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The Skinny art guide. We bring you the latest in emerging artists, art exhibition previews, reviews, interviews, and features. Find out the latest art news for Scotland with our news columns, and view emerging artists' portfolios in our monthly Showcase.
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NewsECA Degree Show at risk amid staff and student boycotts
Some ECA final year students have threatened a “Grad Show Boycott” as ECA teaching staff continue a Marking and Assessment Boycott in response to potential job cuts Read more »| 08 May 2026 -
FeaturesTrongate 103: Community, Creativity, and Glasgow's Cultural Crisis
Glasgow's art scene is under threat. In light of City Property's decision to quadruple rent for tenants at Trongate 103, we question the profit-motivated decisions damaging the arts community Read more »| 06 May 2026 -
FeaturesDrawing Strength: Lorna Miller on comics, cartoons and creativity
Glasgow illustrator and artist Lorna Miller has spent decades moving between comics, political cartooning, and design work. We discuss the reinvention and resilience that come with the cycles of creative careers Read more »| 06 May 2026 -
IntersectionsReclaiming Space: 30 Years of Kinning Park Complex
This spring, Kinning Park Complex marks 30 years on from the occupation that saved it, with a 55-day programme of events. We speak to Events and Volunteer Coordinator Ren Clark about community organising, and reimagining the future of third spaces Read more »| 01 May 2026 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: May 2026
It's a photo forward month in Scotland's galleries with three great photography exhibitions to check out, plus a chance to trawl through some iconic fashion history Read more »| 01 May 2026 -
ReviewsPaloma Proudfoot: Glass Delusion @ Collective, Edinburgh
Paloma Proudfoot symbolically avenges Jean-Martin Charcot’s 'hysteric' patients in a sprawling multimedia exhibition Read more »| 30 Apr 2026
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ReviewsStill Glasgow @ GoMA, Glasgow
A new photography exhibition does much to capture the post-industrial city's evolving identity, but its nostalgic slant is overbearing Read more »| 08 Apr 2026 -
InterviewsDavid Breen on first solo exhibition Reverie In Red
David 'PizzaBoy' Breen's first solo exhibition reflects on nostalgia, evoking the fuzzy residue of film, music and early 2000s pop culture Read more »| 02 Apr 2026 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: April 2026
Artists probe migration narratives, energy economies and class through sculpture, installation and site-responsive work as several exhibitions open for spring across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee Read more »| 30 Mar 2026 -
FeaturesGut Feelings: Tai Shani's The Spell
At Jupiter Artland, Tai Shani's sculpture of a blue giant rests in a glass coffin. In this creative response, our Art editor wonders what the hell it's doing there Read more »| 17 Mar 2026 -
FeaturesCCA Glasgow: What We've Lost
With the CCA in Glasgow now in liquidation, its staff left jobless, and its windows boarded up, we speak to some of the artists and programmers who use this space and ask what we've lost in the wreckage and what we can salvage if the CCA returns Read more »| 05 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsArtist Ilana Halperin on retrospective What is Us and What is Earth
Marking her Fruitmarket retrospective, Ilana Halperin tells us why the vastness of geological time calls for an emotional, profoundly human response Read more »| 05 Mar 2026 -
NewsTrongate 103: Glasgow arts organisations face uncertain future
A host of arts organisations face the prospect of leaving their Trongate home – GMAC Film have spoken out, saying they were given an "ultimatum" by their council-owned landlord Read more »| 02 Mar 2026 -
Emerging ArtistsMeet Agora, Glasgow's feminist creative collective
We meet AJ Duncan and Séania Strain of Agora, the collective building space and community for Glasgow’s creative feminists Read more »| 02 Mar 2026 -
NewsScottish Art Highlights: March 2026
Edinburgh makes up for a quiet month for visual art in Glasgow and Dundee, with two new exhibitions opening at Fruitmarket and Collective Read more »| 01 Mar 2026