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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ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: May 2025
If silly stuff’s your vice, May’s got it in spades, with shows from John-Luke Roberts and Tom Lawrinson and a full-blown Clown Extravaganza on the horizon Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: May 2025
Linder Sterling confronts patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality in her first retrospective in Scotland, while Jeremy Deller invites you to a collaborative punk performance in Dundee Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
MusicChat Pile @ QMU, Glasgow, 23 Apr
Impossibly affable Oklahomans Chat Pile bring their mix of barrelling riffs and harrowing storytelling to Glasgow for a show that's equal parts ferocious and fun Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
FilmCorin Sworn on new film On Weaving
As part of their residency at Alchemy Film and Arts, artists Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn have made On Weaving, a film considering the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein through the lens of their modernist home. Sworn tells us more Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
ArtGLOW Up: Edinburgh College's GLOW Festival returns
Edinburgh College's GLOW Festival is back; with a year's worth of graduate projects open to the public this summer, here are our top picks Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
ArtCiara Phillips: Undoing It @ Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Canadian-Irish artist Ciara Phillips impresses with her dynamic large-scale prints that transform Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art Read more »| 24 Apr 2025
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MusicSpotlight On... her picture
Ahead of releasing their latest single, Reasons I Tried, we catch up with Anny Tahaney of Glasgow trio her picture Read more »| 24 Apr 2025 -
MusicBrooke Combe @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 19 Apr
Brooke Combe more than rises to the occasion of headlining the iconic Barrowlands stage Read more »| 22 Apr 2025 -
BooksGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Emily Henry's latest romance novel is her most ambitious yet, featuring interwoven timelines and narratives alongside the usual sizzling chemistry Read more »| 22 Apr 2025 -
MusicSUMAC & Moor Mother – The Film
SUMAC and Moor Mother cinematically raise the stakes on their collaborative record, The Film Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
MusicViagra Boys – viagr aboys
On their latest album, Viagra Boys return to form, offering the inner workings of a corroded mind in musical form Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
BooksHappiness and Love by Zoe Dubno
The contemporary art scene of New York is skewered in this witty if somewhat surface level novel Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
MusicMaria Somerville – Luster
On her 4AD debut, Maria Somerville redefines dreampop, goth, shoegaze and more, stitching colour into a tapestry of blacks, whites and greys Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
MusicNazar – Demilitarize
Demilitarize sees Nazar trade the harsh sonic terrain of the Angolan Civil War for more delicate reflections on illness, love, and resilience Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
MusicCloth – Pink Silence
Glaswegian duo Cloth suceed in letting go on their third studio album Read more »| 21 Apr 2025