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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NewsLightNight Liverpool returns with Time theme
Liverpool's annual late-night culture crawl LightNight returns for the eighth time on Fri 19 May with nine new commissions and over 100 free events. Read more »| 27 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsConor Kelly @ Queenspark Railway Club
Glasgow-based painter and installation artist creates an elegantly cluttered meditation on art-making as a parent and a middle-managed employee. Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
Emerging Artists
RSA New Contemporaries Award Winners announced
The full list of emerging artists receiving awards and bursaries as part of this year's annual RSA New Contemporaries Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
InterviewsKevin Harman: "There’s the riot gear and the absinthe"
We catch up with Edinburgh's most controversial artist Kevin Harman in advance of his huge early career retrospective at Edinburgh's Leith Docks Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
News
Katy Perry hearts Rachel Maclean
Pop star pays a visit to the artist's Tate Britain exhibition and declares "This is how I imagine I am in my mind" Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Books
St Peter's, Cardross: Birth, Death and Renewal
The recently awarded A list status of Leith’s iconic Banana Flats shows just how much interest there currently is in the brutalist architecture of the ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2017
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News
Sarah Forrest wins Margaret Tait Award 2017
Glasgow-based artist Sarah Forrest is announced as recipient of 2017 Margaret Tait Award Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 14-20 February
This week brings the announcement of the Margaret Tait Award, the newest edition of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries, Glasgow Open House Party tonight and a new event as part of the ambitious Cooper Gallery show When Gesture Becomes Event. Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
FeaturesThe Other'd Artist: Interview with Travis Alabanza
Performance artist Travis Alabanza talks to The Skinny ahead of their ambitious collaborative exhibition of Black artists The Other'd Artist with Transmission in May Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 7-13 February
Edinburgh Student Art Festival kicks off, as well as a major exhibition from renowned installation artist Claire Barclay in Tramway, and exciting openings and events across Collective, Telger Gallery, Cooper Gallery, The Number Shop and plenty more. Read more »| 07 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Wonder Women feminist festival returns for 2017
Manchester's feminist festival Wonder Women returns this March with a programme of art, music, film, theatre and more. Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Reviews
Oliver Laric @ Tramway
Oliver Laric's new exhibition is a keen taken on internet transmogrification, in-between mental states, and technological reality. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Art Battle Manchester: Inside the phenomenon
An energetic live experience where artists compete to create a masterpiece against the clock, Art Battle Manchester has taken the city by storm. We go behind the scenes of this popular phenomenon, and meet a painter gearing up for the next event... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Features
RSA New Contemporaries 2017: An introduction
As RSA New Contemporaries returns for its ninth year, we speak to some of the artists about their plans and what the opportunity means during the first year out of art school Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
News
Edinburgh Art Festival call for submissions
The annual visual arts festival is looking for both emerging and more established artists for its 2017 edition Read more »| 02 Feb 2017