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Dundee Zine Fest, Good Press, and Scotland's Zine Scene
For such a humble object, the zine has become quite the cultural force. Typically a small-circulation, self-published collection of texts and images – ... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Festivals
Great British Mysteries @ Pleasance Courtyard
Great British Mysteries voyage us back to Tudor times. Will Close plays Teddy – a seafaring dipstick who idolises Sir Walter Raleigh. Meanwhile, Rose R... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 16-30 Oct: Scottish International Storytelling Festival & more
It's your local friendly events editor, refusing to acknowledge second lockdown and instead focusing on far cuter things. Did you know, for example, that we ... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
Clubs
Scottish Hogmanay Clubbing Highlights
Optimo b2b Domenic Cappello @ Fireside, Edinburgh, 22 DecKick off your Christmas weekend with Optimo, along with one half of Harri & Domenic at the Fires... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
Festivals
Jess Robinson on her new show Impressive
Adele has been causing Jess Robinson problems. The kind of problems that take a toll on an impressionist who is trying to find her – or is that Adele's... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Art
State of the Art Nation: To Dundee and beyond
Away from the clamour of other, bigger, metropolitan art sites, Dundee is proving more than capable of holding its own. A thriving, close-knit scene of artis... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Art
Kill Your Value Judgements
If any members of the DCA crowd were excitedly looking forward to another year’s feast of experimental music from the justly renowned Kill Your Timid N... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Art
They Had Four Years @ Generator Review
For the past decade the Generator’s annual graduate showcase, They Had Four Years, has firmly established itself as the platform for many a glittering ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Festivals
Dundee Live Festival
What is Dundee Live? An innovative, artist-led, public art and performance festival – the culmination of a year's activity by D-AiR (Dundee Artists i... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Art
SMILE @ Embassy
A spaced-out cosmic bliss suffuses much of the work at the Embassy’s new show. Channelling the spirits of Sienna Miller and the 21st century satirist M... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Art
Infinite Jest @ DCA
The word 'epic' was at one time used in the context of a film or poem, but these days it’s an adjective for anything, what the Urban Dictionary descr... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Art
LIFE IS OVER! If You Want It @ Cooper Gallery
LIFE IS OVER! If You Want It sees Tracey McKenna and Edwin Janssen use the exhibition as a space for discussion and reflection, staging various events and ta... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Art
Martin Boyce: No Reflections @ DCA
Following the success of his commission for the 2009 Venice Bienale, Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation No Reflections arrives in the comparatively pr... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Art
Alex Frost - The Connoisseurs @ DCA
On entering Alex Frost’s solo show at the DCA, the visitor is met with a mural covering the whole of one wall displaying the WiFi logo rendered in swim... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Art
Public Image @ The Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Gallery’s new group show Public Image takes as its theme the ambiguous relationship between ‘us’ and images. Even the greenest o... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Art
FIELD: By Means of Matter @ Generator Projects
Field is a London-based artists’ collective united by circumstance and a common interest in space and materiality. This eight-strong unit journeyed fro... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Art
Annual General Karaoke
Creative types from across Scotland are invited to make a karaoke video and perform their chosen song in Dundee on 18 September. Buses will be chartered... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Art
Jonathan Horowitz @ DCA
For the screening of Jonathan Horowitz’s 20-minute film Apocalypto Now, the audience is seated in a chamber that’s declared entirely carbon-neutr... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Art
Estrangement @ Cooper Gallery, Until 16 Feb
In the Cooper Gallery’s new show Estrangement, the work of four emerging international artists delivers a filmic installation that portrays a haunting,... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Art
Mass Damper @ Generator Projects
At the centre of George Henry Longly’s show Mass Damper, in the middle of a darkened gallery, a snake eats a mouse on an endless loop. The DVD is shot ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Art
Robin Thomson @ Generator Projects
Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Robin Thomson returned to Dundee recently for a two-week gallery residency at Generator Projects, putting together an epic and... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
Art
Manfred Pernice @ DCA
There’s a freestanding structure in the middle of the DCA’s main gallery. Rather crudely assembled from chipboard, each of its quadrants is a dif... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Art
They Had Four Years @ Generator
They Had Four Years, the annual exhibition of Duncan of Jordanstone graduates a year on from qualification, has by now established itself as a hardy perennia... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Art
It’s Burning Everywhere: Thomas Hirschhorn @ DCA
In the supplementary notes to Thomas Hirschhorn’s show It’s Burning Everywhere, there’s a telling quote from Dostoyevsky’s The Posses... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Art
Julian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Art
Dundee Degree Show 2010
After last year’s sabbatical in the Greenmarket’s Vision building, the 2010 edition of Dundee’s degree show returns to its alma mater at th... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Festivals
Jerk @ Traverse
Puppets are violent things, as any British audience must surely be aware, having been raised on the slapstick of Punch and Judy and the domestic dramas of So... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Art
Dundee Degree Show 2011
Degree show time rolls round to Dundee once more, and the class of 2011 pitches up to offer the world its wares. With almost 300 students, 11 undergraduate p... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Art
Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
At once poetic and arbitrary, Lost Lake, Chalk Burst is named after two colours of Dulux paint. The title would seem to cutely explore the gap between art an... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago