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: Embassy, DJCAD & more
This week, there's a photocopier in CCA, books from the most well-known artists of the 20th century at Dundee's art college, and openings for exciting shows at Embassy, David Dale and Telfer Gallery. Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
ArtTied Too Neatly: Tadeusz Kantor @ Summerhall
Summerhall don't show the requisite sensitivity in a recent exhibition of Taduesz Kantor Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
TheatreIntroducing Royal Exchange’s Company of Elders
Theatre can be empowering – whatever your age. We meet Brenda Hickey, who found a new lease of life after retirement when she joined the Royal Exchange’s Company of Elders Read more »| 14 Sep 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Ant Hamlyn
Ant Hamlyn explores the performance of viewing through technological encounters with sculptural objects. Read more »| 13 Sep 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Laura Porteous
Spatial understanding and representation is the main concept behind the work of Laura Porteous. Read more »| 12 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
Arthur Miller: Rapture Theatre on his centenary
Michael Emans talks about Arthur Miller's centenary and how Rapture Theatre chose to honour it this autumn Read more »| 11 Sep 2015
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Music
Foo Fighters @ Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 8 September
“We might do some stupid shit now and again," Dave Grohl confesses of that onstage tumble in Gothenburg, the broken leg and subsequent three month dela... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Music
Tame Impala @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 8 September
A sold-out Barrowland crowd will rarely disappoint, but the barrier-pushing, clamouring audience on Tuesday night is declared “best of the tour” ... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Music
Stream Ought's new album Sun Coming Down
Listen to Sun Coming Down, the new album from Montreal post-punks Ought, ahead of its release next week Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
The Lyceum at 50: A Theatre Celebration
Mark Thomson on Waiting for Godot, funding cuts and The Royal Lyceum Theatre's 50th anniversary. Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Music
Girl Band's Daniel Fox on Holding Hands With Jamie
Dublin’s Girl Band are not a girl band. Nor a rock band, or even a neo-grunge band. So what are they? Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Art
HOME announces Oct 2015-Mar 2016 season
Manchester multi-arts venue HOME announces its Autumn/Winter season of art, theatre and film Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Books
Stirred Poetry on new writing & feminism
The Skinny talks to Manchester poetry collective Stirred Poetry about new writing, equality and speaking out Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Comedy
Paul Smith: Comedy Spotlight
The Hot Water Comedy compere talks Gandhi, geese and crumbling in front of acting royalty Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Books
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
Les Murray's new short story collection is sumptuously satisfying for the patient reader. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015