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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ArtAshanti Harris, Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Beth James responds to Ashanti Harris' exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, in this piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: The Score
The Score is a musical but only by definition. From Johnny Flynn's suitably humble soundtrack to the humdrum roadside cafe setting, it swaps Hollywood glamour for a subdued sweetness Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
MusicSantigold – Spirituals
Santigold is back and ready to shake things up with a sharp left turn into darkness and mysticism Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2022: Athena
Romain Gavras’ bravura third feature, Athena, is an incendiary exploration of police brutality in the Paris banlieues Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
MusicJockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
After a collection of cult EPs, Jockstrap fully reveal their complex and creative identity on I Love You Jennifer B Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmBones and All
Luca Guadagnino reteams with his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age love story about two cannibalistic teens. Despite its YA tropes, it's a film rich in bruised longing and queer desires Read more »| 02 Sep 2022
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MusicTwo Door Cinema Club – Keep On Smiling
While Two Door Cinema Club's latest offering, Keep On Smiling, moves the Northern Irish trio's sound forward, it isn't a game changer Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
MusicJupiter Rising 2022 festival: The Report
Following a torrential downpour on Friday night, we dive into the action of Jupiter Rising's Saturday programme Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
MusicSpotlight On... Tzusan
Following the release of his latest album, WSPSNSYRP, we shine a spotlight on Edinburgh producer and rapper Tzusan Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love
A purse-snatching leads to a spring-autumn romance in this curious German film exploring a middle-aged woman's sexual desire for a much younger man Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
FilmTake One Action returns for its 15th edition
Take One Action, Scotland's festival for social change, is back for its 15th edition. The festival is more compact this year but it's as radical and hopeful for our future as ever. We caught up with festival programmer Xuanlin Tham to find out more Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
ArtIshiuchi Miyako: Capturing Defiance
Ishiuchi Miyako's first solo show in Scotland features her haunting photographs reflecting on conflict, motherhood and the life of Frida Kahlo Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
FilmWhite Noise
Noah Baumbach takes on Don DeLillo’s darkly comic existential novel White Noise, but the film isn't an exercise in laughing at humanity. Baumbach and his cast, who include Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver, are laughing with it Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: September 2022
This month we celebrate new Scottish releases from Slim Wrist, The Little Kicks, Nina Nesbitt, Vagrant Real Estate and more Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Three homeless men win big on the lottery in this French comedy taking on the country's administration systems. The film's message gets lost, though, as the story descends into sentimentality Read more »| 01 Sep 2022