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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FilmAs If I Am Not There
Samira is a young woman from Sarajevo who moves to a tiny village to take up a post as a supply teacher. It is her first job and her first time away from her... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
FilmMan Of Aran
Not a new release but a recent discovery here at The Skinny's DVD reviews, this disc accompanies the British Sea Power album of the same name and features a ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Theatre
Love Hurts @ Tron
Love at first Bite Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
FilmMy Voyage to Italy
Martin Scorsese’s four-hour expedition through Italian Cinema 101 is well-motivated, with the director and renowned cinephile aiming to redress the Hol... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Music
Roots Manuva – 4everevolution
A Rodney Hylton Smith full-length usually comes with a guarantee of three things – rhymes that vary from the profound to the inexplicable, a hefty dose... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
ArtGSA Degree Show 2011
Images from the Glasgow School of Art degree show 2011. Photography from Martin Barker Read more »| 19 Sep 2011
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Art
Christian Newby @ Transmission
A large-scale, intensely patterned marbled-ink drawing decorates a freestanding wall in Transmission’s basement space. It’s stunning and compelli... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art
ECA Degree Show 2011
Some images from the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2011 Photography from Ross McLean Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art
'You, Me, Something Else' @ GoMA 16 Sep 2011 - 18 March 2012
Works by some of Glasgow’s best known international artists are brought together for an exhibition of sculpture at the Gallery of Modern Art... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Music
Teletextile – Glass
It’s difficult to fault Pamela Martinez’s Brooklyn-based Teletextile project in terms of craftsmanship. The songs here are stitched together from... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Obake – Obake
In Japanese folklore, an obake can either be a ghost or a shapeshifter, but no matter what definition you choose to adopt it’s an apt moniker for this ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Pombagira - Iconoclast Dream
Way back in ’96, San Jose stoners Sleep recorded an album by the name of Dopesmoker and, while they weren’t too pleased with the label run-around... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Roll the Dice – In Dust
This Stockholm-based analogue synth duo, comprised of Malcolm Pardon and Fever Ray's Peder Mannerfelt, use their second LP to explore the same kinds of unash... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Silver Seas – Chateau Revenge
The third LP from Nashville's Silver Seas sees them further honing their brand of melancholy, country-inflected jangle-pop. It's deeply nostalgic music, but ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011 -
Music
Evangelista – In Animal Tongue
Many of Constellation’s flagship acts – GYBE in particular – peddle an overwrought apocalypticism that has come to feel increasingly tired ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011