Immigrants make their influence felt, and old masters get worked overMargaret Corcoran shows joyous new paintings at Kevin Kavanagh gallery, while Stephen Lawlor takes on some VenetiansTue Apr 04 2017 - 06:00
Eva International announces Matt Packer as new directorDouglas Hyde Gallery also gets a new curator, with Georgina Jackson taking up the post in MayTue Mar 28 2017 - 15:49
A vision of the future that's a ‘Hunger Games’ in reverse‘Futures’ at RHA showcases idiosyncratic, thought-provoking work in variety of mediaTue Mar 28 2017 - 06:00
The art of the paranormal: telepathy, ectoplasm, poltergeistIn her new show, Modern Experiments, Susan MacWilliam explores the paranormal, from people who see with their hands to those who make ectoplasmWed Mar 22 2017 - 05:00
Surimono: a visually sumptuous Japanese artformThese Japanese prints were often made by groups rather than individual artists, and the result is a stunning attention to detailTue Mar 21 2017 - 06:00
That's SO Graham Norton: Belfast man wins Sky Portrait Artist of the YearGareth Reid’s portrait of his distant relative Irish TV presenter Graham Norton is now on view in the National Gallery of IrelandWed Mar 15 2017 - 13:25
Jonathan Mayhew lets words do the talking in new showThe artist instils each piece with a wealth of thought in the Wexford Arts CentreTue Mar 14 2017 - 06:00
Illuminating our complex relationships with thingsThe things we are drawn to acquire reflect and express our personalities and more: our ideas about ourselves, our aspirations and perhaps our limitations and delusionsTue Mar 07 2017 - 06:00
From the Burren to Belfast: Sean Lynch removes our heritage from its neat packagingThe artist asks probing questions about everything from the Burren interpretive centre to the Belfast Titanic ExperienceTue Feb 28 2017 - 06:00
Poet and painter together rediscover Meath connectionsGerard Smyth and Seán McSweeney’s ‘The Yellow River’ explores their links to countyWed Feb 22 2017 - 05:00
‘Deepdrippings’: Painterly explorations that are both object and surfacePhillip Allen’s doodles grow into densely packed impastos with a curious gravityTue Feb 21 2017 - 06:00
Valuable images rescued from the scrap heapRonan McCrea found a a set of BBC instructional films for mechanical engineering students and from them made something entirely new and full of ideasTue Feb 14 2017 - 06:00
Stephen Brandes relishes his freedom to set in motion myriad ideasBrandes’s garden is a compendium of society’s broken dreams and vain hopesTue Feb 07 2017 - 06:00
Caravaggio: painting's bad boy rock star comes to DublinCaravaggio was tetchy and combative, quick to take offence and always ready for a fight. That energy pours from the works in a new show at the National Gallery of IrelandSat Feb 04 2017 - 05:00
Daphne Wright delivers all the discomforts of home‘Emotional Archaeology’ is rooted in domestic life, but quietly unsettlingTue Jan 31 2017 - 06:00
A race against time in a macabre labyrinthKathlyn O’Brien speculates on identity and mortality in ‘Altered Light’, while Michael Beirne creates strange, hallucinatory visions of his own inner world in ‘Sahasrara’Tue Jan 24 2017 - 06:00
Grafton Architects chosen to curate Venice Architecture BiennaleYvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara ‘delighted to be gifted opportunity’, a significant honour and accolade for Grafton, and for IrelandWed Jan 18 2017 - 14:15
What happens when you spend most of your life photographing one cityJosef Sudek was known as the poet of Prague and after returning to the city after the first World War, he never left it againTue Jan 17 2017 - 06:00
The John Berger album: a 50-year photo-essayPhotographer Jean Mohr’s long friendship with the late writer and art critic meant he was able to produce images full of biographical insightTue Jan 10 2017 - 06:00
Archives reveal recurrent nature of Ireland’s housing crisesExhibition House and Home is a necessary resource for those interested in current issuesTue Jan 03 2017 - 06:00
The visual arts focused attention on marginalised voicesCulture review 2016: The 1916 Commemorations featured a welcome alternative historical narrativeFri Dec 23 2016 - 05:00
Destiny and the Republic: Six artists on what Ireland is nowAs the centenary draws to an end, now is a good time to visit the Pearse MuseumTue Dec 20 2016 - 06:00
Duncan Campbell at IMMA: Turner Prize winner’s new filmShining a light on recent history and exploding reductionism from a backroomThu Dec 15 2016 - 05:00
