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: Lust & Fairytales
The Edinburgh Art Festival continues this week, and Summerhall unveils its new suite of exhibitions, while Glasgow and Dundee keep pace with new exhibitions and events from the Glasgow Print Studio, the Common Guild and Generator. Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
MusicThe Black Dog – Neither/Neither
Sheffield's The Black Dog are as politically "fucking furious" as ever, the track titles on their 12th album doubling as a hit list. Their latest targets are... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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Advance Base – Nephew In The Wild
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's Owen Ashworth returns to his Advance Base moniker for a second album, following 2012’s A Shut-In’s Praye... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – August 2015
This month we look forward to clubbing at the Fringe, with a few shouts for Glasgow and Dundee too Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
Art
Own Art: Edinburgh Art Festival
We preview what's on at the galleries hosting the Own Art scheme in the Scottish capital Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
BooksRequiem for a Soldier by Oleg Pavlov
A grotesque, caricatural portrait of the last days of the Soviet Empire is offered by Pavlov in his latest work to be translated into English. Alyosha, ... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015
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Books
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano dedicates this book to his armed Carabinieri bodyguards and the 51,000 hours they’ve spent together since previous work Gomorrah sent h... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
Books
The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock
Set in London in the 1950s, Michael Moorcock's The Whispering Swarm blends autobiography and fantasy – aiming, he says, for a sort of book he... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
FilmThe Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller makes an impressive debut with this frank comic-drama, based on cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical novel. Set in boho ... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Crystal Moselle on The Wolfpack: Home Movies
Seven bright kids spent a childhood locked up in their apartment, with movies as their only friends. We talk to documentary filmmaker Crystal Moselle about her time with the pack Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Hard to Be a God
Aleksei German spent 15 years directing this adaptation of the classic Russian sci-fi novel only to die before its release. Few filmmakers could imagine crea... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream @ Bard in the Botanics
It's the most commonly performed script to feature in Bard in the Botanics' 2015 season, but Emily Reutlinger's 20th century take on A Midsummer Night's... Read more »| 02 Aug 2015 -
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Integrity Painting Prize on How to Win at Art
The abstract voice of Integrity Painting Prize, a group show in Glasgow's Glue Factory, made for some deadpan cheek on the subject of art competitions Read more »| 02 Aug 2015 -
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Scottish art news for August 2015: Ambiguity, ESP, and the EAF
August is all but dominated by the Edinburgh Art Festival, but there are still noteworthy openings and events in Glasgow and Dundee Read more »| 01 Aug 2015 -
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Roman Signer @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Roman Signer’s particular vocabulary of objects is immediately recognisable: his ubiquitous red canoe, black rubber wellingtons and red tent all evoke ... Read more »| 01 Aug 2015