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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BooksSiri Hustvedt on the gendered gaze in art
Siri Hustvedt's collection of essays on art, sex and the mind is now out in paperback, so we catch up with the highly respected writer to engage with the key themes of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women Read more »| 05 Oct 2017 -
TheatreMental Health Takes Centre Stage at SMHAF
With Scotland’s only arts and mental health festival set to begin, The Skinny takes a look at the theatre arm of this year’s festival, and asks, has the topic of mental health finally become accepted by the wider arts community? Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
Film
T2 Trainspotting dominates Bafta Scotland nominations
The sequel to Trainspotting picks up five nominations, including a clean sweep in the Best Actor category Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
Music
Kathryn Joseph and James Graham on Out Lines
Kathryn Joseph and James Graham introduce their new community-inspired collaboration, Out Lines Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
FilmScotland's best horror screenings this Halloween
The best Halloween film events happening in Glasgow and Edinburgh this month, including a rerelease of The Shining, horror festival Dundead and Prince of Darkness screened in a church Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
Music
Lorde @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 2 Oct
Lorde sounds amazing tonight, in what seems likely to be the last time we'll see her away from the arenas she'll soon be calling home Read more »| 04 Oct 2017
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Clubs
elrow announce Edinburgh Halloween line-up
The DJ line-up for elrow's Halloween Haunted House in Edinburgh this month has been announced this morning Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
MusicBo Ningen @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 24 Sep
It's a treat to have Bo Ningen in Broadcast's cosy surrounds tonight, where their gloriously overwhelming noise is amplified tenfold Read more »| 04 Oct 2017 -
Music
Django Django help celebrate Assembly Rooms' history
Scottish musicians and bands like Django Django, Pictish Trail and Siobhan Wilson help celebrate Assembly Rooms' 230-year anniversary with an update of the famous Peers Ball Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2017 Horoscopes
Animals, Halloween costumes and toilet paper issues feature in Mystic Mark's October horoscopes... Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Art
Erica Eyres @ Queens Park Railway Club, Glasgow
Erica Eyres' exhibition Alone and I comprises subtly unsettling film and ceramic works, featuring different representations of body insides, limbs and trauma Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Art
Kate Davis @ Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
In Kate Davis' solo show at Stills, she brings together multiple strands of her practice from the previous few years, including film, photographic and drawn works Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Film
The best film events in Scotland in October
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from festivals Africa in Motion, Document and Scotland Loves Anime to celebrations of Claire Denis, John Hughes and Charlie Kaufman Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Music
Callum Easter – Find A Way (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Find A Way, taken from Callum Easter's mini-album Delete Forever Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
Film
Armando Iannucci on satire, Trump and The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci is back with the strange and brilliant The Death of Stalin. We talk to the director about navigating the line between comedy and tragedy, the film’s unplanned parallels to Donald Trump and the role of satire in today’s society Read more »| 03 Oct 2017