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
The Glasgow Art School Degree Show
massive in its scope, almost impossible to fully digest, with work of potency often hung next to underdeveloped juvenilia Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Niall MacDonald and Jim Ramsey - That Old Subtle Foe
points towards several preoccupations, neatly sidestepping any chance for proscriptive interpretation Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jonathan Scott and Fred Pederson - Demo
Jonathon Scott's ambition translates into true excellence Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Test Transmissions
explores the idea of television, and its use for art, since independent production became a possibility Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Books
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
This is a wonderful book, lyrically written Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Glasgow Film News: July
Perhaps you'd prefer something unpredictable, dramatic, shocking, exciting, hair-raising and world shaking on the big screen? Look no further. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Comedy
Stars - July 2006
You're reading the horoscopes section. Wise up! It's time to sort it out and take a grip of yourself (no, not like that) Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Local Artist - Steve Pool
...if you have the drive and belief in your work you will get noticed. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
The Demise of Cinema City
Although not every cinema from 'Cinema City' can be held up as a classic of design, efforts ought to be made to retain the best and most representative examples as a consistent part of architectural heritage. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
ArtEdinburgh College of Art Degree Show
Call me biased, but as usual it was the painting and sculpture work which set my pulse racing Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Seamus Harahan / Bedwyr Williams
The way in which Harahan and Williams have risen to the presented challenge contrasts sharply Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Eoghann MacColl
There seemed to be a missing link which prohibited the works from being anything more than a documentation of varying landscapes Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Books
Small Worlds - Children's Books for Grownups [web version - POST ASAP!]
Harry Potter' has taken the shame out of reading children's fiction. But what do books intended for children have to offer adults? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Protokoll - Moving Forward
Perhaps irony wasn't the intention but with such banal recollection Moving Forward is the last thing this does. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Books
Poetry to the People - The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award
Poetry in pamphlet form has become a cutting edge of creativity in Scottish poetry. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006