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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NewsBed 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 -
NewsThis 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 -
InterviewsTotal 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 -
ReviewsTheresa 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
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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 -
Features
The 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 -
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This 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 -
News
Taxidermy 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 -
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This 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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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