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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ShowcaseShowcase: Joe Fletcher Orr
Showcase: Joe Fletcher Orr Whilst in discussion with Orr he revealed that he believed he made his best work at high school when he ate an apple from the sti... Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
NewsCultural Calendar – March 2015
A guide to our picks of the CCA programme Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Interviews
Digital Distress: exploring mental health and technology at FACT
As an exhibition exploring the relationship between technology and mental health opens at FACT, artist Katriona Beales talks about her new commission dealing with internet addiction Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
News
Polymaths, A Home Show, and Bacon Scissors: This Week in Scottish Art
There's plenty of diverse art events this week, including curator-slash-band duo WE's concert and breakfast talk, Project Ability's international showcase and a couple of Slade graduates' open house exhibition among others. Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Ballet of the Palette @ GoMA
Artists from last year’s Picture Show have put together an exhibition of paintings selected from the Glasgow collections. It’s a clever crossing ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
FeaturesComicbooks, Perms, A-ha: This Month in Scottish Art
Across Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh, there are several major new exhibitions opening throughout March, as well as accompanying conversation and discussion events Read more »| 01 Mar 2015
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Reviews
Dictatorship and Democracy @ Goethe-Institut
What is art? It is leaving beauty and pleasure behind and recognising the entity as part of everyday life. The analysis is Leo Tolstoy’s and one wonder... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Emerging Artists
RSA New Contemporaries: All Hail the Class of 2014
A mainstay of the Scottish art calendar, the annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition lives up to the hype with the brightest graduates of 2014 Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Metamorphosis of Japan After the War @ Open Eye Gallery
Metamorphosis opens with an image of the sun that shone above photographer Hiroshi Hamaya’s home in Niigata around noon on August 15, 1945. War was off... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Maeve Redmond
Maeve Redmond is a freelance graphic designer who works primarily with Scotland’s artists, writers and cultural organisations. She has worked as our le... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Playtime @ Cornerhouse, Manchester
The first time I visited Playtime, the last exhibition ever to be mounted at Cornerhouse (before it moves to its new HOME), it was the opening weekend last N... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
NewsAndy Warhol, Sound-Reactive Visuals and Show and Tell: This Week in Scottish Art
From legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to the just-graduated Sonia Gavrilovic Hufton, there's a variety of art to see and things to do in Scottish art this week. Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
News
Soft Chaos, Hot Air and Labours of Love: This Week in Scottish Art
This week sees a host of exhibition openings in Glasgow, a student response to an exhibition in Dundee, and a symposium on the economics of art in Edinburgh. Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
News
Manchester's Whitworth Gallery reopens after £15m refurb
The Whitworth Gallery at the University of Manchester reopens this weekend after a major refurbishment with a host of new works, talks and events. The galle... Read more »| 13 Feb 2015 -
News
Scottish Album of the Year and CCA team up for art awards
The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award and Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) have joined forces to present two awards for both establish... Read more »| 12 Feb 2015