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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ArtECA Degree Show 2016: Landscape Architecture
This year's crop of Landscape Architecture students are all set to disprove the art student stereotypes with a dynamic and ambitious show Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
ArtECA Degree Show 2016: Graphic Design and Illustration
There's a wealth of eclectic ideas flowing forth from ECA's Graphic Design and Illustration students – we throw ourselves headlong into the melee for a closer look... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
MusicEmma Pollock @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 13 May
"I'll try not to talk too much tonight," says Emma Pollock before she's even played a note. "More time for, you know, the actual songs." Generous in performa... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
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ECA Degree Show 2016: Architecture
As the Architecture Degree Show looms closer, step into the studio and take a behind-the-scenes look at the work that will be on display Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
ArtECA Degree Show 2016: Design, Film and TV & Animation
Across Design disciplines, Film and TV and Animation, it's all about experimentation with traditional techniques, cutting edge technology, ringed by a sense of social responsibility. Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
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Restless Natives: Happy Meals @ Collective, 14 May
It's Saturday night and the Calton is bouncing. The bars in and around the Gallowgate are stowed out. An Easter Rising commemorative march has finished just ... Read more »| 17 May 2016
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This Week in Scottish Art: Dundee Degree Show
It's the first degree show of the year with Dundee stepping up to open the season officially. There are also closing parties from David Dale and Transmission, student presentations in The Art School, and a new publication from Collective Gallery. Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
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Restless Natives: Future of the Left @ St Luke's, 14 May
It’s a sparse crowd that greets last-minute addition Chrissy Barnacle, but those lucky early revellers are treated to something pretty special. Her off... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
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ECA Degree Show 2016: Performance Costume Design
From epic Icelandic folktales to Caryl Churchill's explorations of feminist power structures, this year's Performance Costume graduates explore a fascinating array of sources and themes Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
Film
James Bobin interview: from Ali G to Hollywood
James Bobin helped bring the Muppets into the 21st century, but can he rescue Tim Burton's garish Alice in Wonderland series? We chat to the Hampshire-born ... Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
MusicMinor Victories @ The Art School, Glasgow, 6 May
There’s an argument to be made that this shouldn’t work. A project without location, material recorded remotely, its protagonists first together ... Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
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Restless Natives: Ghostface Killah @ St Luke's, 13 May
“I want to see ONE THOUSAND PHONES,” bellows ol' Ghost with regal expectation, larger than life under St Luke’s stained glass windows. &ldq... Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
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On the Money: Maynard James Keenan interviewed
As Puscifer set sail for their European debut, founder Maynard James Keenan meditates on the influence of surrealist British comedy and the lingering threat of a Trumpian dystopia Read more »| 16 May 2016 -
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The Grand Gestures Remixed: Album Premiere
Listen to an exclusive stream of The Grand Gestures' remix album, ahead of their final live show in Glasgow later this month. Remixed features re... Read more »| 13 May 2016 -
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Swan Lake @ Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 19 April
No doubt puritanical fans of Tchaikovky’s legendary ballet will have some criticism of Scottish Ballet’s newest production – within the cor... Read more »| 13 May 2016