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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NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: 20-26 September
Openings, performances and artist talks take place through the week across Glasgow and Edinburgh, including the last in the Transmission's series of experimental form artist talks, and an imaginary nightclub presented in the publication Ultra Vires. Read more »| 20 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
Threshold unveil 'Darkness & Light' theme for 2017
Threshold will return to Liverpool's Baltic Triangle for its seventh year in 2017 to showcase the region's finest music, visual artists and DIY projects. It'll also have a new theme: Darkness and Light. We take a peek Read more »| 15 Sep 2016 -
Emerging ArtistsKieran Milne: The Skinny Showcase
Kieran Milne graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2016 having studied Fine Art. Now based in Glasgow, Milne holds a studio at the Crownpoint studios ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Alice Neel @ Talbot Rice Gallery
The Subject and Me aims to narrate Alice Neel’s (1900-1984) turbulent life through her later paintings and drawings. Neel is showcased as a subject and... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 13-19 September
Across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, this week brings great new exhibitions and events including Embassy's graduate show, the largest show to date of talent Katy Dove, as well as new exhibitions from Mary Mary, Koppe Astner and more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
StudentsHow to do a good degree show
Hey art student! You want your degree show to be totally amazing right? We’ve got some tips and we’ve got some gripes and hopefully the combination of the two will create a useful guide you can use to make your degree show a wonderful place for all of us Read more »| 09 Sep 2016
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InterviewsTall Tales: An Interview with Sarah Forrest
Before the major touring group show Tall Tales comes to Glasgow Women's Library in October, Sarah Forrest describes learning the drums and the exhibition run so far Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
News
HOME announce new art, film & theatre season
The eclectic new season from HOME includes a Rachel Maclean showcase, an adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass and a Neville Smith retrospective Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
News
Bed Art: Top five beds in art
Tracey Emin’s not the only person to use an art bed autobiographically. Bed Art is a much underrated genre in Art History that quite frankly deserves more funding. Here are a few of our favourite examples Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 6-12 September
There's plenty to be seen and done this week in Scottish contemporary art, with new openings from The Modern Institute, events and previews in Cooper Gallery, Generator Projects and DCA, and a temporary radio station from CCA. Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Features
In Design: The Print Project
As part of our series looking at great design in the North, we speak to The Print Project, who've spent the last six years making stunning art... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
News
CCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Total Work of Art: Katy Dove
The largest exhibition yet of Katy Dove's work opens in Dundee Contemporary Arts this month. Curator Graham Domke gives an insight into Dove's overlapping life and practice Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Reviews
Theresa Duncan and Eddo Stern @ DCA
Though billed together, CD-ROMS and Small Wars are starkly different affairs. The former, a retrospective of American artist Theresa Duncan, is light-hearted... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 30 Aug - 5 Sep
This week sees Simon Starling's Common Guild show close with two events, as well as new exhibitions from David Dale, Tramway, Civic Room, Patriothall, Glasgow School of Art, and more. Read more »| 30 Aug 2016