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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FilmQuiet Revolution: Haifaa al-Mansour on Wadjda
"The ultimate goal is just to make a film, not to create conflict with people" – Haifaa al-Mansour Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Paterson's Land
Part of Moray House, Paterson's Land will be transformed during the Fringe into a temporary home for some of the finest work Scottish Opera and other high-profile theatre companies have to offer Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
ArtCathy Wilkes @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
Two strips of aged floral fabric sway slightly, caught in the movement of the many gallery visitors pulsing through the central pavilion of the Giardini. Lik... Read more »| 17 Jul 2013 -
Music
Kelburn Garden Party, 6-7 Jul
With tickets sold out before the party begins, there is a sense that Kelburn Garden Party has come of age this year, cementing its position as one of the jew... Read more »| 17 Jul 2013 -
MusicNazoranai / Jer Reid & Friends @ Stereo, 10 July
Following Keiji Haino’s rapturously-received solo performance at Tramway last year, his return to Glasgow as one-third of Nazoranai feels like a signif... Read more »| 16 Jul 2013 -
MusicUltramagnetic MCs @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 10 July
Two of Glasgow's finest emcees kick things off, Gasp performing choice cuts from his grim and gritty new album A Series of Fortunate Misunderstandings, ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013
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Music
Laki Mera – Turn All Memory to White Noise
Laki Mera’s second album (third if you count 2008’s Clutter, which the band apparently doesn’t for whatever reason) emerges in the wak... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Art
Jasmina Cibic @ Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The view that confronts you on the approach to Slovenia’s Pavilion may initially be somewhat confusing: a chronologically anonymous steel sign proclaim... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Books
Canongate: Life Begins at 40
Not content to gaze lovingly at their last 40 years of success, Canongate are asking the nation's cultural heavyweights to help them discover the next generation of movers and shakers. True to form, it looks pretty spectacular Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Film
Post Tenebras Lux
Many interpreted Silent Light’s Dreyer-referencing classicism as indicative of a shift in Carlos Reygadas’ methods; a shake-up that would temper ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Film
Persona non Greta: Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha
In the last few years Greta Gerwig has graduated from the queen of the lo-fi mumblecore movement to US indie's most exciting young actor. We speak to the Californian about her brilliant new film Frances Ha Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Music
Gasp – A Series of Fortunate Misunderstandings
Gasp is a veteran of the Scottish hip-hop scene, a Glasgow emcee who has long had a fearsome reputation as both a battle rapper and a writer, and member of T... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Art
Kimsooja @ Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The central conceit behind Kimsooja’s exhibition is simple enough – that of the presentation of two spaces, one large, windows obscured somewhat ... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Art
Alfredo Jaar @ Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale
On entry to the darkened Chilean Pavilion one is immediately confronted by a large illuminated photo of what one learns is Italian avantgarde darling Lu... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Art
Lee Kit: You (you). @ Hong Kong pavilion, Venice Biennale
Hong Kong's participation in this year's plethora of shows is certainly not as spectacular as some other exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. Instead, Lee... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013