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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Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Callum Sutch
Showcase: Callum Sutch With a BA in Fine Art, Callum Sutch graduates this year from Manchester School of Art – where, he says, he has “spent the... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Emerging Artists
Create at Salford Festival – Degree Show
We discover a class of 2013 more than prepared to take on the real world at the The University of Salford’s degree show Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Dennis Reinmüller
Showcase: Dennis Reinmüller On a face-achingly bleak early spring evening in the capital a quietly baffled audience trudged to a re-imagining of one of... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Processing @ The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool, until 29 Sep
Curated by Jack Welsh, Processing forms a dialogue between artist, writer and exhibition guest, aiding the parallel programme for LOOK/13 (the Liverpool Inte... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Maurice Carlin: Performance Publishing @ Regent Trading Estate, until 20 Jul
Over several months, Maurice Carlin has been producing variations on his Corrupted Images, whereby he takes a printed reading from a surface, publishing it s... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
News
Postcard from Venice Biennale
Our art editor travels to Venice and gives us a selection of highlights from this year's Biennale, including new work by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei Read more »| 02 Jul 2013
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Festivals
Jeremy Deller: Master of Ceremonies
Batting for Britain this year at the Venice Biennale is Anglophile Jeremy Deller. We quizzed him about national identity, cultural stereotypes and how he avoids exploiting people. Over a cup of tea, naturally Read more »| 02 Jul 2013 -
News
Manchester International Festival: Art As Experience
With pulses racing for the likes of Kenneth Branagh and Massive Attack, Manchester International Festival's visual arts strand can feel a little overlooked. We unearth an interactive programme, and talk to Inne Goris about her thoughtful film installation Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
David Batchelor: Flatlands @ Fruitmarket
Conventionally marginalised or removed from fine art, colour is tacky, tasteless; a distraction from the purity of intellect of serious artistic endeavour ev... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Galleries
In Pictures: Leith Late 2013
In Pictures: Leith Late 2013 Some images from Leith Late 2013: Photography by David P Scott Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Zoe Williams @ SWG3, until 6 Jul
The atmosphere’s heavy with incense, there’s an altar and the sound piece is paced at the rate of meditative breathing. Some controversial cultic... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Emerging Artists
GSA Degree Show 2013: Animal Farm
On our tireless quest for emerging talent we journey to the Central Belt degree shows and scan the plain for infinite marvellous spectacles. OK, maybe not tireless... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
News
Rachel Goodyear: Creatures of the Night
As she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition at The International 3, Rachel Goodyear invites us to her studio and into a parallel reality inhabited by uncannily human animals, and animalistic humans Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Showcase
The Skinny Showcase: Flo Gordon
Showcase: Flo Gordon All my work is a stew. Here are the ingredients: * 200g Humour/Subconscious Humour A lot of my work has sprouted from an aversion to t... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Jeremy Deller @ The Venice Biennale
The notion that the work presented by each country at the Venice Biennale is somehow a reflection of its national identity is these days pretty defunct. But ... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013