Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtScotland + Venice @ Venice Biennale
One of the most intellectual shows this year at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Scottish Pavilion requires no small investment of your time. Corin Sw... Read more »| 10 Jul 2013 -
ArtScene Change: Marc Chagall at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool's summer blockbuster show re-examines the work of Marc Chagall with a particular focus on his drama and narrative. We travel through the artist's ‘Theatre of Dreams’, with insights from co-curator Stephanie Straine Read more »| 10 Jul 2013 -
Art
Johanna Basford @ DCA
The latest offering from Dundee Contemporary Arts showcases the work of one of the city's very own art graduates, artist and illustrator Johanna Basford. Gra... Read more »| 10 Jul 2013 -
ArtAntti Laitinen @ Finnish Pavilion, Venice Biennale
It might be easy to dismiss the series of reconstructed birch trees outside Finland’s pavilion at the Giardini as yet another tree-centric piece of env... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Music
Star & Dagger – Tomorrowland Blues
Two-thirds of Star & Dagger's membership (White Zombie's Sean Yseult, Dava She Wolf from Cycle Sluts from Hell) should give budding listeners some idea o... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Comedy
Babies aren’t cute. Especially when they’re just born.
Recently my friend had a baby and invited me to come to visit them in the hospital. I was thrilled. And by thrilled, I mean infuriated Read more »| 09 Jul 2013
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MusicFoals' Yannis Philipakkis looks to festival season
Foals’ ambitious third album Holy Fire has elevated the Oxford five-piece to the next level, but Yannis Philippakis is hungry for more Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Music
Sam Thomas – Blind Theatre
On the cover of Blind Theatre, a young boy fashions spaceships from boxes and bottles while behind, a full-size shuttle blasts itself skywards. It&rsquo... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Music
Ikonika – Aerotropolis
Emerging onto London’s bass scene with 2010’s Contact, Love, Want, Have, Ikonika (aka Sara Abdel-Hamid) presented an infectious amalgamation... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Art
Own Art: GRID: Going Places
Innovative Glasgow-based interactive art map GRID comes to Edinburgh – we chat to its creators, Sebastian Gorton Kavik and Arron Sands Read more »| 09 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Heads Down: Shangaan Electro Hit the UK
South Africa's Shangaan Electro craze reduces crowds the world over to jibbering masses of jelly-like limbs. The movement's head honcho, Dog, reveals the drive behind his fervid, furious dance phenomenon Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Making the Grade: Meet Midland
Meet Midland, one of the UK's most exciting producers, who this month marks the launch of his own label, Graded, with a new EP Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Film
Hero Worship: Sam Raimi
Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the forthcoming The World's End, enthuses about his filmmaking idol, Sam Raimi Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Film
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Arriving in cinemas just after the NSA surveillance scandal and the one-year anniversary of Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, the release of W... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
Art
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