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Doors Open Days "If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written... But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells... Read more »

Degree show season is upon us, and art students across the land have been working themselves to the bone, predictably with countless sleepless nights to get ... Read more »

What a dark week it has been for the Scottish film scene. The closure of Filmhouse in Edinburgh, The Belmont in Aberdeen and the Edinburgh International... Read more »

Edinburgh International Festival The Fringe has been delivering previews galore since Monday but it never feels like the Edinburgh Festivals have truly begu... Read more »

V&A Dundee Opening Weekend The time has come, the wait is finally over, and other melodramatic statements, which inevitably lead up to the announcement ... Read more »

Three cheers for the return of LeithLate (8&9 Jun), following a break last year due to funding issues – hip hip hooray! We’re teaming up with... Read more »

Joanna Hogg’s much-anticipated followup to her heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir hits cinemas this weekend and we ... Read more »

With Douglas Stuart's 2020 debut novel Shuggie Bain – a tender and tenacious tale of poverty and addiction based on Stuart’s child... Read more »

Street art has been exploding in Glasgow over the last few years and that’s partly due to the success of Yardworks, the festival of urban art... Read more »

Unsubstantiated rumours of Louis CK's proclivity for sexual misconduct have swirled around comedy circles for years, but a New York Times investigation ... Read more »

Under the Olive Tree Saturdays have become days of concerted solidarity, awareness and protests in aid of the Palestinian people, and that’s the case ... Read more »

You might have noticed that the Scottish summer can be a tad temperamental. Therefore, when a warm and reasonably sunny spell like this one we&rsqu... Read more »

Tenement Trail Various venues in Glasgow, 7 OctIt may be getting cold outside, but music festival season isn’t over quite yet. The mighty Tenement Tra... Read more »

Glasgow Print Fair Are your walls looking a bit sad? Do you love supporting local artists? Are you stuck for Christmas present ideas? If you answered yes to... Read more »

Aye Write!, Glasgow's Book Festival, is upon us again, descending on the city across the second half of March. From the brilliant work of Scotland's indie pu... Read more »

Welcome to freedom week. You can now drink alcohol indoors past sundown. You can now have a wee boogie on the dancefloor. You can now go to a gig without the... Read more »

Head east this weekend! Because one of our favourite city music festivals, The Great Eastern, returns with a shimmering lineup of artists to help kick o... Read more »

Record Store Day Record Store Day, the UK’s annual celebration of indie record shops, returns on Saturday (12 Apr). An outrageous list of ne... Read more »

Is there a busier filmmaker in the UK than Mark Cousins? He made four feature films in 2021 alone and is currently touring film festivals with his latest, Th... Read more »

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival  The long-running and essential Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back with a huge lineup delving ... Read more »

This weekend sees the mixed-media exhibition Deluge (3-5 Nov) come to sett studio on Leith Walk, Edinburgh with the aim of spreading awareness and ... Read more »

Glaswegian comedy fans, get set to hammer your bank account this March. The Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns for its 21st birthday edition with ... Read more »

We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »

From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »

Ad Astra Dir. James Gray | Release TBC After taking characters to the New World (The Immigrant) and deep into the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z), J... Read more »

The School of Design offers perspectives on common themes across various disciplines – 2024's graduating students produce designs with a considered com... Read more »

Books Mount Florida BooksI love Mount Florida Books. Great books, great vibes, and did you know they reinvest their profits into Glasgow’s literary an... Read more »

We – Tallah Brash (Music Editor) and Nadia Younes (Clubs Editor) – were back on the radio today (1 Apr) for our third show on Edinburgh community... Read more »

The curtain has come down on another edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and we're delighted to once again bring you work from the writers ... Read more »

The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »