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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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NewsArt in Liverpool & Manchester: February-March 2016
Looking for some good exhibitions to go to in Manchester or Liverpool? You've come to the right place: here's our Art editor's guide to the best in Northwest art over the next few weeks, taking in everything from oysters to an art 'gym'... Read more »| 18 Feb 2016 -
FestivalsOutskirts festival announces 2016 line-up
The initial line-up for this year's Outskirts multi-arts festival at Platform in Glasgow has been announced. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
NewsThis Week in Scottish Art: GFF & more
Glasgow Film Festival hosts visual art events at CCA and GFT this week with the Margaret Tait Film Award, and new exhibitions also open at Collective, WASPS, Transmission and the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Features
British Art Show 8: Our Top Seven
British Art Show 8 is a consistently high quality artists' survey; here are seven artists from this year's exhibition to get you started. Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: British Art Show & More
GSA students show off work in progress, British Art Show previews and exhibitions begin and end in Dundee – here's our guide to the week ahead. Read more »| 09 Feb 2016 -
InterviewsGlasgow International 2016: Festival plans
Glasgow International Director Sarah McCrory talks through her plans for this year's festival Read more »| 08 Feb 2016
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ReviewsAnother Minimalism @ Fruitmarket Gallery
With Another Minimalism, The Fruitmarket Gallery conducts a broad enquiry into the Light and Space art movement without drily staying within art historical boundaries, looking towards contemporary practitioners and a continuing and live line of influence. Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
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A Wonderful Travelling Show: British Art Show 8
The quinquennial British Art Show comes back for its eighth outing and this time the emphasis is on new technologies, media and the place of artist responses and craft in a newly interconnected present Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
Flat Death @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
The sky is grey over Liverpool. On the road outside Open Eye a car drives over an already dead pigeon. His body is partially flattened but there are still st... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
Merlin James @ CCA
Merlin James' major career-spanning exhibition in its very form experiments with the conventions of the late stage painter, and continues to enquire into the possibilities of the medium Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Emerging Artists
Get Eclectic: Converge, by Visual Arts Scotland
Visual Arts Scotland put on their annual exhibition, and look to bring together artists and designers in meaningful and challenging ways Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Reviews
Matisse: Works to Know by Heart @ Tate Liverpool
As the physical effects of age take hold, an artist’s work must necessarily shift and change accordingly. In 1914, at the age of 72, Henri Matisse unde... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Features
AL and AL at HOME
Ahead of their new solo exhibition at HOME we talk to artists AL and AL about everything from Francis Crick's panspermia theory (us neither) to an Alan Turing dreamscape populated by anorexic Terminators (that's more like it) Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Scottish Art News: February 2016
This month sees a large multidisciplinary show on concrete and Scottish architecture in Dundee Contemporary Arts, a huge student arts festival in Edinburgh (ESAF) and new exhibits from Ingleby, Collective, Transmission and more. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: Silent auction & more
Whether it's a reading group, silent auction, talk or discussion event, occupy yourself with some contemporary art with one of the many events coming up over the next seven days in Scotland's galleries Read more »| 02 Feb 2016