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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InterviewsRachel Maclean introduces Spite Your Face
No stranger to these pages, video artist Rachel Maclean offers an insight into her dark Venetian fairytale, Spite Your Face Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
ReviewsAmbit @ Street Level, Glasgow
Street Level presents a part of the Ambit project on Scottish Photography, and features five artists whose markedly different practices nevertheless contain moments of subtle rapport and overlap Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
ReviewsAfter Hours @ 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
Through a combination of spatial intervention, sculpture, publication and video work, Higgins complicates ideas of formal presentation, as well as leisure, professionalism and labour Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Showcase
Anneli Holmstrom: The Skinny Showcase
Anneli Holmstrom is a visual artist, currently based between Lisbon and Edinburgh. Her work features a cross-disciplinary approach that explores the pot... Read more »| 26 May 2017 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival: 2017 Commissions Programme
Edinburgh Art Festival reveals the Commissions Programme for this year’s festival, which take inspiration from the festival’s 70th anniversary and the work of visionary town planner Patrick Geddes Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
ReviewsSteven Claydon @ The Common Guild
Steven Claydon transforms The Common Guild with industrial-looking sculptures topped with reproductions of archaic objects, fizzing away material categories and expectations. Read more »| 19 May 2017
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Showcase
Unstable Creations: The Skinny Showcase
Unstable Creations is the alias for designer and digital artist Martin Sweeny. Over the last few years, Martin has been developing his take on projection map... Read more »| 16 May 2017 -
NewsScottish Art News: 16-22 May
This week's art round-up includes the Dundee degree show, and exhibitions at CCA, Celine and Summerhall Read more »| 16 May 2017 -
Festivals
Venice Vernissage: A world divided
The opening week of the Venice Biennale offers a contradictory reflection of the troubled world of 2017, both within and without the official exhibitions programme Read more »| 16 May 2017 -
Features
Extra-ordinary: Leeds College of Art degree show
Explore the best of Leeds' emerging creative talent with Extra-ordinary, Leeds College of Art's end of year degree show spanning work by illustrators, animators, sculptors, fashion designers and more Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
Festivals
LeithLate announces 2017 programme
Locally-spirited arts festival LeithLate returns with a lively programme of visual art, theatre and music, along with a few new venues and a Public Poetry Trail Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
Features
New exhibition depicts lost Manchester and Salford
Photographs by Shirley Baker capture communities living in Manchester and Salford during the years of urban clearance Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Festivals
LightNight artist profile: Super Sonic Assembly
The theme for this year's LightNight festival is 'Time', so we asked some of the commissioned artists how they've responded to the brief. DJ Greg Wilson of The Super Sonic Assembly tells us what he'd put in a time capsule Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Festivals
LightNight 2017 artist profile: Andy McKeown
We asked the commissioned artists for this year's LightNight how their work responds to the festival's theme, 'Time'. New-media artist Andy McKeown tells us about his ambitious recreation of the Metropolitan Cathedral's 'crown' Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Festivals
LightNight 2017 artist profile: Friend or Foe
The theme for this year's LightNight festival is 'Time', so we asked some of the commissioned artists what (or who) they'd put in a time capsule. No prizes for guessing who multidisciplinary artists Friend or Foe nominated... Read more »| 10 May 2017