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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MusicThe Melvins team up with Krist Novoselic on new LP
The Melvins have announced the release of new album Basses Loaded on 3 Jun, which sees them team up with a series of guest bassists including Nirva... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Art
RSA New Contemporaries award winners named
Some of Scotland's best emerging artists have received more than £30,000 of awards and bursaries at this year's RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh. Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
FilmThe Clan
Pablo Trapero’s real-life Argentinian drama is at once a thrilling and haunting look at the country's dark history Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
FilmCelebrating the Cinematography of The Witch
Ahead of its UK release, we take a look at the wickedly good visuals of period horror film The Witch via stills from the film and onset photography. The Wit... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Film
One Floor Below
In this slow-burn thriller from Romanian director Radu Muntean, a bourgeois family man is left with a moral conundrum Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans @ GoMA
Tillmans' work returns to Glasgow after an excellent show in 2012; but this time the work loses its edge with a poor presentation in GoMA. Read more »| 07 Mar 2016
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Film
Most Exciting Women Directors of the Last Decade
To mark International Women's Day, we take the opportunity to sing the praises of 14 of the most talented female filmmakers to have emerged over the last decade. Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Music
Baio @ King Tuts, 23 February
Chris Baio is one rather clever little cookie. On top of a Columbia University degree in Russian and mathematics and comprising one third of Ivy League afro-... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Music
Doune The Rabbit Hole 2016 line-up unveiled
The line-up for this year's Doune The Rabbit Hole has been announced, with Cate le Bon, Blanck Mass and C Duncan all set to feature at the Stirling... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Music
Composer-Curator: Emma Welton on A Quiet Night In
As part of new music charity Sound and Music's Composer-Curator programme, Emma Welton is bringing concerts of 'quiet music' to unusual spaces in Exeter and ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Film
16 Years Till Summer
Simple but powerful documentary Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Film
Bridgend
Haunting drama portraying the ecstasy and nihilism of youth in Bridgend, a Welsh town that has been rocked by its real-life epidemic of teen suicides Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Film
The Daughter
Geoffrey Rush and Paul Schneider star in this familial drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck The Daughter begins with a father-son tension. A... Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: How do I get into Theatre?
Auntie Trash is back and she wants to help you really 'get into' the theatre any which way you can. Spoiler alert: See the shows and help pay the starving artists' bills. You'll love it. Read more »| 07 Mar 2016 -
Film
Bryan M Ferguson on Caustic Gulp and Flamingo
Chlorine cults and masochistic online dating: welcome to the strange and compelling world of Skinny Short Film Award winner Bryan M Ferguson Read more »| 07 Mar 2016