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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MusicLabel of Love: Night School Records
Ahead of their 15th anniversary celebrations in Glasgow at the end of the month, Night School Records label boss Michael Kasparis is feeling nostalgic Read more »| 21 Aug 2026 -
MusicSpotlight On... Selkie
Ahead of releasing her debut EP inWaves, which she's celebrating with a launch show at The Glad Cafe next week, we catch up with Glasgow-based ambient pop artist Selkie Read more »| 20 Aug 2026 -
MusicJulia Holter – Materia
Experimental composer Julia Holter returns to 2024's Something in the Room She Moves to tend to some unfinished business Read more »| 20 Aug 2026 -
MusicWestside Cowboy – It Goes On
Manchester outfit Westside Cowboy release their debut album, performing the same movement throughout to (mostly) irrestible effect Read more »| 20 Aug 2026 -
ArtGut Feelings: Jasleen Kaur and Capturing the Everyday
Photographer and writer Miriam Morris reflects on the work of Jasleen Kaur and how photography can preserve the insignificant for a time of significance Read more »| 20 Aug 2026 -
BooksAmy Abdelnoor on her debut novel Ever Land
Ahead of her appearance at this year's Book Fringe, Amy Abdelnoor introduces her debut novel Ever Land, a haunting ghost story set in Palestine Read more »| 20 Aug 2026
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FilmEIFF 2026: Skintown
The euphoria of early 90s rave culture and the genuine terror of the Troubles collide in Kieron J Walsh’s Skintown, a lively tale of friendship set in 1994's Enniskillen Read more »| 19 Aug 2026 -
MusicL'Rain – fata morgana
On fata morgana, L’Rain continues to move in a lane all her own Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
MusicOpen Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal – DOOMED!
On DOOMED!, Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have found a pocket that keeps you coming back – this is easily up there with one of the best hip-hop releases of the year Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
ArtInternationalism Strains at the Venice Biennale
Scotland + Venice Emerging Writer Samuel Riddy considers the pitfalls of the Venice Biennale's logic of global impartiality through the controversies surrounding the Russian and Israeli pavilions Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
FilmDaniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on Faces of Death
The 1978 gorefest Faces of Death has been retooled, but this is no lazy IP-mining remake. Filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei explain how their film is digging into our troubling relationship with screen violence Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: I Want Your Sex
Gregg Araki is back with a new film exploring the relationship between an artist and her much younger employee; unfortunately, the sex in this sex comedy has a mechanical music video sheen Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Education of Jane Cumming
So many elements of The Education of Jane Cumming are great – the cast, music, period detail, writing – but it rushes its conclusion, delivering much of the story's dramatic details as text title cards during the credits Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Snapshot
Director Joseph Archer and writer Cathy Wippell give the found footage horror subgenre a shot in the arm with the eerie Snapshot, which is presented as a proto documentary from the late 1880s that reveals new information about Jack the Ripper Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
MusicPhoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
The third studio album from Phoebe Bridgers is stitched into near-perfection with love, patience and resilience Read more »| 17 Aug 2026