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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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FeaturesOwn Art: RSA Annual 2014
Upholding a venerable tradition which dates back to the mid-19th Century, RSA members give new work an spring airing in this major annual exhibition which spans genre and style Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
Interviews
GENERATION: A History of Contemporary Scottish Art
As the eyes of the world turn on Scotland for the Commonwealth Games, one vast exhibition programme called GENERATION aims to present the stories of the nation's visual art in the last 25 years Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
FestivalsStreet Art: Ascent at Chorlton Arts Festival
Leafy Chorlton gets a splash of bold colour this month when several of the Northwest's up-and-coming artists display work across the Manchester suburb during the Chorlton Arts Festival Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
Interviews
Go Toward the Light: LightNight 2014
From fire shows to dazzle ships, LightNight floods Liverpool with luminous displays of creativity in May. We take a look at the programme Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
NewsArt News: Leith School Of Art celebrate 25th anniversary; new photography exhibition on John Byrne's King's Theatre mural
A round-up of art news, with details of a 25th anniversary retrospective at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh; an exhibition of photographs of the John Byrne-designed mural at the King's Theatre; plus the latest news, exhibitions and openings Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
ARTIST ROOMS: Bruce Nauman @ The Harris Art Gallery & Museum, Preston, until 24 May
In 2008, art dealer Anthony d’Offay gifted his contemporary and post-war collection to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland in the form of the ARTIS... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014
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Reviews
David McLeavy: Funhaus @ Toast, Manchester, until 6 May
Interactivity is at the centre of Funhaus, a solo project from Sheffield-based artist David McLeavy at Toast, Manchester – his first in the city. From ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsAnne Collier @ The Modern Institute
As part of Glasgow International 2014, New York-based artist Anne Collier continues her feminist investigations into the photographic mechanics of gaze and s... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Post-Military Cinema: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz @ Transmission Gallery
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz returns to Glasgow with Post-Military Cinema, part of Glasgow International Festival 2014. Her latest work is an anthropologica... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
You Are …Gold!
With a major new survey exhibition of Scottish Gold open at The Hunterian, Glasgow, we take a look at the history of this precious yellow metal and a tour around its use in contemporary art today. Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Destroying Art @ GoMA
GoMA’s middle floor has been transformed into the bowels of curatorial constipation by Atelier’s modest selection of free materials and open in... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsAvery Singer @ McLellan Galleries
Commissioned by Glasgow International, Avery Singer’s work hangs in the upper echelons of Sauchiehall Steet’s McLellan Galleries. The five canv... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist @ Tate Liverpool, until 11 May
Sadako crawls in jerking slow-motion out of the well and into her victim’s television set in Ring, and Kayako, a little less discerning, reigns disjoin... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
The Negligent Eye @ The Bluecoat, Liverpool, until 15 Jun
A monochrome baby boy stares warily out at the viewer. The child is from another world, an alien or astronaut; lines run down his face in cosmic interference... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
Oasis in the Sand: Cactus contemporary art space launches in Liverpool
Cactus is Liverpool’s newest contemporary art space. Founder, curator and overall ‘boss’ Joe Fletcher Orr tells us about its conception, and Sebastian Jefford gives us a guided tour of his opening exhibition This Inferior Mirage Read more »| 28 Apr 2014