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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FeaturesThe Charged Line: Neon in art and culture
The UK’s biggest ever survey of neon art opens in Blackpool – but why does neon still fascinate us over a century after it was first commercially produced? Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: 23-29 August
It's the final official week of the Edinburgh Art Festival, so head through for a last-chance look; meanwhile Glasgow has new openings, publication launches and events, while Dundee revisits ancient Athenian Xanthippe. Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Showcase
Camille Bernard: The Skinny Showcase
Filmmaker, set designer, painter: Camile Bernard certainly keeps herself busy, and in the work showcased here, she explores a certain disfigured innocence Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
NewsTaxidermy collection profiled in Safestore video
A £40,000 collection of dozens of stuffed and taxidermied animals is among the obscure private collections featured in a new video series. London-base... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: 16-23 Aug
Across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, this week sees exhibition talks and events on sculpture, videogames as art, and the still life genre, while the Edinburgh Art Festival continues... Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Design Manchester announces 2016 programme
Design Manchester returns with a lineup of events celebrating design and creativity, including an art battle, a design fair and an exhibition of Alan Kitching's work Read more »| 10 Aug 2016
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News
This Week in Scottish Art: 9-15 August
There's the first recorded 24 hour art day this week thanks to non-stop events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with Edinburgh Art Festival at the fore once again Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Our Andrew of the Flowers - Andrew Black Interview
In advance of his first solo show at Embassy Gallery, Andrew Black speaks candidly about what the opportunity has meant to him as a white cis male, and how he's not trying to get away guilt-free Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Reviews
Gerda Scheepers @ Mary Mary
Gerda Scheepers peels away at commonplace flat-packed disposable furniture to make unexpected allusions to the body and its heavy physicality Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Reviews
Cathy Wilkes @ The Modern Institute
Cathy Wilkes assembles found objects and new works, but all with a certain layer of grime Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Fashion
Local Heroes celebrate Scottish design
Looking for a brief introduction to contemporary Scottish design? Local Heroes are here with a range of original souvenirs Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
News
This Week in Scottish Art: 2-8 August
Edinburgh Art Festival is into its first proper week, and comes with talks and events throughout the week. In Glasgow, there are openings and a milestone for the new Mount Florida Studio complex, which turns a respectable one year old. Read more »| 02 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Hearing Voices: Siân Robinson Davies Interview
We talk to Siân Robinson Davies about combining art and comedy and Conversations, her upcoming show of scripted conversations between inanimate objects... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016 -
Festivals
Sally Hackett on The Fountain of Youth
Sally Hackett discusses her latest ceramic sculptural commission Fountain of Youth for Edinburgh Art Festival, and collaborating with pupils from Tollcross P... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016 -
Festivals
Platform 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival sets up Platform, its emerging artist set of exhibitions at the very centre of its map in the Kiosk. This year marks another diverse g... Read more »| 29 Jul 2016