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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FestivalsStranger than Fiction: Manaf Halbouni on What If?
Manaf Halbouni speaks candidly about his recent new film work made in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, in response to Middle Eastern politics and the Syrians that have recently settled as new Scots Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
ShowcaseNicole Gault: The Skinny Showcase
In this month's showcase, the work of Duncan of Jordanstone of College of Design graduate Nicole Gault Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
FeaturesThe Skinny North: The final editorial
The Skinny North has published its final issue – we look back on a whirlwind four years Read more »| 13 Jul 2017 -
FeaturesCCA Highlights: July/August 2017
Summer has come! Enjoy 11pm plays of light, midges on the Isle of Skye and open-topped convertibles screeching towards euphoric sunsets as you blast through ... Read more »| 12 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Tschabalala Self @ Tramway, Glasgow
Tschabalala Self's exhibition at Tramway is sensorially luxurious and provocative, as she works semi figuratively and experimentally with fabric and paper collage and monoprinting. Read more »| 12 Jul 2017 -
Interviews
Northern Soul: The Skinny North bids farewell
The North's finest. The Skinny North says a final farewell by asking some of our favourite people, what makes the North so special? Read more »| 10 Jul 2017
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FestivalsMIF 2017: Phil Collins brings Engels back to Manchester
Friedrich Engels is coming home! Artist Phil Collins tells us why he's dragged a Soviet-era statue of the Communist Manifesto co-author across Europe to be permanently installed in Manchester Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Parasite Rex @ CCA, Glasgow
Rob Churm's solo show at the CCA stretches over video, a new comic book and dozens of drawings, lusciously cross-hatched and written with personal, erudite and rambling text. Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Interviews
This Will Ruin Everything: Recoat's 10th Birthday
As urban art specialists Recoat celebrate turning 10 with a 40-person exhibition in the Lighthouse, masterminds Amy Whiten and Alistair Wyllie assess the changing face of street art and design in Scotland Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Features
Galvanize! Local Heroes returns at SWG3
For their second project, design-curators Local Heroes present Galvanize! in SWG3's back yard Read more »| 30 Jun 2017 -
Festivals
EIF 2017: Bloom details revealed
More information on the opening event for this year's Edinburgh International Festival have been revealed Read more »| 26 Jun 2017 -
Emerging Artists
ECA Degree Show 2017: Free for all
Edinburgh College of Art's class of '17 hit a note of unexpected joyousness, combining free abandon and critical thoughtfulness Read more »| 21 Jun 2017 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show 2017: It's a riot
Once again the disconcerting labyrinth of the Trongate Tontine building has been invaded by the Glasgow School of Art, this year featuring a glorious array o... Read more »| 16 Jun 2017 -
Emerging Artists
Leeds College of Art Degree Show: Once More With Feeling
It’s that time of year again. Creeping up on the unsuspecting public it at once feels familiar, like the signal for summer to attempt to begin in earne... Read more »| 16 Jun 2017 -
Festivals
Is Inverleith House back in business?
An upcoming summer exhibition at Inverleith House means the much-loved gallery is back at the centre of Edinburgh's art scene after a period of uncertainty towards its future as an art space Read more »| 16 Jun 2017