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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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 3-9 May
There is a whole range of performances, panels and openings this week, with Sue Tompkins in Edinburgh, the MFA Interim Show in Glasgow, archive discussions in Dundee, and much more besides! Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
FilmRan
Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning take on Shakespeare's King Lear comes to Blu-ray to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death A battle rages and the... Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Film
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Released as part of The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection from Arrow Films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is one of the German filmmaker's finest achievments Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Music
Ought @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 Apr
Although Broadcast’s low-lying stage has remained unaltered since Ought last played here 2 years ago, the Montreal art-punk quartet’s personal st... Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Comedy
Comedian Seymour Mace on being "Niche as Fuck"
Self-confessed bitter old man Seymour Mace talks to us ahead of the final outing of his Foster's Award-nominated show, Niche as Fuck, at Liverpool's 81 Renshaw Street Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
FilmNathan Barley – Why being cool is overrated
We take a look back at Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's seminal sitcom Nathan Barley with Charlie Condou, who played ridiculous magazine editor Jonatton Ye... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016
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Music
White Lung – Paradise
2014’s sterling Deep Fantasy saw White Lung thrashing away under a mushroom cloud of eardrum-rattling guitar effects – a triumphant honing of eve... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
ArtJupiter Artland nominated for Museum of the Year
Jupiter Artland sculpture garden near Edinburgh has been nominated for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year. The outdoor gallery, situated in the groun... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
Art
Jupiter Artland 2016: Garden of Earthly Delights
What does it feel like living in Scotland's only contemporary sculpture park and waking up to a Marc Quinn every day? Nicky Wilson tells all and gives some details about the upcoming spring and summer programmes before Jupiter reopens this month. Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Film
Nespresso Talents 2016: Vote for your favourite
Nespresso Talents 2016 shortlist has been announced and it’s up to you to take to Facebook or Twitter to choose the three films to be sc... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Theatre
Liverpool's Lantern Theatre to close
The Lantern Theatre in Liverpool is set to close its doors for the final time on 31 July 2016. Widely appreciated for providing the city with new theatre si... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Music
Outblinker – The Remains of Water Peck EP
A three-track sneak peek of the album due out later in the year, the latest EP from the Glasgow five-piece balances precariously between the ecumenical and t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Music
JC Flowers – Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership
Londoners JC Flowers are certainly full of ideas. Baudrillard is loftily cited on the press release, suggesting a knowing angle to their classicist psych-pop... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
Ghold – Pyr
OWCH. You know that feeling when someone repeatedly bashes your skull with a meat tenderiser until it caves and the bone splinters and the pain goes fuz... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
MusicFalse Advertising – Brainless EP
Just a heads-up; you can disregard the Mancunian band's moniker and the EP's title. Over five tracks on Brainless, their follow-up to last year's stupid... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016