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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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NewsCCA Highlights: April 2025
After a winter spent in hibernation, the CCA is reopening its doors and its spring programme looks incredible. We get into the nitty-gritty of some of the best things on over the next few months Read more »| 03 Apr 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: April 2025
Motherhood and creativity is the subject of a landmark exhibition in Dundee, while Portia Zvavahera presents her dreamscapes at Fruitmarket and Jupiter Artland reopens for 2025 Read more »| 02 Apr 2025 -
FeaturesFragile Beauty: GLASS at Perth Museum
A new exhibition in Perth Art Gallery, GLASS explores the evolution of glassmaking locally and around the world Read more »| 01 Apr 2025 -
MusicJupiter Rising x EAF: First details for 2025 revealed
Glasgow DJ and electronic artist TAAHLIAH will headline this year's Jupiter Rising x EAF, the after-dark party of live music, art and performance at Jupiter Artland Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsJerwood Survey III @ Collective, Edinburgh
This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
FeaturesYoung Team: RSA New Contemporaries 2025 preview
With over sixty exhibitors on display, here’s The Skinny’s take on the up-and-coming artists to look out for at RSA New Contemporaries Read more »| 11 Mar 2025
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NewsEdinburgh Art Festival & The Skinny Emerging Writers' programme returns
Our Emerging Writers programme with Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2025 with a new longform commission Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsSay No! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal @ Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews
In St Andrews, an exhibition stands firm against exclusionary and oppressive feminisms, defying transphobic and anti-sex work backlash Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsHag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy through Craft
We meet the organisers of 'Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy through Craft', arriving in Dunfermline on International Women's Day, to explore the witchy theme behind this provocatively-titled show Read more »| 05 Mar 2025 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: March 2025
A pair of major survey exhibitions spotlight dozens of emerging artists this March, plus shows from Steve McQueen, Walker & Bromwich and Jude Browning Read more »| 04 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsPetra Bauer: Sisters! @ Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Swedish artist and filmmaker Petra Bauer’s film is a powerful look at the day-to-day work of Southall Black Sisters Read more »| 01 Mar 2025 -
FeaturesTokens of Affection: Valentine's Design Gifts
Our design correspondent helps you to find your sweet spot as February brings the subject of love to the fore Read more »| 11 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsMaud Sulter and The Living Archive of Diaspora
Curator Pelumi Odubanjo tells us how she’s reimagining Sulter’s legacy through a participatory events programme at Tramway Read more »| 11 Feb 2025 -
FeaturesNational Galleries Scotland: Three Women
This month Lucy Askew, Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland gives us an insight into three works by women artists which have been added to the national collection Read more »| 03 Feb 2025 -
ReviewsEverlyn Nicodemus @ Modern One, Edinburgh
The first-ever retrospective of artworks by Edinburgh-based and Tanzania-born Everlyn Nicodemus is poignant, intimate, potent and bold Read more »| 03 Feb 2025