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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Art
But is it art?
I know what response I don't want. I don't want people to think it's crap. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Albert Watson - Frozen
Watson's photographs introduce you to a dizzy riot of colour, images riddled with fantasy but rooted in realism. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Tracey Moffatt
Sexy sun kissed stereotypes adorne the walls of the Stills gallery as part of Australian artist Tracey Moffatt's kitsch, exotic environments that combine to ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Size Matters: Ron Mueck
Mueck's work can transport the viewer into Alice's Wonderland Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Rembrandt 400
A small dimly lit room downstairs and twenty-eight glorious etchings. 'Rembrandt four hundred: Masterprints from the National Gallery of Scotland' is utterly... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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MOYNA FLANNIGAN 'well, Well'
At this time of year, when a walk down the Royal Mile leaves you feeling like a well-chewed piece of gum, it can be difficult to distinguish the entertainers... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Art
Girlpower & Boyhood
On entering the Talbot Rice Gallery, the introduction helpfully informs us that, "Many of the artist…are hotly tipped for greater recognition" and that th... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Being There: Harry Benson's fifty years of photojournalism
This, Harry Benson's first solo exhibition in the U.K., is long overdue. Not only are Benson's photos all fascinating in their own right, but these highligh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
BooksDavid Sedaris
An alternative Garrison Keillor, with waspishly queer observations and cheery tales of Dinah the Christmas Whore replacing good old down-home wisdom Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
Forna's talent lies within her ability to construct myth around the hard facts of reality. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Alan Berliner
Wait a second, I'm just going to visit a fruit juice which I'm going to drink while we speak. OK. I got a terrible night's sleep last night. I had a sleeping... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
The Romeo and Juliet Syndrome
A play about lost love, Romeo and Juliet, fairies, librarians, Valentines Day and, worst of all, journalists, may not sound like an ideal way to start your c... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Max Romeo Afterparty, Orange Street, Studio 24, Edinburgh, Aug 25
Romeo has lead a career spanning the highs and lows of reggae stardom and has featured samples in the Prodigy's Out of Space and Jay-Z's Lucifer Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicThe Twilight Singers: Too Tough to Die
if I pull out a Whigs song at a show, you can bet your ass that my heart is all the way behind it Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Des Moines Riot & Graeme Mearns Band, Henry's Cellar Bar, Aug 8
Sorry, pseudo-rockers, but Hell's lounge has its bandstand reserved. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006