
While Glasgow reels from the devastating fire at the GSA and the surrounding buildings, Edinburgh gears up for Edinburgh Art Festival Read more »| 04 Jul 2018 -
Reviews
Eve Fowler @ DCA
Eve Fowler's DCA show engages with the work of Gertrude Stein as a reminder of the radical malleability of language and its capacity as a mode of political resistance Read more »| 02 Jul 2018 -
ReviewsA Kaleidoscopic Smattering: Gray's Degree Show 2018
The Aberdeen cohort display, as always, a different take on the degree show fare and make a trip to the edge of Aberdeen more than worth it Read more »| 20 Jun 2018 -
NewsGlasgow School of Art & O2 ABC damaged in huge fire
Extensive damage has been reported at both venues in the centre of Glasgow Read more »| 16 Jun 2018 -
Showcase
Alice Rawsthorn on Scotland's design policy
It’s becoming a persistent question as Scotland’s design sector thrives and evolves: do we need a national design policy? This month, Local Heroes founder Stacey Hunter asks design critic Alice Rawsthorn for her opinion Read more »| 07 Jun 2018 -
Emerging Artists
A Barrage of Talent: GSA Degree Show 2018
At GSA, the 2018 cohort make a virtue of diversity and distinction, as The Skinny struggles to muster up some thematic patterns, before indulging in the barrage of talent in all its many forms. Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
Interviews
Jonas Staal's plea for utopian realism
Jonas Staal's The Scottish-European Parliament sets out to address some of the most pressing political problems in Scotland today. We talk to the artist abou... Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
News
Arts group resurrecting St Peter's Seminary to close
NVA, the innovative and forward-thinking Scottish arts organisation who hoped to renovate the dilapidated St Peter's Seminary, is to close following its loss of Creative Scotland funding Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
Showcase
Kat Gollock: The Skinny Showcase
Edinburgh-based photographer Kat Gollock specialises in performance, portraiture and events, and has been shooting gigs for The Skinny for several years... Read more »| 04 Jun 2018