Building a Pallas: 20 years of modern art in IrelandA 20-year survey in one compact exhibitionTue Dec 13 2016 - 06:00
Art review: unexpected views at ‘Slips and Glimpses’ and the world map reimaginedNew work from Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger and Kathy PrendergastTue Dec 06 2016 - 06:00
Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016: Gerry Davis wins €15,000Limerick graduate takes top prize and for the first time two others are highly commendedTue Nov 29 2016 - 20:00
David Crone and the art of slow accumulationA retrospective of one of Ireland’s best living painters shows he is still innovatingTue Nov 29 2016 - 06:00
Charles Tyrrell blends wood and metal to beautiful effectAmorphous shapes and passages dominate, while Felim Egan tests new watersTue Nov 22 2016 - 06:00
Michael Kane: A fierce integrity to be applaudedReading, writing and publishing have been significant areas of endeavour, not distinct from printmaking and painting, but all facets of one imagination, one sensibilityTue Nov 15 2016 - 06:00
Behan sculpts a Rising vision; McKeever colours in nature au naturelReview: John Behan at the Solomon and Marion McKeever at the Assembly HouseTue Nov 08 2016 - 06:00
Fathers and son in the frame: two Coyles and the Yeats patriarch impressJohn and Gary Coyle share hints of discord; John Butler Yeats demands close viewingTue Nov 01 2016 - 06:00
How great thou art: Facebook embraces Irish creativityDublin HQ of the social media giant is a hotbed of artistic activity and dynamismFri Oct 28 2016 - 13:19
Lucian Freud: important retrospective comes to ImmaThe 50 pieces in Freud Project are invaluable opportunity to assess British painter’s workWed Oct 26 2016 - 00:00
Hong Ling: retrospective of a great living Chinese artistHuangshan region and landscape informs Hong Ling’s workTue Oct 25 2016 - 06:00
In debt to Constable: Graham Crowley’s magic modern artArtists’s response to ‘The Hay Wain’ is not nostalgia but modernity. Plus Stephen Loughman is inspired by WI postcards and Brian Fay explores time and changeTue Oct 18 2016 - 06:00
If the Ground Should Open... review: Anglo Tapes loom largeInstallation focuses on women of Rising and corporate Ireland greed 100 years laterTue Oct 11 2016 - 06:00
Great moments in Irish history captured on the canvasA new exhibition at the National Gallery shows Ireland’s history in 55 paintings, and reveals a few secrets if you look carefullyFri Oct 07 2016 - 18:30
A mission to bring Irish art to the wider worldMother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairsTue Oct 04 2016 - 06:00
Clay as material and strange contraptionsVanessa Donoso López and Paul Gregg offer intriguing and conceptual artistic visionsTue Sept 27 2016 - 06:00
Paintings of ferocious engagementTwo Irish artists impress in iconoclastic paintings and a 1916-related video installationTue Sept 20 2016 - 06:00
Visual Art: David Hockney’s Belfast show is modest in scale but ambitious in scopeMAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawingTue Sept 13 2016 - 06:00
People in the picture: ‘We are all part of the human comedy’Photographer Alec Soth, who was a painfully shy teenager, has gone on to produce one of the most socially engaged bodies of work in existenceTue Sept 06 2016 - 01:00
The Lalor print collection gets a rare run-out at the National GalleryYou are unlikely to see so much of this collection again, so make a point of visiting. Plus: a new show by painter Ian Cumberland is unsettling and compellingTue Aug 30 2016 - 01:00
Paul Doran in Dublin: You won't see a livelier display of painting all yearPlus: Finnish women let us into their lives with humourTue Aug 23 2016 - 06:00
A chance to see through Michael Snow’s influential eyesThe Canadian artist sets his sights on Kilkenny; and Damien Flood is like a Miró in Dún LaoghaireTue Aug 16 2016 - 01:00
A remote part of Norway where life is kept frozenArtist Michael John Whelan is continuously drawn to the world’s most northerly settlement of more than 1,000 peopleTue Aug 09 2016 - 06:00
Five-star review: Domesticity rendered wonderfully weirdIn Aideen Barry’s work divisions between human, animal, automaton and mechanical devices blurTue Aug 02 2016 - 01:00
The tricky ethics of painting human sufferingBrian Maguire’s paintings try to address the experiences of society’s outsidersTue Jul 26 2016 - 01:00
Edges and angst under the surface in HowthUna Sealy couldn’t wait to escape Howth. What went wrong?Mon Jul 25 2016 - 06:00
